How to make a garden barbecue oven with your own hands

Owning your own house and a spacious plot around it, you can think about a place to relax and equip a barbecue oven with your own hands on it. This multifunctional and convenient design will not only benefit, but will also be a great addition to the landscape.

There are a lot of options for erected structures, the choice between which depends on the following two factors:

• Financial opportunities - the more functional and massive the barbecue oven is, the more high-quality building materials are needed for it
• Who exactly will do the work - it will be more difficult for a simple amateur owner to build a complex and multifunctional structure in a short time than for a professional master

Options for manufacturing and laying a barbecue oven:

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Preparation for work

A barbecue is an oven that is placed outdoors and used for cooking. Despite the wide variety of models, they have one principle of operation. Combining with other stoves, you can build a structure used not only for frying kebabs on a skewer, but also in a pan, for cooking, etc.

The preparatory stage of the work can be divided into three parts:

• Design choice
• Choosing a Convenient Location

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Choosing a design

To build a simple and functional barbecue oven with their own hands, they are primarily guided by their tastes and preferences, material capabilities. If the structure will be used almost daily, one of the more solid options should be considered, including a barbecue and other frying structures, cutting tables, a place to store a bunch of firewood, etc.

Using the oven once or twice a month, it makes no sense to arrange a grandiose construction site. It is enough to build a small oven with a frying compartment.

Choosing a Convenient Location

When choosing the optimal location, it is necessary to take into account the location of trees and other vegetation on the site. There can be no branches above the stove that will quickly burn. Free space should allow organizing an adjacent recreation area.

The brick gets very hot, so the back wall should not be adjacent to other building structures. A very best option is to equip an alpine slide behind.

Procurement of materials and preparation of working tools

You can lay out a barbecue oven with your own hands from fireclay and ceramic bricks. If they are combined with each other, you should pay attention to the difference in thermal expansion, erecting sections separated from each other with them or equipping expansion joints.

The classic solution for furnaces is sand-clay. The cement-based mass will not withstand a sharp change in temperature and will begin to crack. The ratio of sand and clay is different and depends on the quality and properties of the last component. The most common mix:

• 1-2 parts sand
• 1 part clay
• 0.25-0.3 parts of water

In addition to the basic building materials, the work will require: cement and roofing material for the construction of the foundation, large stones, formwork boards, metal, working tools.

Getting Started

Building a barbecue oven with your own hands from brick is not difficult. The entire workflow is divided into three stages:

• Preparation of a drawing, sketch and calculation of the required building material, shopping for everything you need
• Building a foundation that can support the weight of a future barbecue
• Brickwork

Having completed the work, you can think about reliable protection of the structure from the vagaries of nature by constructing a small canopy.

Drawing preparation

The barbecue should be placed on a concrete base. Most designs have at least 2 compartments - a cutting table and a spacious brazier. In the first, it will be possible to embed a sink. The brazier is equipped with a pipe and a vault to prevent smoke.

The drawing must contain each of the dimensions. If something will be corrected, you need to proceed from the dimensions of the purchased brick (usually 25x12x6 cm).

Barbecue base

Before equipping the formwork for a barbecue oven with your own hands, you need to prepare the site. The dimensions of the structure are marked with ropes (plus 10-15 cm) and a layer of fertile soil is removed. If a wooden gazebo is located nearby, a concrete base 60-70 cm wide is set up in front.

The most optimal base is a reinforced monolithic slab with a thickness of more than 0.3 m. A gravel-gravel cushion (10-15 cm) is placed under it and waterproofing is installed (ordinary roofing material is spread) to prevent deforming effects in winter.

Then the formwork is made of boards, which rises about 10-15 cm above the ground. If the soil crumbles, it is installed to the full depth. After that, a reinforcing cage is made, preferably from metal 10-14 mm. The rods are laid in a grid with a cell size of 20x20 cm and tied with wire. You need two such grids: the first is placed on the bottom, the second - 5 cm below the top of the base.

The solution is prepared from frost-resistant cement grade M200 or higher. Bay and tamping with a vibrator, you must wait until the foundation is completely dry (up to 2-3 weeks). It is covered with a film and sprinkled with water on hot days. You can dismantle the boards after 5-7 days.

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Video guide for laying a garden brick barbecue oven with barbecue

Ordering and masonry scheme

Having removed the formwork and waiting for the concrete to get stronger, the most important of the stages comes - laying bricks. Markings are applied on the plate, indicating the dimensions of the future structure. You need to apply the level again and make sure that the surface is horizontal. If significant errors are found, they are eliminated.

Rows from the first to the fourth must be laid with a spoon dressing. In front of the fifth row, a 40x40 mm corner is placed on the front side - it will act as a kind of support. In order to get the bases for the pallet and the shelf, the sides of the fifth row are placed with a bond bandage.

Spoon dressing should be followed, laying rows from the sixth to the eighth. Row number nine is done similarly to the fifth, so that supports are formed under the countertop and the grate.

On this, the construction of the table can be considered completed. Further, a do-it-yourself barbecue oven will be built only from the side of the brazier. Again, with a spoon dressing, bricks are laid from the tenth to the fourteenth rows. In front of the fifteenth row, a metal corner is again placed on the front side, which acts as a support for the furnace vault. The fifteenth row is laid.

Then you need to equip a gradually tapering vault. You can make it by alternating the tychkovy and spoon ligament, gradually shifting to the center. At the sixteenth row, bonder knitting is done from the front side, spoon knitting is done on the sides. At the seventeenth - on the contrary, in the eighteenth row we change again. The resulting protrusions can be arranged according to their purpose.

From the nineteenth to the twenty-first row, lay with a spoon masonry.

The pipe begins with the twenty-second poison. In the twenty-third row, the necessary narrowing is made and the work is continued in the same sequence to the desired height. The higher, the better the traction will be.

In the penultimate row, windows are made to remove smoke. The last row will be laid completely.

Finishing work

It is necessary to mount shelves, a finishing worktop, a frying grid and a charcoal tray. The latter is made of a sheet of steel, which has bent edges. The minimum height of the board is about 5 cm.

The grate can be taken from the old oven or you can buy a new chrome model. The main thing is that it fits in size. Countertops and shelves are made of moisture resistant material.

The top of the pipe must be covered with a stainless steel roof. This will protect the smoke windows from rain. A monolithic slab is covered with tiles or porcelain stoneware to prevent moisture from penetrating inside.

Around the barbecue oven, you can equip a full-fledged gazebo, the canopy of which will cover the structure. It is very important that flammable objects and materials are located away from brick walls, which are very hot.

By welding the smoking chamber, the functionality of the furnace will expand.

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Conclusion

Building a barbecue oven with your own hands is not difficult if you plan each of the stages competently and slowly and prepare well for work. The most important of the stages is masonry. The longevity of the entire structure will depend on the quality of its implementation.