If you don’t know, the full scope of precautions you should take and you don’t know anything about electrical and your best Intuition is to ask a bunch of Internet strangers whose expertise may be much less than those that you do not even possess then This is not a project that you should even be attempting. If you make a mistake, the cost is high. Electrocution, electrical, fire, loss of life and property. When the fire marshal comes in to inspect the cause of the fire and your insurance company finds out that it was a shade tree job, don’t expect your coverage to replace the damage and losses. Sometimes you just have to suck it up and do it right.

I think gas or solo would work. Most of the time it’s not an issue. Most issues with fire pits come from the drinking that goes on around them. I would just move it a little further out from the fence. I’m glad that it is not a structure. That’s what I originally thought it was. My other concern was that there was a tree above it. A wood fire burns hotter, and also has the ability for the ash to fly than a gas fireplace, which has greater control in the height of the fire. Enjoy your new home and your fire pit whatever you decide.

Any a flame near combustible object is never advised. Solo stove looks like it would be more controlled. You stated that your yard is very small and move in the fire pit to a different location would black a pathway. A portable fire pit could solve this problem. You pull it out to an area where it is not near anything combustible and it would not block the walkway when you are not using it and you could put it somewhere else. Even a barbecue should be at least 10 feet away from the home even if it is propane. An out of control fire is never expected. That’s why they are called accidents.

Too close to the wood sided house and under a tree. I can’t think of a possibly worse place to have a fire pit. The fire pit itself looks fine. It’s location is an issue. It’s your house and you can do as you wish, but there is no way in the world. I would light that thing with a wood fire. I guess maybe because I worked for the fire marshal and I have seen way too many pictures of loss and death.

Dude I grew up in the 50s I don’t have to go back and look at anything I was there. Funny, my brother and I both had shotguns and we both had BB guns. Do you wanna know another funny thing? We didn’t shoot anybody. We didn’t aim at anything except the intended targets. Schools and shoot up people. We didn’t go into banks and rob them. we didn’t hold them up to peoples heads and steal their car. We didn’t get our asses bent out of shape when people corrected us and run home and get our guns and put a bullet through their head. Do you wanna know why we didn’t do any of that? Because we weren’t dumb shits, who didn’t have any control over ourselves and understood the consequences of that type of behavior. Just because there are so many mentally ill, mentally unstable, full-time, asshole thugs, who want to be glorified by using a gun, the way it is not meant to be used Does not mean that the rest of us don’t know how to use them correctly.

So is delusion. These ray guns were made because of sci-fi movies in the 40s and 50s. You didn’t have to make a ray gun to make kids like guns because you could very easily own a BB gun and many kids that age during that time. also had shotguns. This piddly ass little plastic toy ray gun designed after a sci-fi movie is just that. You are either too young to know what it was all about or too ignorant to figure it out.

I believe you are grasping at straws

There are a lot of things that you can be frugal and cheap with. Gas connections are not one of them. If you have to come on Reddit and ask if there are any code violations that you should be worried about. How are you going to handle the transfer switch from the electrical panel to the generator? Do you even know how to do that without coming to Reddit? If you are using the generator, it is going to be a lot more gas than any stove would require. This is not a DIY unless you are in the trades and know exactly what you are doing.

I just knew that would be the top comment. Cracked me up. ⬆️ Ohhh Brad

One thing to take into consideration that many people don’t think about. If you have linoleum or other moisture impermeable flooring in the kitchen, you do not want to put something directly on the ceiling of the crawlspace below that flooring. Floor joists need to breathe. If you add foam directly to the ceiling of the crawl space (the area below the kitchen floor) you are creating a situation where the wood will rot. Same goes for insulated batting. If you use insulated batting, it is only going to turn moist from the dirt below. Batting does not work well in a crawlspace area with a dirt floor. It is usually suggested to insulate the foundation exterior walls versus the ceiling of the crawlspace to avoid trapping, moisture, causing mold.

You could try using one of those wall anchors that you use in drywall and put it into the holes to help fill the gap but the best way to do it would be to fill the hole with some thing. I have used toothpicks shoved into the hole to tighten up screws. Adding a little glue helps. You could also use wider screws if they will fit through the holes in the hinge. You could possibly look for a new hinge to replace the existing that has holes in a different spot than the existing hinges so that it would hit all new wood on the door

You don’t need a buffer just pour them in carefully in the desired pattern. You can also tilt the vase while pouring it in to get layers in angles. I always tap it just a little bit to help settle each layer before pouring the next onto it that way it ensures that the layer levels out some kind of like cake batter in a cake pan. If you are doing your own colored sand you have to make sure that it is very very dry before you attempt to layer it otherwise the colors will bleed.

ETA. If you want one color to run into the other like a design you would just take a thin object like a kebab skewer and poke it through one layer into the color below it along the perimeter of the inside of the vase. This affect can look really cool and is fun.