How to make a barbecue with your own hands: tips from experienced craftsmen

Country and suburban areas — great place for holding holidays not only in summer, but even in winter.

Ready-made barbecue in the country

When guests gather, they always want to treat them to something tasty and exactly what everyone loves. Building a barbecue with your own hands will not take you a lot of extra time if you take it as a hobby. You can make the same beautiful gazebo with a barbecue oven, as in the photo below, while saving a huge pile of money! Read carefully and pay attention to the little details that will ultimately determine the look and feel of your BBQ space!

BBQ ovens uncomplicated in its construction, so even an inexperienced bricklayer will be able to cope with this matter if it is decided to build her right in the open. Harder to arrange her on the finished veranda or right in the house, as in these cases have to lay the foundation and run the pipe through the ceiling, roof or wall.

But there are very simple barbecue options that do not even require a solution and are assembled in half an hour. They also make a barbecue from a metal barrel, a gas cylinder or from thick sheet metal. Everyone chooses according to his taste the option that suits him to the maximum extent and in the best way. fit for a suburban area.

How to choose a barbecue option

To decide what you want to get as a result, it's best to start with a sheet of paper and a pencil and sketch out a drawing of a barbecue stove, the way you are her mentally see. When you display his presentation on paper, it will be easier for you to make a choice by searching for the most suitable project on the Internet along with a diagram of its construction. As you sketch, keep the following points in mind:

• The style in which you want to get the BBQ oven. It must match the landscape design of the site, the interior of the veranda or hall in which you want her place.
• Building size. If a bake will be quite massive, respectively, it will be necessary to arrange reliable deep foundation.
• Try right away on onthrow "fit" barbecue instead of future installation.
• You also need to consider the shape of the firebox and chimney, as they play an important role in the design of the stove.
• Immediately decide will be Is there a roof over the barbecue, like a roof must look like what  style and shape you want to get.
• Do you need additional elements for the barbecue oven: an oven, a smoker, a hob, a built-in cauldron and other devices.
• Will the building be lined with finishing materials, and how should it look like in the end.
• It is important to consider the design of the fireplace gratingsif provided.
• Will cutting tables be located nearby, a place for firewood, water and a sink, electric lighting.

Replying to these questions and showing your ideas for paper, it will be much easier to decide on the model and see her at the installation site.

Height and dimensions of structural elements

When the drawing is done, right on German can be put down sizes that will be comfortable growth hosts and will help to fit the structure well into the overall composition.

• The first thing to consider — this is the height of the brazier, the hob, if provided, and the surfaces of the cutting tables —  in order to make it convenient to make blanks and fry a barbecue or shish kebab.
• It is important to calculate the height of the arranged shelves and their number. Shelves should also be made at a height convenient for the owners.
• Further you need to determine the size of the base of the furnace and related buildings. These options will depend on the size of the area where Are you planning a barbecue?
• Next size to be determined — this is the height of the chimney to the ceiling (with an internal location) and at what level it should change its shape in the direction of narrowing.
• More one parameter that must be calculated in advance if the barbecue is installed under the finished roof — the location of the chimney so that it does not rest against the roof beam. It should be located exactly between the two beams.
• The dimensions of the furnace foundation must exceed the linear dimensions e bases on 15—20 cm each side.

Foundation

• For building light stove, without additional elements, a cemented site will be enough, and if it already exists, for example, in the gazebo or on the site, you can immediately start laying.
• If the barbecue oven is installed on an unprepared site, those. from scratch to allotted for her plot of land for building have to build a foundation.

Approximate foundation scheme

• The first thing to do when starting the construction of the foundation — is to mark the area.
• Next action — this is digging a pit under the base of the furnace. It may not be very deep, since the building is not so heavylike a heating and cooking stove. Its depth can vary from 20 to 40 cm, depending on the soil on which the structure is installed.
• Having rammed the bottom of the pit, on German arrange a sand cushion at 10—15 cm thick. On the her a small layer of rubble falls asleep, height 8—10 cm
• The formwork must be installed in such a way that it rises above the soil surface by 10—12 cm
• Further reinforcement is installed — The diagram clearly shows how to do it correctly.
• The last step goes pouring concrete mortar, with a proportion of sand and cement 3:1.
• The surface of the foundation must be well leveled, the harmony of the walls of the building will depend on this.

Barbecue step by step

An uncomplicated barbecue option with a light roof

This is one of the easiest options for a garden barbecue, it can be installed in the gazebo, under the open sky and on the terrace. In its structure there are no tricky plexuses of the internal structure, as in heating furnaces, where you need to follow a special scheme for long-term preservation. warm air inside the building.

