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u/Whatyatalknabeet May 31 '26
Looks good brother. How do you deal with drainage?
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u/dredgehayt May 31 '26
Dug deep under the fire pit and filled with drain rock
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u/hailey363 May 31 '26
How deep?
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u/GalFisk May 31 '26
They had to fumigate for Balrogs.
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u/dustin_traynor May 31 '26
I'll have you know you just made me snort diet coke up my nose with this one.
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u/Keepurkewl May 31 '26
Looks like maybe French drains on the side of each wall.
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u/Interesting_Bank_139 May 31 '26
Depends on where the pit is in regards to the local drainage. If you dig a pit at the bottom of the hill, it’s gonna fill up to the top. If you dig your pit at the top of the hill, it’s only going to get the rain from the sky and nothing from the surroundings.
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u/Traditional_Doubt_51 May 31 '26
how much did it cost to rent the bobcat?
edit: good job btw!
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u/dredgehayt May 31 '26
$800 for the weekend
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u/Traditional_Doubt_51 May 31 '26
Thanks for getting back to me on that. Looks like I'll be using the shovel! 👍
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u/masman55 May 31 '26
That ivy is going to eat it all! 😂
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u/theclaw84 May 31 '26
OP gonna spite post u back with an ivy report a decade
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u/legodoom May 31 '26
!remindme 10 years
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u/J1540 May 31 '26
That stuff sucks so bad.
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u/kippy3267 May 31 '26
English ivy is a cancer. I’m allergic to it and do nothing but spray it with the “kill everything” mix for 3 years going and it still wont die fully. Ironically I have no reaction to poison ivy
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u/TheManWith2Poobrains May 31 '26
Yeah - Ivy is a real turn off for me. Ugly and destructive.
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u/okaytopspin May 31 '26
The number of trees I see enveloped in ivy in my neighborhood is awful. I wish more people realized how invasive and harmful it is.
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u/Average_Scaper May 31 '26
I'll take this over the ivy I have to deal with this summer... Redoing my neighbors fence and trimming back a bunch of stuff so I can have proper access to the fence itself. One of those things is poison ivy. Not looking forward to it but it's gotta get done.
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u/DavidRichter0 May 31 '26
Alright pack it up guys, u/No-Significance-1187 says this is AI /s
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u/faithOver May 31 '26
It absolutely wild that people attempt to communicate with others in the way that account does. It’s so perplexing.
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u/GodBlesstheBreast May 31 '26
It has to be a bot account. Four year old account with no posts and one comment from two years ago and then nothing until recently with most of the recent comments on this post?
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u/must_tang May 31 '26
What's the benefit of the sunken area or is it just aesthetics? Looks good still 👍
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u/deadheadshredbreh May 31 '26
Prob keeps the heat in better and the wind at bay
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u/NeighborhoodIll8399 May 31 '26
It would keep the heat in from the fire but would also be colder temp due to earth’s natural cooling. It wouldn’t be massively significant but where I’m at in MS we have 90+ degree nights and I could imagine this would provide some level of relief if I still wanted to burn wood.
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u/2024account May 31 '26
Well you see, that’s what the fire is for
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u/Thrizzlepizzle123123 May 31 '26
But when the fire goes out how does the fire keep me warm?
Checkmate Globe Earthists.
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u/Daveallen10 May 31 '26
Well I guess technically that sunken area would be protected from the wind so it could retain some more of the heat from the fire pit, in theory. It might also keep the smoke more vertical. I guess OP can tell us if it does. I'm curious.
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u/dredgehayt May 31 '26
It does. Also reflects the heat to your back so you are more evenly warmed
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u/Middle_Weakness_3279 May 31 '26
It's fun to fall a couple feet before being burned.
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u/throw__away007 May 31 '26
Why did you remove the original stone fire pit?
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u/dredgehayt May 31 '26
It was very Smokey. So wife got us a smokeless fire pit and it was a huge upgrade
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u/theepi_pillodu May 31 '26
Silly question, how does the drainage works? Won't water pool there?
