How to equip a barbecue area in the country with your own hands

Barbecue area is a place not only for cooking your favorite dishes, but also a corner for a pleasant stay, it will be just super if you arrange such a “corner of peace of mind” in your country house! Here you can sit in a cool shade, breathe in country air, and not be in stuffy rooms or steam around the stove. Based on this, we can conclude that the barbecue area for the summer period can become as necessary as the country house itself. To make this corner of the suburban area multifunctional, you need to arrange it under the roof. This place can be a gazebo, a terrace or a patio built over a barbecue oven. By arranging a recreation area with a barbecue under the roof, you can solve several problems of country life at once.

Photo of an excellent barbecue area in the country

Photo of an excellent barbecue area in the country

  • It will be possible to cook your favorite dishes in the fresh air every day if functions such as a stove, a cauldron, an oven, a grill, and, of course, a barbecue grate are built into the oven.
  • Such a site, no matter where in the site it is neither was, will become a favorite place to spend time in the daytime and in the evening. Under the roof, you can set the table, hold lunch and dinner here, have tea parties or just sit with your favorite book, hiding from the summer heat.
  • A barbecue oven installed under the roof will remain unchanged for many years, as it will not be afraid of rain or snow.

By arranging a multifunctional barbecue area, the family will receive a wonderful vacation spot that is in demand daily.

Choosing the perfect place in the country for a barbecue area

Of course, this great creative work must begin with the choice of a place. It should be a cozy corner, located near the water supply, but not having tall trees with spreading crowns. Water next to the recreation area is simply necessary, since, cooking food, you need to wash your hands and utensils frequently. The gazebo must be at some distance away from the house to prevent smoke in the rooms. However, the recreation area should not be located in the farthest corner of the site, since have to walk through the entire territory for what is accidentally forgotten in the house.

One of the cottage projects

When a place for a barbecue is found and marked out, it is necessary to create a diagram of how the resting place will look like, inscribed in the garden landscape and adapted to the selected plot.

Approximate diagram of a barbecue area for a summer residence

Approximate diagram of a barbecue area for a summer residence

  • The project must be thought out very carefully, and it is advisable to immediately put down the approximate dimensions of the furnace, related outbuildings, the height of the roof and chimney.
  • Do not forget that during cooking, everything you need should be near the chef, so you need to plan at least a minimum of shelves and cabinets where you can store dishes and others barbecue accessories and others dishes.
  • The best option would be to run water into the gazebo and place the sink next to the cutting table.Having arranged everything in this way, you will be convinced more than once of the convenience and comfort of such a solution.
  • It will also be important to conduct electricity to the recreation area. It will allow you to be in the gazebo at any time of the day, and will also make it possible to install some household appliances in it.
  • Having created a sketch of a gazebo, you should not rush to arrange at the construction site for her floors. First of all have to make fundament dli oven.
  • It is also necessary to find a suitable masonry-ordering scheme, according to which stove-makers erect similar structures.
One of the simple masonry schemes

One of the simple masonry schemes

  • If you are thinking of a conventional barbecue oven without a hob and oven, fit simple circuit.
You can choose a more complex scheme

You can choose a more complex scheme

  • If you want to equip the building with additional functions, then the scheme will be more complicated, since the removal of smoke from the hob or oven must be combined with the chimney of the barbecue oven.

We equip the barbecue area in the country with additional options

As stated above, in ovens additional functions can be arranged, which, if desired, can be attached. For example, an oven, stove, grill and smokehouse will help diversify the diet of holidays and weekdays. Especially since so you can save a lot on electricity, because they only need firewood to work.

Stove with a cauldron

Barbecue + stove + cauldron + water = great solution

Barbecue + stove + cauldron + water = great solution

In the summer, you want to spend as much time as possible in the fresh air, and not stand by the stove in the kitchen. It is the barbecue oven that will provide this opportunity. Being in the recreation area, you can combine business with pleasure. Having arranged a hob with a panel for a cauldron next to the barbecue, you can cook pilaf, which surpass to taste the same dish cooked on a gas or electric stove.By closing the opening for the cauldron, you can cook any soups or main dishes on such a hob.

Barbecue with grill

An integral part of the recreation area, of course, is the brazier, which will help you cook your favorite delicacies. For example, on a special lattice it is easy to fry meat, fish or sausages, as well as prepare a side dish of roasted vegetables for them.

Arrange a spit for the grill - quite affordable

Arrange a spit for the grill - quite affordable

Grill, of course optional an attribute for the oven, but lovers of such dishes prefer to arrange it. Why not add a brazier with such a useful device, especially since make it completely not difficult, even in the already built furnace. To do this, in the side walls of the brazier, one hole is made at the same height, about 2030 cm from gratingsFurther they are cultivated with metal inserts. A skewer with a handle is passed through these holes. and a grill appears in the brazier. By strung on it, you can cook large pieces of meat or fish, as well as vegetables.

