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Make your own Barbecue in your garden for summer

Summer is well on its way, (or so we hope) and there is one crucial element to a perfect Summer: a cracking, high Quality Barbecue!

While you can buy cheap, disposable BBQs from the supermarket however they always end up being a bit rubbish.  Good Barbecues are big, hot, and a good height. Why not build your own for free? You can use recycled bricks, barrels, or anything else you can get your hands on. They are surprisingly easy to build!

Here are 3 different ways you can make your own barbecue:

How to build a brick barbecue

The BBC’s Gardeners world has a great instruction tutorial on how to build your very own amazing brick barbecue.  Bricks can be found everywhere! In skips, on gumtree, or on preloved. Just start by placing the first layer around the grill tray so you know it is the correct size.

Mix Your cement, place the base layer then another on top & between the first layer. With help from a spirit level follow the BBC’S Free tutorial and build yourself a barbecue perfect for the summer!

How to build an oil drum or barrel barbecue

This super cool barbecue utilises a second-hand oil barrel which are often found on farms and other sites. They can regularly be found on gumtree for cheap (or FREE)

One of our favourite DIY websites, Instructables have an amazing tutorial on building your own oil drum barrel BBQ. This one is more complicated that the brick barbeque and requires some special tools, however these and be hired for the day if you do not have them. The finished product id worth it though!

Making your own Barbecue Fire pit

This firepit is the easiest of all, and can be used as a BBQ! It Is simply bricks laid on top of one another in a circle (Or and shape you wish) with a charcoal fire in the middle. You can place a grill over the top and you have your Barbeque!

To get your hands on some free tools to help make the pit, join Street Bank. A network for local communities, it has over 30,000 members online for others to borrow.

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