How to build a gazebo with a brick brazier with your own hands

Brazier is the simplest charcoal brazier. Shish kebabs, fish, vegetables are cooked in it. Most often, such structures are made of iron. However, in summer cottages, a more interesting option is increasingly found - a gazebo with a brick barbecue.

Advantages and disadvantages of brick structures

The brick structure has a number of advantages.

• Durability - an open or closed brick pavilion will last much longer than a building made of boards, timber or polycarbonate.
• High strength - the gazebo is not afraid of the strongest winds and mechanical damage.
• The stone accumulates heat, so it is cozy in such a structure in wet autumn and cool in hot summer.
• It is much easier to supplement a brick gazebo with a variety of devices: brazier, barbecue, Russian stove. Here you can equip an open summer kitchen. And if you glaze and insulate the building, you can turn it into a full-fledged guest house.

Disadvantages:

• A brick structure, even open, weighs a lot. It is required to build at least a shallow foundation.
• Construction takes a lot of time. To lay bricks correctly, you need high qualifications.

A brick gazebo with a barbecue or barbecue is much more expensive than a wooden structure with a brick stove.

Types of designs of brick braziers

You can equip a brazier in any building, both closed and open. However, the design of the brazier itself may vary.

• Option without a foundation - the brazier is assembled with your own hands on a flat area. It consists of 3 brick walls in 1 row with protrusions for a brazier, more precisely, a metal box with coals, and under a pair of grates of different sizes. Meat is fried on the bottom, vegetables or seafood on the top. Sometimes a barbecue is supplemented with a small compartment with a countertop so that there is a place to leave semi-finished products and ready-made meals. Firewood is stored under the brazier in the resulting niche.
• The classic barbecue grill is somewhat more complicated. In this model, the brazier is a brick niche of complex shape - with a cap, and closed on three sides. Sometimes even with an additional sill in front of the camera to create a semblance of a depression. The brazier is placed on a stone pedestal. This option is equipped with a chimney - brick or metal.
• Brick barbecue - in fact, this is the same grill, but supplemented by a stationary grill grate. In a "clean" barbecue usually there are only protrusions for skewers.
• The stove complex replaces the summer kitchen. This design is multifunctional and includes a classic Russian oven in which you can cook bread, a hob, a grill with or without grills, and sometimes even a built-in cauldron and smokehouse.

The stove complex occupies a large area and is necessarily complemented by countertops, niches for storing firewood, and sometimes even a washbasin.

Gazebo projects

A brick gazebo with barbecue or barbecue can have a very different design and appearance. The presence of a brazier has little effect on the type of pavilion. The only requirement: under the classic stone barbecue you need to equip the foundation.

Brick projects can be implemented in a variety of ways.

• Open - can consist of brick columns and a canopy. Moreover, here you can install not only a brazier, but also a fireplace. However, to service the latter, you will need to build a separate foundation. The open gazebos are very picturesque. It is easier to fit them into the landscape, to decorate with live greenery. However, such a pavilion does not protect against strong wind and rain. Therefore, time is spent here only in clear weather.
• Semi-open - assumes the presence of at least 1 blank wall and brick partitions. Usually the brazier is attached to a blank partition. The gazebo is built so that the wall serves as protection from the wind. It also prevents rain from entering.
• Closed - can do without a blank wall. However, all the window openings in it are glazed, and the doorway is closed by a sash. In such a building, you can not be afraid of wind, rain and snow. The pavilion can be insulated and used even in winter. This option is most often equipped with a fireplace to admire the flame.

The brazier does not affect the configuration of the gazebo in any way. Usually the pavilion has a square or rectangular shape, since it is easier to mount a roof here. But there are also more complex shapes: hexagonal, irregular.

How to arrange a brick brazier in a gazebo

Since such a structure is equipped with a chimney, the choice of location is small. You can install the device in the center or near the wall.

1. In the center of the gazebo - this is how a small brazier is placed, often with a double-sided firebox. You can approach it from both sides, and place a bench near the back and warm yourself on a cool evening. The advantage of this solution: the grill is protected from wind and rain, even in an open gazebo.
2. The lateral arrangement is much more common, since in this case most of the area is free. If we are talking about a furnace complex, it cannot be placed in the center.

