Charlie:
Dustin writes to us from Katy. He’s looking to build a gravel patio with a fire pit. He’s wondering what material he’d need. I’m assuming-
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Tom:
Gravel!
Charlie:
Let me make a note here. Gravel.
Tom:
For a fire pit? (Yeah) You could do a fire pit as easy as digging a hole in the ground, just dirt. Then you can get into other types of products. I don’t know how big he wants to do it. It could be metal. It could be stone. Most people, I guess, if they’re going to build a fire pit, will build it out of masonry products. The one thing you’ve got to remember, the inside of the fire pit has to be a fire brick with a fire clay. The outside, you can put stone. You can put other kinds of brick. You can do other things, but it’s the same kind of brick you use in a fireplace or in a smoker, a barbecue smoker.
Charlie:
You just pick that up at the same place you’d pick up your masonry bricks?
Tom:
Yeah, where they have bricks, they’ll have- you tell them what you’re doing and they hold up to the heat. If you take regular brick and get it really hot, it’ll crack and pop because of the oxygen in it. These are very dense, so they don’t do that and start flying around like a cow patty in a fire. You’ve never done that. We used to do that in Boy Scouts.