How beautiful warm summer evenings are! The company of relatives and friends, the quiet crackle of burning coals and the intoxicating aroma of baked meat make the rest unforgettable. Barbecue is a quick, convenient and fun process if you have a brick oven. It is quite possible to build such an oven yourself. Just need to know some of the nuances.
To build a brick barbecue yourself, tools and building materials must be available. First, you should make a drawing that will help you correctly make the design and calculate the amount of materials needed as accurately as possible.
Brick barbecue ovens should be of a convenient height (the best option is 10 brick rows from the ground), stable and reliable. When designing, it should be taken into account that the grate must be protected from the wind when cooking.
Do not place a brick barbecue near buildings, trees, wooden fences and other wooden elements.
The simplest brick barbecue looks like a U-shaped structure with a height of about 1 meter. Parallel walls are erected, two lattices are fixed inside, the distance betweenwhich is approximately 20 cm. The lower grate is for coal, the upper one is for cooking.
Brick barbecue stoves, made in the style of fireplaces, with cone-shaped add-ons and an exhaust pipe look more complex and perfect. The most important element in such a stationary barbecue is the base. It may be in the form of a slab of concrete approximately 10 cm thick, on a bed of sand and gravel.
When building a brick barbecue, you should provide a place in which coal will be stored, a cabinet for storing kitchen utensils and other additional items (at your discretion). It is advisable to lay out the walls surrounding the barbecue with refractory bricks. It is better if the metal grill is solid.
More comfortable to relax will be a variety of pavilions with a brick barbecue. They fit perfectly into the landscape of any site and can be made of wood or brick, the structure can be either permanent or temporary.
The use of bricks in the construction of the gazebo eliminates the possibility of fire if burning coals fall on the floor, ceiling or walls. In addition, brick is a durable material, respectively, and structures made of it will not require repairs for a long time. Such a resting place is an excellent protection against adverse environmental factors (snow, hail, rain, wind). In such a gazebo, you can safely relax even in severe frosts.
Based on the characteristics described above, you can makethe conclusion is that gazebos with brick barbecues are full-fledged capital buildings. Their only drawback is the mandatory presence of a solid foundation.
The ideal option for a garden gazebo would be a multi-material design. Their combination will make the building as reliable and stable as possible, spending a minimum of time on its construction.
