7 Porticos- Texas architecture

The other day I received an e-mail from an individual who had an interesting problem and I want to share it with you because you may of faced the exact same thing. His email was this:

We constructed a natural gas fire pit and put lots of colored glass chips in it. It works well, looks wonderful but is useless for roasting marshmallows : (.

It feels like an open flame just lights the marshmallows ... We need coals. But I don't want to put wood in and handle the ashes.

Ideas?

Thanks!

We here at Lava Rocks for Fire Pits.com never had a question or problem of this nature presented to us, but upon reflexion and talking about it with our staff this was our solution to this problem. We had seen it done before but only by a couple of folks.

our return email went as follows:

Your email was engaging, we hadn't ever heard about this sort of problem before.

Glass chips make for a pretty fire, one where you would not want to mess it up with food drippings like marshmallows or hotdogs for example. And glass will not hold heat very well; or reflect glowing heat too.

Lava rock appears to get only better with age because of the carbon build up caused from food burn to a "carbon crisp" (and lava rock hides these crumbs as the rock isn't so uniform in size and colour and is porous). The heat built up in the lava rock with natural gas or propane generates better for roasting those party favourites thanks to the thin walls of the lava rocks ' micro caves, sometimes turning them growing red (therefore creating ember like effects).

It all comes down to a pair things you want to choose for yourself, and only you can answer them. Do you need a pretty fire pit or a helpful fun fire pit? Or even better why not both?

I've seen both functions built into the same fire pit.

In this one case we have seen, they put a double gas ring in the pit with one rings being larger in diameter than the other. And depending on your taste and style you are trying for, they put colored glass chips in the middle over the littler gas ring and lava rock on the outside over the larger diameter gas ring.

What this did was kind of cool. When these people wanted just pretty flames they turned on the center gas ring which was under the glass chips; but when they wanted a fun roasting flame they might turn on the larger outside ring, the one under the lava rock.

This may be something to think about.

I wish you all of the best and have a great time with this.

Lee

Building a back garden fire pit is fun and still can be terribly handy. There isn't any need to sacrifice one for the other when you can have both. I hope this text permits you to see that you can create a very unique and fun fire pit for you own backyard. Its something new to think about.