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Faux Fire Pit Logs Rule over Natural Wood Logs

When it comes to selecting an custom outdoor fire pit, there are several factors involved when selecting logs to adorn your flame. You can go with natural wood, or you can go with faux fire pit log kits.



Natural wood creates ash, soot and embers that fly into the air posing a fire danger to you and your neighbors homes. You constantly have to clean and replace the logs, store them in a dry area where spiders and snakes like to make haven, and the smoke the burns off from the wood is bad for the environment. Finally, natural wood is hard to control and contain. You never really know when a natural wood fire pit is actually extinguished as the ash and embers can remain active for hours after you think you put the fire out.....this is dangerous.



Why not go with a natural gas or propane fire pit dressed with Steel Oak logs? There are several styles available and they can actually help radiate heat as they heat up. Custom steel logs are a great alternative to wood as the hollowed out logs are designed to look like real logs and as the heat up they radiate and disperse heat throughout the fire pit.



Another option are high heat concrete logs that have several styles. Designed to look like real wood, you can choose from Pine, Split Bark, Driftwood or Birch. You can mix and match them as well to create a variety of wood styles as well. These high heat concrete faux logs also radiate heat as they warm, but not as well as the custom Steel Oak logs. And the best part of these log alternatives is that there is no messy clean up, no flying embers, noxious smoke and they will last the lifetime of your fire pit so no replacement necessary.

Pine Log Kits	Split Bark Kits
Driftwood Log Kits	Birch Log Kits

So how do you know how many logs you will require for your fire pit? Typically, a 7 piece kit will cover a 24" footprint, 9 piece kits cover a 30" footprint and a 14 piece kit will cover a 36" footprint. You can also throw some lava rock in there to help hide the pan in which the burning system sits. For any of your fire pit and faux log needs, feel free to contact us with any questions you have and well be happy to help. Happy fire pit hunting!