9outof10mms, I just got back from Lowe's and HD looking at pavers thinking there is no way for me to get that much weight to the house in no less than 4 loads. As you said that is a lot of moving by yourself. I would not be doing anything except the pit. The chair can sit on the grass. Yours is very close to what I am looking at doing. What did you use to fasten the stones together?
Going to call some of the hardscape lawn companies this week and see what flat rock cost and if they deliver to where the lake house is.
The big iron fire bowl might be looking better and a hell of a lot easier.
Thanks,
I used regular old brick mortar from Home Depot. I forget the actual brand/mix...there was a name for it, like the slang name it’s known by on the job. Mason’s mix or something like that.
The stone was from a local landscape yard. I think we paid $200 per ton (a pallet was one ton). I hauled them one at a time in my Ram 1500, pulling a “Carolina Squat” all the way down the highway...waiting to see leaf spring blowing out the sides of the truck!
If you’re not doing flag stones (the big ones for the ground), then moving the smaller stones was not that big of a deal. The pit took exactly one ton with a few dozen left over. If you can’t get the truck back to the pit, and if you have a riding lawn mower, go buy one of the trailers. I paid like $75 for one at Home Depot and it’s paid for itself numerous times, especially when hauling these stones from the truck to the site.
I dry stacked the pit first to find the right pieces and fit them. Of course, it didn’t go back together like I dry fit it, but it was still better than picking and choosing while I had mortar drying. I took the dry stack apart in a sunburst pattern to make it quick and easy to put it back together.
If all you’re doing is a pit, then you’ve got a fun and relatively easy project. The flag stones are a be-itch!
Mark the circle that you want, take a shovel and scrape the surface down a couple/few inches. I put pea gravel down as a leveling/foundation (bought in several bags from Home Depot). Then just build up to your desired height. Mine is about 48” inside diameter and that’s about the maximum that I’d want it. Any bigger is too big, in my opinion.