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Install Cap Blocks, Fire Pit Pan, and Lava Rocks

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What happens here

After the main fire pit structure is complete, lay the cap blocks. The cap blocks are designed to sit flush on top of the walls, creating a finished look. The video shows carefully fitting the cap blocks, avoiding cuts if possible for a seamless appearance. Once the cap blocks are in place, insert the fire pit pan and burner unit into the opening, connecting it to the gas line. Ensure the burner is about an inch below the top of the cap blocks to prevent lava rocks from falling out. Finally, fill the fire pit with lava rocks, covering the burner pan.

Goal: Complete the fire pit with caps, burner, and decorative media.

Tools and materials

  • Cap Blocks Unspecified — Finishing the top edge of the fire pit walls
  • Fire Pit Pan and Burner Rare Earth — The core component that produces the flame
  • Gas Line Unspecified — Connecting to the burner
  • Lava Rocks Unspecified — Covering the burner and providing aesthetic appeal

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but probably plant those tomorrow. So, what we're doing right now is getting our fire pit kind of finished up here. So, we got a couple couple pieces to glue down. I really like how this turned out. Turning the blocks upside down. So, we have that shamfer meeting our uh our detail strip here. And it worked out really nice with spacing all these out. So, that's our built-in venting. Pretty heavy, huh? They're solid. Yeah, they are solid. So, we're going to get to the caps now, and we're going to try to lay these out with no cuts. And Jose had a good idea that since it wasn't going to work out with no cuts, running them straight, we're going to set one in the middle of each one. And then we can miter all this. And that way, everything will be nice and even. But, uh, you know, we will have some cuts. So, good to go. I finally this weekend got to sleep on one of our projects. Sleep on your project? Yeah. I'm I'm at a loss. So, would you go over to your buddy's house to sleep outside? Yep. Oh, with the one where the fire pits in the circle. Yeah. Well, I slept inside the screen porch. Why are you sleeping outside? It was nice. It was nice out. It was beautiful. Looks comfortable. It was comfortable. The weather was like perfect. We went to the Phillies game. I saw you. I saw you put the Phillies game on Friday. That I couldn't watch that game. That was on Apple TV. I know. And they did. They went They won that game big, right? It was like 11 10 to something. Two. 10 to two, I think. So, here we go. We got our got our plate in. Nice and tight. Fits right on there. We got our ledge all the way around. So, it's all sealed off. And, uh, our lava rock's not going to fall out of here. And we like to keep it just like about an inch or so below top of our cap so we can have our lava rock. We can cover the whole plate. and uh looks nice and uh nice and clean. So, plumbers are coming out uh either today or tomorrow and they'll be taking this off. They'll 90 this. So, then we'll put our last cap on here and that'll be all done. [Music] Fire pit's all hooked up. Plumbers were here. Finalized it. Let's give it a little test. Oh no, not a big flame. Oh, we got 240,000 BTUs popping out here. Absolutely massive flame. You can obviously turn it down. You don't always want it that hot cuz it's You can feel it right now. It's It's pretty hot. So, uh, turned out awesome. We still got to put lava rock in here. So, we'll be finishing that up. But turned out awesome. This is going to…

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