To do delicious dishes in the country, good option there will be a use of a brick barbecue. Making a structure with your own hands is quite simple.
Our article will introduce you to the principles of operation of a mini oven, you will find out what it can consist of.
Barbecue is the most popular method of cooking outdoors. This design is similar to a barbecue and has a standard device.
Barbecue specialists who have rebuilt a lot of outdoor stoves with their own hands know that a barbecue cooks food from below using smoldering coals.
The food is not fried on top. Therefore, you have to constantly turn the skewer.
With barbecue things are different. The meat is placed on the grill; the grill itself becomes slightly lower than the side walls. This is the whole essence of the work of this design. In a barbecue oven, the tray looks like a solid sheet, without grates.
While the coal is smoldering, the food is gradually fried due to reflection from the walls of the oven itself.
The walls of the barbecue are high, due to this a smoke cap is formed above the products, they are slightly smoked in it, this gives them a special aroma. If you put a piece of tough pork in such an oven, during the process of roasting in the oven it will become soft and juicy.
You might think that the height above the walls of 25 cm does not matter, but this is not the case. The culinary process is a delicate matter; food is susceptible to the slightest change in temperature.
If you pay attention, you will notice that most picnics in nature or at the dacha are not complete without a barbecue oven; the grill is not so popular. Designs brick oven There are quite a lot of options for barbecue, you can easily choose a convenient option for yourself.
How to build a barbecue yourself?
At first glance, it seems that cooking in a barbecue oven is not simple, which means that the design is complex. However, this is not true; building a stove with your own hands is quite simple.
It is those who love countryside gatherings who build stoves with their own hands. Every owner always has the materials for its construction at hand. Every man held bricks in his hands, which means that building a stove would not be difficult for him.
First, they put up brick walls, then measure out the place where the firewood tray will stand, the last step is installing a grate for food.
When building a barbecue oven, it is important to think about its appearance. A beautifully crafted design will the best decoration summer cottage plot.
If we speak in in simple language, the barbecue oven is the most primitive brickwork. They make it in the shape of the letter “P”. Such a simple structure will become excellent option outdoor cooking.
Skilled builders install mounts for skewers on the stoves; this greatly simplifies the work when frying meat; you don’t need to hold anything with your hands, just turn it over.
The barbecue oven is assembled from standard red brick, which is always available on the site. It is impossible to coat layers of brick with ordinary clay; here you need high-quality cement mortar.
At the completion of the construction of such a furnace, a pipe is always removed; it serves as an exhaust hood, a canopy from bad weather and strong winds.
If there is an exhaust hood, such a stove can easily be placed in a gazebo, on open terrace, it will not emit acrid smoke directly into your face.
Grills, barbecues – in Lately are very popular with absolutely everyone. Who doesn't love eating delicious food outdoors?
Without exception, everyone loves the taste of juicy, roasted meat. It is for such pleasure that it is worth using all your strength and experience to build such a stove. You will be proud of your invention, and also delight your loved ones with new kebab recipes.
Barbecue - this word has many meanings: a leisure event, a recipe for cooking meat, a sauce for meat, the meat itself, cooked in high temperature, but they all boil down to one thing - the result should be meat cooked over an open fire or hot coals. If there must be an open fire, then this meat will be cooked in nature, that is, the very name “barbecue” suggests relaxation - in the country, in nature, in your own garden. Today we will talk about how to build a brick grill with your own hands.
Such a stove is a stationary device, as it is built from brick. Although you can also find portable options from metal elements and details, but, undoubtedly, brick barbecue oven has a lot of advantages, because:
There are a huge number of options, designs and designs for barbecue stoves, but structurally they are divided into the following subgroups:
This is a design U-shaped made of red refractory brick with a height of at least 100 cm (see picture below). This oven, like other stationary barbecue structures, is built on a strong concrete foundation.
At a height of 0.75 m from the foundation level there are side brick steps - the bricks are laid perpendicular to the main masonry, and they are needed to install a tray for ignition and combustion of fuel. Higher in brick wall inserted (in advance drilled holes) metal guide rods, which serve to change the height of the tray in order to maintain a constant and optimal temperature for cooking meat or other products.
The combustion and cooking chamber is located in a kind of brick casing, which is formed by the side and rear walls of the barbecue, and serves to protect from the wind, as well as to accumulate and preserve heat. This barbecue scheme does not have smoke channel and an upper closed vault, which in other designs increase the efficiency of the furnace and its efficiency. 
