40+ Building A Fire Pit With Retaining Wall Blocks
PNG. Your fire pit will be just fine with retaining wall blocks, but once you're done building the pit, you may wish to insert a steel fire ring. Doing so will extend the life of your blocks by preventing them from drying out prematurely.

A block fire pit can be easily built with affordable utilities like cinder blocks. How to build a fire pit using retaining wall blocks. Our fire pit ended up being about 4 feet (49 inches) in diameter on the outside and 3 feet (35.5 the fire pit looks so great in the yard and from the house!

In this video i show and explain how i built my fire pit from retaining wall blocks with a galvanised round garden bed for the inner rim.

Also note that while it may be tempting incorporate river stones, it's much. A block fire pit can be easily built with affordable utilities like cinder blocks. Use 22 retaining wall blocks at $1 ea and 100lb sand. If you don't have rocks available for the ring around the fire pit, plan to buy retaining wall blocks or bricks.