Gisselle O'brien
Your home’s backyard offers all kinds of potential. With some work, you can turn your backyard into a favourite gathering space or a private retreat where you go to relax and recharge after a long day. It will encourage you to get outdoors more and there’s every chance that it will also increase the value of your home!
OK, this is not an over-the-weekend project… it’s going to take a couple of hard weekends to complete. Instead of hiring a contractor to build this backyard barbecue, doing it yourself can save you a lot on costs. Aside from not having to spend on labour, you can look for used/reclaimed building materials for more savings!
Now how about putting your building skills into serious practice for the next couple of weekends? Click on any image to start the lightbox display.
The building process of a DIY backyard barbecue Dig and level the patch of ground where your backyard barbecue will sit.
It would be easiest to rent/borrow a cement mixer because we will be mixing a lot of them for this backyard barbecue project. The first thing to do is to use some cement epoxy to embed the rebar securely into the concrete foundation.
Dig a deep hole that is a bit larger than the barrel that you have. Drill many holes into the barrel, and put the drain pipes through the lid. Put the barrel into the hole and fill it with coarse gravel.
The barrel and drain pipes will be buried, since the area behind the backyard barbecue will be back-filled with dirt.
Lay the next few courses of blocks, leaving an opening for doors in the front. Lay them according to the pictures below, and use a brace to hold up that middle brick above the door.
