Bricks For A Barbecue

The taste of barbecued meat on a hot summer’s day is a taste to die for, the smell of the barbecue is enough to make your mouth water and it feels great to cook your meat in a similar way to how the caveman did. However, why not build your own brick barbecue instead of going to the garden centre for an expensive barbecue. All you’ll need to make your stylish brick barbecue is some bricks for your barbecue, sand and cement, spirit level and trowel, paving slab and a barbecue grill set.

When choosing the bricks for a barbecue consider how often you are going to use, if you’re going to use it every now and again then normal bricks are fine, you could even choose bricks for your barbecue that match the bricks of your home and garden? However if the brick barbecue is going to be used regularly, such as in a pub beer garden then you will need to use fire bricks or ‘engineering bricks’ that you will need to glue together with a very strong sand and cement mix. Ordinary bricks are made of clay fired to high temperatures so they will be able to withstand a bit of extra heat every now and again.

The team at Brick Hunter can help find the bricks for your barbecue, whether you are going for fire bricks or you would like to choose bricks for the barbecue that match your home. The best time to build you barbecue is mid-late spring so speak to the guys at Brick Hunter early spring to ensure you get the right bricks for the barbecue.

When building your brick barbecue make sure you create a ledge for the charcoal tray by turning the bricks side on seven bricks up on the left hand inner wall. You will also need to create a flush edge using half a brick on the outer edge. After adding another three levels of bricks put in another ledge for supporting the grill tray.

Placing a large paving slab on top of a separate wall can work really as a handy barbecue work surface where you can put your uncooked meat ready to cook, or lay out the cooked food ready to be eaten.

It’s a really good idea to work out the most comfortable and practical heights for the grill before you start building your brick barbecue.