The fuel combustion area must be equipped with fire-resistant bricks and fire-resistant cement mortar, mixed with purified sand in proportions 1:3. You can also use clay in proportions 1:3:3 (cement - sand - clay). The walls of the barbecue grill are made of ordinary red or facing bricks. By adding additional work surfaces, shelves and niches to such a simple barbecue, you can significantly expand the functionality of the structure. 
The dimensions, design and exterior of a brick barbecue depend mainly on the landscape features of the site. Based on the average height of a person during construction, the grating and working surface are arranged at a height of 9-10 bricks. All additional structures and devices must be made removable. A standard barbecue is shown in the drawing - its dimensions are 1500 x 7500 mm, detailed ordering allows construction to begin immediately after the procurement of building materials. If this drawing is too large or small, the scale can be changed while maintaining the proportions.
To build a brick barbecue you need to prepare fireclay and facing brick, as well as bulk materials for two types of mortar: clay mortar for the combustion chamber, and cement-sand mortar for the side and rear walls. You will also need:
The construction of the foundation begins with digging a trench 0.4-0.5 m deep with arranging a sand-crushed stone cushion at the bottom, which is moistened and compacted. Mounted wooden removable formwork, into which a simple reinforcement frame or mesh is laid: the rules for making the frame are the same as when building a foundation for a house.
Cement-sand mortar is prepared from bulk materials in proportions: 1 part cement, three parts sand, four parts crushed stone or gravel and four parts water. After pouring the solution, it must be covered with polyethylene or roofing felt and left for a week until it gains strength. After 7 days, the foundation is opened, the surface is covered with a layer of waterproofing (or coated with hot tar) along the width of the tape, and the laying of the first row of bricks begins.
Hot zones are laid out with fireclay bricks on clay-sand mortar, the remaining rows are laid out with ordinary bricks and mortar. All bricks must be soaked in water for 24 hours before laying.
First, a niche for fuel is opened with a shift of the next row relative to the previous one by half a brick. The height of the stove is 28 bricks, the chimney goes higher. According to the given order, the laying proceeds quickly and without delays, since the diagram for each row is fully working. To ensure minimal shrinkage, a 48-hour break is taken every 6-8 rows.
From the first to the eighth row there is a fuel compartment, in which you can also store kitchen utensils. 
The ceilings for the niche arches are lined up after the eighth row. After the ninth row, steel lintels are built in. 
By laying out the next two rows (10 and 11), a ceiling and a pedestal are formed, and iron corners or channels are built in for mounting the tabletop. 
Firebox
To arrange a semicircular vault, a plywood template is used. 
Subsequent rows must be narrowed - from rows 15 to 24 to complete the volume of the combustion chamber. The twenty-fourth row is released by ¼ to separate the border of the firebox from the chimney. The same detail serves as decor, like the release on row 12. 
The place on the site has great importance– a smoking barbecue should not disturb either residents or neighbors; the barbecue should be protected at least by trees from wind, sun and rain, therefore the choice of building materials depends on the location, and, accordingly, construction tools. Here are some simple rules:
Many portable devices have been invented for cooking meat over coals.
Mobile barbecues They cope with their task, but over time they become unusable.
On garden plots more practical to build barbecue ovens made of brick. Such complexes will last longer, and cooking food in them is more convenient.
You can build a barbecue oven yourself; you should start by studying the information on this issue. On the Internet, projects for brick barbecue complexes are presented in variety and with detailed dimensions.
Photo 1. Large barbecue complex made of bricks under open air. It is made of bricks in the yard country house and includes several modules.
Furnace complex consists of so-called modules that have certain functionality.
It can include no more than three modules with combustion chambers:
With this design it is ensured good traction and does not require significant magnification chimney pipes. There may be several modules without combustion chambers.
Barbecue grill is the central part of the complex, as it requires direct-flow, smoke draft. This is a small structure with a foundation area no more than 1 square meter. The height reaches two meters. The pipe for the complex is calculated individually and depends on the number of modules with combustion chambers.
Furnace module- maybe with hob and with a baking chamber. The area of such a furnace is no more than one square meter. The height does not exceed the dimensions of the central module.
Module with smoking cabinet- has a similar design to the baking cabinet. Depending on the required technology, part of the smoke is passed through the smoking chamber.
Modules without combustion chambers. For ease of operation of the barbecue complex, a washing And table top. This is a supporting frame made of bricks on which a horizontal surface is installed.
At self-construction barbecue can save a significant amount of money required to hire specialists. But in addition to saving money, you should remember the risks that arise.
For example, about errors in compliance construction technologies and design. To prevent them, you should take a responsible approach to choosing a project and its implementation.
