Has anyone put a chimenea or a fire pit on a deck? My decking is 5/4 PT pine. Wanted to see if that is possible with some mitigating construction. I’m thinking of putting down either slate, brick, or concrete pavers 3’x3′ for the elevated fire pit which is roughly 18″ in diameter. Any thoughts?
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Friend has/had a chimnera and he's had roaring fires in it with no issues of excessive heating below it or on the deck. Remember heat rises but it's also nothing to ignore.
A friend of mine also uses his chimnea on his deck. He laid down a single layer of pavers just resting on the deck and held in place with a wooden frame around them (also not fastened to the deck). Seems to work fine.
Mike Hennessy
Pittsburgh, PA
PS: It looks pretty nice, too!
Edited 10/22/2007 10:52 am ET by MikeHennessy
Our fire pit is our 5/4 deck. No problems.
Weve used firebuckets (5 gallon tar buckets) on decks while we are working for years without incident. You will get small char marks from exploding sparks if you use the wrong type of wood (pine).
To protect the decks from these marks, we typically put a 4x4 sheet of drywall or osb down, then our two concrete blocks. We set the bucket on that.
Ours is a much more primitive arrangement and if we've burned nothing down, you won't have too much to worry about as long as you burn responsibly.
jim
fka (formerly known as) blue