If 2 structures are being built - a brazier and a fireplace, they are installed further from each other, dividing the pavilion into a kitchen and a guest area.

Tools and materials

For a gazebo with a brick barbecue area, the following materials and tools are needed:

• clay red brick for a brazier;
• fireclay brick, if a more complex firebox is equipped or the complex includes a combustion chamber;
• quarry, silicate brick for the pedestal, if a simple brazier is being built;
• crushed stone, sand, cement or concrete for the foundation;
• reinforcing mesh, metal valves, corners, doors, grilles;
• trowel, spatula;
• shovel, buckets and trough;
• plumb line, building level;
• circular saw or grinder with a stone disc.

Additional materials may be needed, depending on the type of construction chosen, for example, grate, stone for the countertop.

How to make a brick brazier in a gazebo

Gazebos for summer cottages with a barbecue or barbecue made of bricks are quite complex buildings. The design includes a detailed drawing of the structure, the layout of the elements - not only the stove, but also the fireplace, chimney, table with bench, communications. The order for the barbecue is calculated independently or using a ready-made scheme. In this case, the dimensions of the structure can be changed, but the proportions must be observed exactly.

Arrange a barbecue during the construction of the gazebo. However, you can add the oven later.

Foundation

A brick grill, and even more so a stove complex, weighs a lot. Such structures are placed on their own slab foundation, independent of the base of the gazebo. Step-by-step instructions are standard.

1. Dig a hole for the stove. The depth is not more than 30 cm, the width and length exceed the dimensions of the brazier around the perimeter by 15–20 cm.
2. A sand cushion is tamped to the bottom. 10 cm thick, and 5 cm of crushed stone.
3. Equip the formwork. It should rise 10 cm above ground level. If necessary, fit reinforcement.
4. The foundation is poured with concrete.
5. The substrate should dry for 3-4 weeks. Periodically, the concrete surface is moistened with water.

After complete drying, waterproofing is performed: 2-3 layers of roofing material are laid.

Furnace masonry

The brazier construction consists of 2 stages. First, the base is erected. It can be just brick columns, but more often they lay out a kind of niche of 3 walls, and then store firewood in it. The height of the pedestal depends on the furnace design. When laying walls, each 3rd row is reinforced with reinforcing bars. This part of the furnace can be built from any brick, even cinder blocks and silicate.

The step-by-step instructions for laying out the barbecue are somewhat more complicated.

1. The sides of the brazier are placed on the base. It is made from a reinforced concrete slab or, which is simpler, from a metal profile.
2. In the last 2 rows of the pedestal, a solid steel sheet is fixed or the lintels are cut out of the rolled metal and rest them on the side walls. It is impossible to brick the sheet.
3. A fireclay brick is placed on the lintels or sheet.
4. According to the order, constructs the walls of the brazier. The outer row of the case is laid out of red brick, the inner row is chamotte.
5. A side of 2 rows is placed on the front side of the brazier - it serves as a stand for skewers.
6. The walls are raised from 12 to 25 rows. Then the firebox is closed, reducing the size of the upper opening in each row. In this way, a hood is obtained and gradually come out to the chimney.
7. To improve traction, a tooth is mounted in front of the chimney. This is a brick ledge that is formed on the back walls of the hood.
8. A chimney is being built. A cleaning hole is laid over the hood and equipped with a valve.

The chimney height reaches at least 2.2 m above ground level. It is recommended to block the pipe with a spark arrester. You can install a metal chimney and bring it to the roof of the gazebo.

Fire safety measures during operation

A brick barbecue in a closed or open gazebo must be used, observing certain rules.

• Wooden benches and sofas should not be placed near the brazier.
• When removing the chimney, the place of contact with the roof is insulated with an asbestos sheet. If the chimney is metal, put a capsule with a waterproofing non-combustible material.
• It is not recommended to lay a wooden floor in such a gazebo. Sparks from the firebox can hit the deck and cause a fire.
• Fire can be prevented by covering the floor around the stove with iron or asbestos sheets.

Not far from the gazebo, you need to put a fire shield and keep a container with sand.