The design should not be complicated, but have the necessary functionality. The simpler the project, the easier it is to implement. Also, when choosing a project, you should take into account the characteristics of the construction site and operating conditions. It is advisable to have a clear example of the implementation of the selected furnace.
Another disadvantage of self-construction is the time costs. In the absence of any practice in this area, building a barbecue will take more time than specialists.
Advice. Construction of this complex should begin at the beginning of the warm season.
Let's consider sequentially all the stages that include the construction of a barbecue complex, no matter what size it is.
The construction of a barbecue oven complex begins with the selection of a project. The most popular barbecue complex projects are the following options. We draw the reader’s attention in advance to the fact that no matter what brick barbecue complex you choose, the order of the masonry attached to the drawing will be very useful when bringing the project to life.
This street furnace complex consists of two modules with two combustion chambers. Can be done with either external finishing, and without it. The complex has size from 1.5 to 2 meters in length. The height starts from two meters excluding the pipe. The foundation will require approximately two square meters of area.
The central part of the complex is barbecue grill, and at the edges are located oven for cauldron And oven with oven. The chimneys of adjacent modules are led into the central pipe. This design has a length minimum 2.5 meters. The height of the barbecue complex starts from two meters, excluding the pipe. The area of the foundation is three square meters.
Such a complex can be built in summer kitchens and capital buildings. The heat output from the stoves is enough to heat a small room.
Photo 2. Big brick barbecue a complex with several ovens, a hob and a sink. It was built on a covered space summer gazebo.
Body length starts from 3.5 meters. The height reaches two meters excluding the pipe. This complex has three combustion chambers and a chimney system similar to the previous project. The foundation requires four square meters of area. In the center, the structure has a barbecue grill and ovens along the edges. Modules with a countertop and sink can be positioned at an angle relative to the main body.
If you have chosen such a complex project with many modules and are building a barbecue complex with a smokehouse, barbecue and cauldron, the order (that is, detailed diagram brick laying) will not only be useful, but also necessary.
The next stages of construction are considered using the example of the project “Barbecue - barbecue with a stove under a cauldron.”
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The site for the construction of a barbecue complex must meet the following criteria:
In order to build a barbecue complex you will need the following building materials:
Attention! All of the above components (hardware) must be purchased before starting work, as they are installed during the construction process.
In order to build oven barbecue complex, no complex specialized tools are required. Everything you need can be bought at a hardware store:
After the material has been purchased and the tool has been prepared, you can begin pouring the foundation.
Photo 3. Hexagonal foundation. On this basis you can place a barbecue complex original design.
Attention! When installing the formwork, internal sides It is recommended to line the sides with plastic film. This will allow you to quickly and accurately separate the boards from the concrete when dismantling them.
After the work has been done, the foundation should stand approximately 10-15 days. Then construction can begin. The formwork can be dismantled on the third day.
Important! If during the construction of the foundation it prevails hot weather, it is necessary to wet the foundation once twice a day cold water. This is done to prevent premature evaporation of moisture.
Let's take a closer look at how brick laying is done.
Attention! Fire-resistant insulation should be laid between the combustion chamber and the walls of the supporting structure of the furnace. Its presence will prevent premature cooling of the furnace and will allow the combustion chamber to expand when heated.
Important! After the main structure is built, it is recommended to check the draft in the furnace complex. To do this, newsprint is ignited in combustion chambers. This must be done before the solution has time to gain strength. In this case, if errors are detected, it will be possible to disassemble the structure for correction.
The oven can be used for approximately after 10 days.
Before starting operation, it is advisable heat it several times oven in "gentle" mode. A only then heat with wood until “white coals”.
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While the structure is gaining strength, it’s time to purchase additional accessories:
Grill racks and skewers, skewers, metal brushes, cauldrons, pokers, and firewood.
Photo 4. Electric lanterns illuminating a brick barbecue complex in the evening. Using your imagination, you can create lighting such original look.
In order to use the barbecue oven complex at night, you can install electricity. To do this you will need:
The variety of options for furnace complexes is very large. And, if you are going to build a brick barbecue complex on your site, drawings and photographs of existing projects will help you decide what kind of structure you would like to see in the end. We have selected several successful samples for you.
Photo 5. Drawing of the furnace complex indicating the modules included in it. When you build a barbecue complex with detailed drawings in hand, the job goes faster and smoother.
Photo 6. Computer model barbecue complex of original design. Such a project will not only be compactly placed in a gazebo or on a terrace, but will also become a decoration of a country house.
Photo 7. A complex kiln complex, the center of which was an unusually large open kiln.
