u/OkraTraditional

Bad idea?

Bad idea?

I’ll preface this by saying I have zero masonry experience, which is pretty self explanatory from the picture.

Anyways, I’m putting together this paver fire pit and I’ve been using refractory mortar to make a fire brick veneer on the inside. I made the last mix of the mortar I had way too thin, so I just skim coated all the brick to fill in any joint gaps I had.

My question is, mainly, is this a hazard at all? Is the mortar skim coat just going to crack and fall off eventually? I’m really just hoping there’s not any potential danger to this and was thinking this would be the right group to ask.

u/OkraTraditional — 1 day ago

Bad Idea?

I’ll preface this by saying that I have a solid hunch that this is a bad idea, but I have practically zero masonry experience so I figured I’d ask.

I’ve built an outdoor fire pit out of pavers so, to keep it lasting awhile, I’m using refractory mortar to put Meeco Red Devil 4.5” x 9” x 1.5” fire brick on the inside kind of like a veneer. It’s going okay, but my mortar job looks terrible.

What would happen if I mixed the refractory mortar super thin and rolled it over top the brick like paint to hide the shotty job I did?

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u/OkraTraditional — 2 days ago