Just a comment on some of the things people are writing about the rubber gasket on the outer edge I immediately took that off and when we received it- I really think it was only for shipping if you look at all the photographs when they show the product they never show the gasket in use- this is a heavy duty top we have it on top of a concrete block fire pit. Well worth the money- we can use the fire pit as a table top if we wanted to when there was no fire in it in the top is closed. We did purchase a vinyl cover for the fire pit for the winter time because I want this metal top to last forever and that just protects the whole fire pit by having the vinyl top on it