Photo 8. Compact brick barbecue complex, which can accommodate several ovens,
Photo 9. Furnace structure with unusual design and brick colors. Decoration garden territory Even such functional objects as brick barbecue complexes can become: the photo demonstrates this perfectly.
It is necessary to clearly understand what stages of work you will have to go through in order to build a barbecue complex on your site. To do this, we suggest watching this video. In the form of a slide show, it displays the main stages of construction.
reader.Correct masonry Brick stoves are not only an architectural balance that preserves the durability of the structure, but also a guarantee of functional benefit and safety during operation. Setting up a barbecue is necessary even to an experienced master. Knowing each brick row with a given number of elements and exact location gives an invaluable effect in the speed of doing the work with your own hands and a high-quality result.
The term “order” characterizes two construction concepts, used in one architectural field - bricklaying. It is this division that sometimes confuses a novice stove maker. It is important to keep ready both definitions, which by their name provide not only control of the masonry in rows, but also the order in which the masonry is executed.
If there is not enough time to build a stove, we recommend contacting the company: “Fireplace Ochag”.
The original professional word “ordering” describes the elementary device necessary to control the height and horizontality of each row of bricks.
The device consists of two vertical slats 1.5-2 m high, fixed on opposite sides of one wall to the bottom rows with two brackets each. The latter are used to safely connect the lath without bolts, so as not to “injure” the fresh brickwork.
The minimum number of tiers that allows you to establish an order is 2. Since the masonry is done with your own hands in a checkerboard pattern, one bracket engages with the brick of the first row on one side of the masonry, and the second with the element above, but on the adjacent side - this is the same for both racks. The cross-section of the ordering strip is not specified: the thickness must be such as to withstand the tension between the two parts of the installation. As a rule, 50×50 bars are chosen.
Control is carried out by applying notches to the row every 77 mm in height. These intervals require the greatest possible accuracy, since the construction balance of the masonry depends on them. If on one rail at least one of the intervals differs by 1 or 2 mm from the opposite side, the horizontality will be disrupted. The distance 77 mm consists of the height of the brick and the thickness of the connecting seam: 65+12 mm.
A cord called a mooring is stretched from notch to notch. It allows you to track the accuracy of the laying of each brick in a row. If the first tiers were folded using a level, the pier serves them in the next stages. A tension bolt is provided at the place where the bracket is attached, either in row or nearby. It is enough to screw it in on one side, and the mooring can be completely straightened between the bars. Stretching the cord is extremely important so that there is no sagging in the middle of the masonry and horizontality is most accurately tracked.
Sometimes the order is installed on three or even four brick walls. This helps to track the symmetry of sizes and angles, as well as maintain the horizontal position of the masonry on all its sides at once.
You can make the control device yourself. The device consists of simple elements that literally lie underfoot during construction work.
The difficulty lies only in ensuring the accuracy of the order itself - every millimeter and degree is important. Homemade device It will be beneficial if the work on a brick barbecue is a one-time job. For example, for your own gazebo.
The second meaning of the word “order” appeared thanks to popular vernacular. Control of the rows is no longer carried out by height and horizontality, but by quantity and location. The barbecue order is the scheme by which step by step masonry.
The drawings help both the novice stove maker and the experienced professional. equally. If the diagram will help a beginner understand the design of the stove and become useful instructions to carry out work with your own hands, then the ordering master will come in handy in the quick implementation of similar projects. Once drawn up, the drawings will serve as a multiplication table for a schoolchild - all tests are “5”, or from time to time a major barbecue with a cauldron or Russian oven.
The basis for a balanced masonry is the correct foundation. – a heavy structure, if we consider the load per unit area. In this regard, it requires a monolithic base. Sand cushion, crushed stone, reinforcement cage, quality solution cement - all this will make the foundation strong and durable, but it is equally important to take into account its balance:
Before laying refractory bricks with your own hands, you need to carefully consider the structure of the barbecue. The better presented step by step diagram, the less likely there are errors. Ordering also helps to calculate the amount of building materials in advance, draw up an estimate and purchase the required volume on time. This is an efficient approach that eliminates delays due to element shortages.
Having prepared for the work with your own hands, you can begin in a coordinated and thoughtful manner. construction process according to the scheme:
It's good if personal plot There is metal grill, but not only practicality is important for a person, they also want beauty. Functional and attractive appearance- This is a brick barbecue. There are both simple models, the manufacture of which does not require special skills, and there are very complex designs- real brick complexes that only a professional can make. It is better not to take on the construction of such structures without experience, but anyone can try to build a simple brick grill or barbecue oven.