Smoke chest

The smokehouse device does not hurt at all if her add to the barbecue complex. The smoke passing through the smokehouse can be diverted into the common brazier pipe, and the her can be attached to the free outer wall of the barbecue, Maybe, even the back. Smoked meats are the favorite dishes of almost all gourmets, but quality products of this type are difficult to find on sale, as many manufacturers do not bother to cook smoked products in real smokehouses, but use the newfangled “liquid smoke” tool, which is not at all good for health. Having your own smokehouse, you can proudly and without fear treat your guests with real smoked delicacies.

oven

Every housewife knows what an oven is in the kitchen this is a great range baked goodies and numerous stewed dishes.

What hostess would refuse such an oven?

What hostess would refuse such an oven?

If you decide to add an oven to the complex, then you need to choose the oven scheme with this element, since it will be somewhat different and more complex, unlike a simple barbecue oven. Starting the construction of a recreation area and choosing a building scheme, you can arrange all of the listed functions in a complex or select only those that are most preferable.

How many materials do you need for this?

Having selected the desired scheme for building a furnace and having a sketch of a planned resting place, you can purchase the necessary materials. The standard list of what you might need looks something like this.

  • Fireclay white brick for laying a firebox or fireboxes, if you plan to install a cooking stove.
  • Refractory red brick for the main masonry.
  • Sand, cement, clay these materials will depend on which masonry mortar is chosen.
  • Lumber for foundation formwork and gazebo construction. This material must be calculated, based on your diagram, in height, width and additional decorative elements.
  • Metal corner.
  • Cutting surfaces for tables.
  • Decorative material for finishing the walls of the furnace, if it is provided.
  • Two grates for fireboxes.
  • Oven, hob, doors.

Other materials may be needed - it all depends on the complexity of the design.

Foundation pouring

Such an oven is enough heavy and a massive structure, so for him have to build a separate foundation. Its size and shape will depend on which oven model is chosen.

Fundamentals - a reliable foundation

Fundamentals - a reliable foundation

  • The first thing to do this is to mark the foundation at the site of its device.
  • Further a pit is dug, which can be from 35 to 50 centimeters deep. If the soil puffy, then the pit should be deeper.
  • At the bottom of the pit, a pillow of sand is poured, about 10 centimeters thick, then her watered and well tamped.
  • next step goes installation of formwork from boards.
  • A metal mesh is installed on top of the sand pillow it reinforces the concrete solution well.
  • Further poured sand-cement solution, in a ratio of three to one.
  • Before start laying the walls of the furnace, the foundation must be allowed to set well and settle (about 23 weeks).
  • While the concrete of the foundation hardens, it is possible, not losing time, arrange the floor in the gazebo, by bypreviously marked marks.

The process of laying a barbecue oven

After the foundation is completely set and the flooring of the gazebo is set, you can begin to build the walls of the furnace. They are satisfied, strictly following the scheme you have chosen. To the work was definitely successful, fold several rows or the entire structure without the use of mortar. By following this process, you will be able to understand the structure of each row, and if you decide to arrange a hob, then without pre-laying dry generally will be difficult to manage. Perhaps problems may arise during the construction of the chimney there goes stepped complex masonry. That's why, it may make sense to give preference to a metal chimney.

We must build a gazebo around the stove

A patio or gazebo is built around the built oven.The pipe must pass between the roof rafters and rise above the roof plane by at least 50 centimeters. When the pipe passes through the roof, her it is necessary to insulate with non-combustible material, and arrange waterproofing from above around the entire perimeter of the chimney. A metal one is put on top of it. umbrella, which will not allow hit inside furnace mud and water, which will keep its interior from destruction. Patio this is a platform with a roof raised on pillars, in another way it can be called a canopy. This building does not have a fence and this differs from the gazebo. It's fashionable to date The design is convenient precisely because of its openness and free air circulation. The gazebo, on the other hand, has a fence of different heights, which protects the enclosed space from being hit inside precipitation, dust and dirt. There are gazebos diverse forms and may have different roof. Her design and design is chosen to the taste of the owner of the cottage.

Design solutions for the recreation area

Barbecue area under a light blue roof

Barbecue area under a light blue roof

An interesting solution for a recreation area under a kind of patio, the roof of which is made of blue polycarbonate. On the given the area feels spacious, there is no stiffness, which gives fencing. Barbecue oven in selected designno no protrudes to the fore, but, as it were, is the completion of the overall composition. Floor on site lined with ceramic tiles and attaches place accuracy and harmony. Massive wooden furniture echoes the texture of the material with a bench installed along the path leading to the garden, which, as it were, is a continuation of the recreation area.

Very compact but functional barbeque without a roof

Very compact but functional barbeque without a roof

This stove option is for those who do not want to wait and make efforts to build a massive brick structure. A similar model of the furnace can be bought ready-made and only prepared and issued for her place. In this case her placed on a wooden terrace, where it fits well into the environment and looks great against the backdrop of an alpine hill and an artificial pond. The idea of ​​the designer to fit the barbecue area into the natural environment is realized perfectly. The gaze rests on the pleasant calm color of the vegetation, and there is always a freshness coming from the water.

Barbecue gazebos for summer cottages - video of finished projects

It's safe to say what the design of recreation areas is so diverse, what if desired and the availability of funds, you can find and implement the most incredible ideas and ideas. All will depend only on your imagination and courage of decisions, but you need to think over everything in advance in such a way that this place is conducive to physical and psychological rest.



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