On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 07:05:28 -0800, Smitty Two
wrote:

In article ,
notbob wrote:

On 2011-12-10, Ron wrote:

But, if you still want to do it, maybe you could just place the fire bowl
on
top of a layer of landscape pavers.......

Yep. My recommendation also. They're cheap and you can buy them everywhere.

nb

I have considered this approach, but would they just become hot enough
themselves to transfer the heat to the deck?


No. But unless you mortar them together you leave a place for an
invisible ember to lurk on your deck that will wait until there is
no-one around to smoke enough to be found before damage is done.

[not to mention flying embers that close to your house--

I'm thinking now about something roughly equivalent to a wooden pallet,
with a top surface of sheet metal.

If it is 10x10 or so you'd eliminate the burning embers falling our of
the pit--- but nothing will help when your drunken brother-in-law
decides to toss a giant log on top of that pine that he had going in
there. Get your wood fire away from the house.

[just for giggles- see if you can find out what your homeowner's
insurance has to say about fire pits in general, and fire pits on a
wood deck. Might be a good time to just cancel the policy if they
aren't going to cover your most likely source of disaster.]]

Jim