Fireplaces, stoves and barbecues have a brick wall on the back of the brazier, which the grill does not have. It is necessary to retain heat and to reflect it onto frying food.
The design of a fireplace, stove and barbecue provides for the construction of a chimney, which allows heated air and smoke to be vented away from the cook; the grill does not have this element.
In fireplaces and stoves, the heat is located in the firebox; in the grill device there is a metal tray for this purpose.
The heat of a grill, fireplace and barbecue is retained only while the fuel is burning, and the stove can remain warm for a long time. 
Barbecues and ovens combine the function heating device with cooking, the grill is needed only for cooking, and the fireplace is exclusively a heating device.
What tools and materials will be needed to build a brick barbecue:
For brick construction, you need to choose high-quality mortars. You can use 2 options for such solutions:
Such compositions have their own disadvantages and advantages; they need to be understood in detail. Previously, only clay was used in the construction of furnaces, but it has a serious drawback. Heating structures, folded on a clay mortar, must be well protected from moisture. It cannot be used for laying bricks on a pipe; in such places, mixtures based on cement or lime are used. IN last years Fire-resistant compounds have become available and are sold dry in hardware stores. They go to work after diluting with water.
Clay is the cheapest binder that is completely environmentally safe.
For masonry, you must choose dark red clay. The quality of raw materials and the finished mixture is checked as follows:
Don’t forget that they sell formulations that are designed for different temperature conditions warming up the oven. There are mixtures intended only for laying fireboxes and there are simple compositions for constructing the walls of a fireplace or stove.
Before building a brick barbecue with your own hands, you need to calculate how much it will be needed. There are many programs designed for such calculations. You can roughly calculate the need using a pre-prepared barbecue drawing. Dimensions of standard brick:
Taking into account the design and size of the brick, a calculation is made. Instead of brick chimney You can install a tin pipe. Before work, focusing on drawings and photographs of a brick barbecue, be sure to prepare layer-by-layer sketches of the masonry. In the figure there are 28 layers of brick, 18 rows of which are the distance to the pipe and 10 rows to the lattice of the structure. Make 18 drawings and schematically mark the sequence of brick laying on them. Do not forget that the bottom brick should always be overlapped by 2 bricks on top. Also, a brick lying longitudinally must be overlapped on top by 2 transverse bricks. You can see the finished oven in the photo of a brick barbecue. 
Need to pick up comfortable spot to build a barbecue, you need to consider:
You immediately need to make markings for the foundation of the barbecue at the selected location; its dimensions must correspond to the order of the brick barbecue and take into account the masonry drawings. In addition, the dimensions depend on the layout of the site - whether there will be a gazebo being built nearby or whether a foundation needs to be made just to build a barbecue. It is best to use a slab base:
The foundation will be completely ready in three days, then the formwork can be removed.
To protect the foundation and bricks from moisture penetrating from the ground, the foundation walls must be treated with tar, and 2-3 layers of roofing material are laid on top of it. Mix the masonry mortar (recipe listed above). The first row of bricks is laid on roofing felt laid on the foundation. On rows 7 and 10, metal plates are inserted into the masonry. The sheets of metal should be narrower than the oven by ½ the length of the brick.
When laying bricks, be sure to take long breaks, which are necessary for the mortar to set, otherwise the tall structure may crawl.
Fresh mortar sags, the seams between the rows of bricks dry out and become smaller, for this reason deviations from the project are possible. It takes 2-3 days for the walls to shrink; this is affected by the ambient temperature. Self-build allows for breaks in work - this is a significant advantage over using hired builders who try to completely complete the project as quickly as possible.
Using a saw or grinder, cut off 1/2 half of the brick so that a sheet of metal can be placed in the groove made. We raise the walls further, laying bricks according to the drawings. On the 15th row, it is necessary to lay out the vault, for this they use semicircular wooden templates. A pattern of the required curvature is made from plywood, a cutting line is marked along it with a pencil and cut out with a jigsaw. Prepare the second board in the same way. To strengthen the vault template, another board is inserted between the boards and everything is connected. The ready-made template can be used. It is placed between the walls of the firebox, and the laying of bricks begins, connecting them with mortar. 
The middle brick of the vault should be located exactly in the center of the firebox opening.
For laying the firebox and barbecue pipe, it is necessary to use heat-resistant bricks.
The pipe begins to be laid from the 18th row; to reduce the width of the hole in each row of masonry, ¼ of the width of the brick is removed. Thus, 28 rows of masonry are laid out. Instead of a brick vault, you can prepare a metal box and install it into the masonry.
What you need to pay attention to:
