Lava Rock or Glass Chips for your Fire Pit why not bothLava Rock or Glass chips in fire pits
Sponsored LinksRecently I received an email from an individual who had a fascinating problem and I want to share it with you because you may of faced the exact same thing. His email was this:
We made a natural gas fire pit and put a large amount of coloured glass chips in it. It works extremely well, looks fantastic but is pointless for roasting marshmallows : (.
It feels like an open flame just lights the marshmallows … We need coals. But I do not really want to put wood in and deal with the ashes.
Suggestions?
Thanks!
We here at Lava Rocks for Fire Pits.com never had a question or problem of this nature presented to us, but on reflexion and talking about it with our staff this was our answer to this problem. We had seen it done before but only by two folk.
our return email went as follows:
Your e-mail was interesting, we had not ever heard about this kind of problem before.
Glass chips make for a pretty fire, one where you wouldn't need to mess it up with food drippings like marshmallows or hotdogs and so on. And glass won't hold heat very well; or reflect radiant heat also.
Lava rock appears to get only better with age due to 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 permeable). The heat built up in the lava rock with natural gas or propane pumps out better for roasting those party favourites because of the thin walls of the lava rocks ‘ micro caves, occasionally turning them growing red (so creating ember like effects).
It all reduces down to a couple things you need to decide for yourself, and only you can answer them. Are you wanting a pretty fire pit or a handy fun fire pit? Or 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 sort of cool. When these folks wanted just pretty flames they turned on the center gas ring which was under the glass chips; but when they needed a fun roasting flame they would switch on the bigger outside ring, the one under the lava rock.
This could be something to consider.
I only wish you all the best and have fun with this.
Lee
Building a rear yard fire pit is fun and still can be very useful. There is no need to sacrifice one for the other when you may have both. I am hoping this article allows you to see you can make a extraordinarily unique and fun fire pit for you own back garden. Its something new to contemplate.
Lee Miller is your source for lava rock for fire pits and lava rock for bonsai check him out at his websites and if you have any comments or questions contact him from there.
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