Then you’ll have to mortar the bricks into place. Before digging out the space for your in-ground fire pit, call your utility companies (dial 811; for more info, go to call811.com) to check the ...

When digging a pit, one way to prevent the walls from collapsing inward under pressure is to make them less steep, so they slant outward like the sides of a cone. A good rule of thumb is to make ...

The long-awaited $25 million Portland Harbor dredging project starts on Monday as contractors begin digging a 9-acre pit in a shallow South Portland cove where seven decades of a working ...