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Lava Rock or Glass chips in fire pits
The other day I received a mail from an individual who had an engaging problem and I want to share it with you as you may of faced the exact same thing. His email was this:
We built a natural gas fire pit and put lots of coloured glass chips in it. It works great, looks fantastic but is worthless for roasting marshmallows : (.
It seems like an open flame just lights the marshmallows ... We need coals. But I don't want to put wood in and deal with the ashes.
Proposals?
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 a couple of folk.
our return email went as follows:
Your e-mail was engaging, we had not ever heard about this sort of problem before.
Glass chips make for a pretty fire, one where you wouldn't want to mess it up with food drippings like marshmallows or hotdogs for example. And glass won't hold heat very well; or reflect radiant 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 because 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 favorites because of the thin walls of the lava rocks ' micro caves, sometimes turning them growing red (therefore making ember like effects).
It all reduces down to a couple things you need to decide for yourself, and only you can answer them. Do you need a pretty fire pit or a helpful fun fire pit? Or better why not both?
I have 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 coloured glass chips in the middle over the smaller gas ring and lava rock on the outside over the larger diameter gas ring.
What this did was kind 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 wanted a fun roasting flame they would turn on the bigger outside ring, the one under the lava rock.
This could be something to contemplate.
I wish you all the best and have a good time with this.
Lee
Building a rear yard fire pit is fun and still can be terribly helpful. There isn't any need to sacrifice one for the other when you can have both. I hope this document permits you to see that you can create a very 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 sites and if you've got any comments or questions contact him from there.
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