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Here we can show the construction of a barbeque in my friend Steve's house. The work begins by planning everything that is requiered. First we decide on the position and style of the barbeque. Then we make a design of what we want to build and calculate the materials required.

As we used 'Autodesk inventor' to design the barbeque we are able to obtain 3D images of the finished design.

We can now produce a list of all the necessary materials:

Rustic bricks (320)
Heat resistant bricks (110)
Heat resistant mortar 2 bags
Cement 4 bags
Builders sand 10 bags
Gravel 6 bags
Shelf supports 80cm (7)
Shelf supports 1m (7)
Tiles for shelf
Steel net for concrete

Steel bars 12x12 (2)
Lime 1 bag
Natural slate

Let's get down to work. Measuring up and marking on the location. We draw each bulkhead on the wall, with a spirit level to maintain the vertical and horizontal lines.

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The basis for barbecue and paellero. In the front rows try to offset any imbalances that we have in the database. We can do some drills and nailing some iron rods in the foundation of walls for reinforcement. You can also leave by the back near the corner a gap for water output.

This is a shelf under the grill. At about two thirds of the hole, put the shelf supports doing the shelf. They rely on half of each of the walls. In wall outside the rustic brick is cut longitudinally to see the continuity of the wall.

We continue walls on the shelves.

Shelves finished under the barbeque. Put leaving a gap drop of a centimetre or centimetre and a half. It also grouting because it will be more complicated once covered.

We do wooden templates with the design of the bows we want to achieve. Here we have two measures voids and arches are determined by the width of the hole and height lifted. Therefore the largest obtained with a radius of about 1.30 m and the lowest about 0'80 m.

The arches under construction. For its reinforcement rods corrugated we have introduced into the holes in the brick arches.

Arches completed. It grouting with mortar and washes the board with sponge. It begins to put shelves supports to make the shelf of the barbeque.

Top of the barbecue. The shelf supports are about 4 cm below the crest of the arches and this is the height of the concrete that cover.

Once closed the contour of the countertop with a brick until the final height of the concrete, we put the iron net to strengthen the board that we train.

It poured concrete to complete the entire plate.

Once dry concrete, we continue lifting walls forming the fireplace. It goes inside a distance equal to the width of heat resistant brick, which is then put by the contours of our barbecue.

Then continue with heat resistant brick lining of the fireplace, caught with heat resistant mortar board and leaving a minimum between them.

We have also placed in the outer contour the same auction as heat resistant brick. The side sill put stoneware tiles. And the walls are placed slabs of natural slate. For a better grip of the slabs were added lime to the cement and sand mortar.