General scheme and first rows of masonry

• The first row is laid out without openings, in compliance with the brick laying pattern.
• From the second to fourth a row of masonry goes according to the scheme.
• On the laid out fourth a row of metal strips are laid, since the next two rows will be solid.
• Further three rows are placed according to the scheme, they form shelves under the firebox.

Continuation of the order - from the seventh row and above

• Above shelves should be again stacked metal strips that will serve as the basis for the brazier panel.
• When laying out the firebox, silicate brick is used, as it is heat-resistant and withstands high temperatures. In the diagram, it is shown in a lighter color.

This is what the stove should look like

• The structure of the furnace in the figure is shown from the thirteenth to the twenty-first row.
• On the twenty-first row, a metal strip is strengthened, which will serve as a support for the front wall of the beginning chimney.
• The design of the chimney is laid out in a special way, each row is shifted inside designs on certain distance, gradually narrowing her to the shape of a pipe.
• The chimney is laid out to the height required. If the roof is arranged, then the pipe is brought to her and passes through the hole made to the outside. Waterproofing is arranged around the pipe.
• A metal umbrella is installed on top of the pipe in order to inside no rain or mud.

Such a model is available for erection even to a beginner, provided that the work is done without haste and carefully, with constant monitoring of the evenness of the walls and compliance ordinal scheme. Be sure, even if you do everything with your own hands, but check it very carefully - the result will be like that of a first-class stove-maker!

Other types of barbecue oven

There are more complex options. ovens, to the construction of which must be taken much more serious, since the scheme of such furnaces is more intricate, and requires the attachment of several parts ovens to one chimney, conducting water and electricity.

Monumental, well-thought-out barbecue oven

For example, such a model, which is thought out in every detail and finished with a decorative stone, which attaches the whole composition has a special style, reminiscent of the castles of the Middle Ages.

This is a solid and massive construction, which is not cost without a foundation, since without it the soil will simply sag under her weight.

well arranged the whole zone, where not only the stove will be safe from weather factors, but there is also a place for vacationers. Here you can put a table and even comfortable chairs to relax in the shade, enjoying the magical smells of burning firewood and cooking delicacies.

The design provides a place for a supply of fuel, water is carried out, which is convenient at atcooking, when it is often necessary to wash hands and dishes. Cutting surfaces made of stone are easy to clean and convenient for workpieces. For dishes provided bunk shelves — they can store everything you need all summer.

A good option for a veranda or terrace

This barbecue oven is builton on terrace. This is what makes it convenient, because by opening the window to the kitchen, you can get access to water and a refrigerator where food is stored. This version of the stove is in itself a decorative element of the terrace, and complements the overall atmosphere with its presence. The design is compact, but it ison on wooden floor, and therefore for her the foundation had already been laid. Generally, a good option, located in a place where rainy weather can never interfere with a holiday.

Super light BBQ

More one barbecue model, very simple and does not require much effort for its construction. Here you will need bricks, two slabs for the middle shelf and the main surface on which the barbecue grill, as well as the back wall covering the brazier.All these materials will be needed if the barbecue is permanently arranged in one place. If it is made of non-combustible materials and not done too heavy by weight, and then imitate a brickwork pattern on the surface, then this option can be installed in any convenient place in a summer cottage.

Such an oven does not require mortar laying

And here is a very simple barbecue option that can be folded for 15—30 minutes if you have all the necessary materials for it. It may have various form and if you want her can be changed every day. For its device, a solution that holds the materials together is not needed, since the bricks simply fold into certain okay.

This "work" can be done by anyone, and B-B-Q may be temporary structure, a may be arranged on a permanent basis.

To build such a barbecue you will need:

• bricks, about one hundred one hundred twenty pieces.
• metal pallet and lattice of the same size, it will determine the size of the entire structure in terms of area.
• For masonry, you can prepare the foundation, and for him it is not necessary to make a deep pit, since the structure is not very massive, but reinforcement never won't be redundant. But, in principle, such a temporary type furnace can be quickly built on a compacted piece of land.
• On the finished foundation, the brick is laid out with gaps. Need to lay out four five rows of such masonry. This process is great displayed in the figure above.
• Further a metal pallet is laid on the bricks, on which the coals will burn, so it must be made of thick metal, at least 3 mm thick.
• Then they go more two rows of bricks also with gaps between them, for the supply of oxygen to the coals, so that they burn well and evenly.
• On top of these two rows fit lattice, on which various delicacies will be fried.
• Above gratings masonry more two brick rows. Bricks in them fit as closely as possible to each other, they will serve as protection from the wind for frying products.
• If desired, such oven can be made from pre-prepared brick or stone certain forms.

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This model — exactly the option about which you can saythat it can be done quickly and at low cost.