I keep seeing people put their fire pits right on the grass

I mean, maybe it's just me but I see this all the time in my neighborhood. Folks will just plop a metal fire pit bowl directly on their lawn for a summer evening. I did the same thing last year and killed a perfect 4-foot circle of my Kentucky bluegrass. It took almost six weeks and a lot of seed to fix it. The heat just cooks the roots, even if you don't see flames. Now I always put mine on a proper stone or gravel pad, or at the very least, on a couple of those big concrete patio slabs from the hardware store. It seems so obvious now, but I guess we all learn the hard way. Has anyone found a good looking, movable base that doesn't wreck the yard?

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elizabethwhite14d ago

Learned that lesson the hard way too.

ray_mitchell13d ago

Yeah, the "hard way" part hits home... a buddy of mine didn't check the foundation on a house he was buying, just fell in love with the kitchen. Turned out the whole back corner was sinking, cost him like twenty grand to fix. He says he gets a sick feeling just thinking about it now. Really makes you double-check everything, even the stuff that looks fine on the surface.