Making A Fire Pit With Concrete Blocks. The materials are relatively inexpensive and you can finish this project in just a few hours. Today we built a huge fire pit that's 80 inches square out of concrete block and recycled paver bricks to cap it off.

We always have way too much stuff laying around, mostly leftovers… Sand for a firm foundation. My husband chose this as a base for placing a fire, so that it had draw only the capstones have a tendancy to shift since we opted not to add concrete to keep them in place.

Contain the fire inside your pit with a screen.

Using a level, make sure the bricks are relatively even all the way around. Sand for a firm foundation. But if you're interested in something more designey uyeda cads up his desired forms and 3d prints them, then creates a mold in which he can cast inexpensive concrete. I wasn't scientific about this.