How to Build a Fire Pit For Garden Waste?

Learning how to build a top garden fire pit for garden waste can be both challenging and rewarding. Once you have the basics of construction down you can move on to planning the layout of your pit. It can be easy to think that fire pits are just large fireplaces with open sides, but they can also be quite useful in other ways. Consider how you might use fire pits in the winter to help you stay warm. You may even find you can set one up in your garden shed or garage. Here's how.

Think about how you can use fire pits in the winter. Instead of warming up a room by burning wood, the flames from a fire can draw the warm air in and melt the snow around your fire. If your fire pit is dug into a hillside, this can be especially useful in the winter.

But you don't need a hillside for your fire pit. If you live where it snows, there is no excuse not to have a nice comfortable spot for burning garden waste in the winter. Dig a hole a few feet deep and then place a pile of bricks or stones in the center. Place some logs on top of the fire to keep it lit. In case you have outdoor electricity, you can plug an electric fire into an extension cord and you can enjoy warm fires all winter long.

Once you have your fire pit, you will have to decide how to heat it. Most fire pits can be warmed with fire but remember that they do generate some ash and they have to be emptied periodically. If you don't want to use wood you can always use coals. Just remember that you should never have too many because you may ignite the fire.

Make sure that you keep the fire pit away from any flammable objects such as paper, dry leaves, carpet fibers and cardboard. You should also make sure that you keep the ash out of the garden. If you accidentally throw any rubbish into the fire, the heat from the fire might melt the rubbish and this can cause a fire. For this reason, it is important to keep the ash out of the fire. You should never use wood for fire pits and never try to build fires in any wooden structures such as stone or brick.