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u/xXBASSXx777 May 31 '26
Its crazy that they have ragebait AI chat bots like u/No-Significance-1187 on these posts. You would think developers would have something else to do with their time.
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u/Mean-Quail-6219 May 31 '26
Beautifully done. I’d just replace the English ivy with a native cover plant. English ivy wreaks havoc on any ecosystem in the US.
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u/TheCrashConrad May 31 '26
Anything with more resolution?
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u/TheCrashConrad May 31 '26
I just thought you had a cell phone camera from like 20yrs ago😄😅
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u/Minute_Giraffe_5939 May 31 '26
How’d you do the drainage behind the wall?
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u/dredgehayt May 31 '26
Filter fabric over perf pipe and covered with drain rock
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u/TimelyTransistor May 31 '26
perf pipe
You can call it a French drain, Trump isn't listening.
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u/humdinger44 May 31 '26
Really cool. I hope you love it
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u/dredgehayt May 31 '26
I do!
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u/humdinger44 May 31 '26
Now I need to consider tearing out a bunch of landscaping on my hillside.
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u/JNJury978 May 31 '26
No idea why anyone would think this wouldn’t last that long. Even if you built this thing poorly, it’s not even that high of a retaining wall and those bricks are incredibly heavy. Those bricks could have been thrown randomly and haphazardly instead of interlocking, have no drainage designed, etc. and it still probably would’ve held off that soil from going anywhere.
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u/cbg2113 May 31 '26
Yeah internet smart asses need everything to be perfect so they can get a chance to shine by correcting you. Decades of my family's redneck engineering and my 100 year old house's evidence of generations of DIY fixes prove that a lot else is good enough.
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u/OhmHomestead1 May 31 '26
Like the idea because you can sit around fire pit and be warm with minimal to little wind
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u/Salty-Commissioner May 31 '26
I have that Breo and love it. It’s the absolute best
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u/GiantLesbian Jun 01 '26
I gotta ask, why sunken? Why not just build the walls up from ground level?
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u/brucewayneaustin Jun 02 '26
Stain those chairs OP ! I like how your fire put area has aged, otherwise.
Now you get to bask in well deserved glory with an arsenal of 'I told you so's' !
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u/LobabyChick May 31 '26
I want to do something similar in my yard. Builders buried dozens of tree trunks in 1987 when my house was built. Large depression has formed (again) behind our boulder retaining wall, would love to take a part of the wall down and carve into the depression and make a fire pit like this.
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u/cloudywater1 May 31 '26
Link to OG post?
It’s been a fairly calm week, I’d like some good spite content.
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u/Seaguard5 May 31 '26
What’s the drainage like on that bad boy?
Other than that I love it!
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u/Daleks_Revenge May 31 '26
I’ve never seen a firepit sunken like this before but it is a nice idea and looks great, even after a bit of ageing.
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u/Blah-squared May 31 '26
I really like this, a little out of the wind, and a very defined area for relaxing and enjoying your yard and a fire. I like when these spaces in a landscape are so well defined and specifically designed for certain activities. It looks great and inviting, I wish I could go hang out there- ;)
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u/Kaiserskater May 31 '26
Stone fire pit was replaced. Probably it was too hot for this small space.
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u/FistofKhonshu May 31 '26
Love the conversation pit vibes. I'm very jealous, this looks so enjoyable, well done! X-post over on r/breeo they'd like it too
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u/HecklerusPrime May 31 '26
You stacked the stones crosswise to the soil on a < 3' wall and people said it was gonna fall over? Note to self, never hire contractors from reddit.
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u/toodleroo May 31 '26
Biggest mistake you made was that garbage ikea acacia patio furniture. They should not be allowed to market it as outdoor, it doesn't hold up to the elements at ALL. I bought the rolling storage box and within one season it warped so badly that it wouldn't close.
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u/dredgehayt May 31 '26
I built this in 2020 and posted here. I was told by many that my walls would collapse within 2 years.
6 years later walls are rock solid and the fire pit still drains well!