Jon Tofte
TVWBB 1-Star Olympian
Before you think I have gone on another sidetracked adventure, this new foray is for a friend on a time and materials basis.
My friend bought a fixer-upper house for the express purpose of flipping it in this crazy South Florida housing market. One of the main selling points of the house is a large porch with built-in gas grill. It is a Lazy-Man Grill, another of the various lower volume, expensive stainless grills.
This one has a pretty nice retractable hood with a working rotisserie motor and stainless steel spit that looks to have not seen very much action. The grill, on the other hand, needs a lot of help:
I did a little searching and found that Lazy-Man is still chugging along and that his grill is still made, although the lava rock grate and plastic knobs
have given way to deflectors and stainless knobs. There are parts available from several outlets.
The worst aspect of the grill he got was the internal stainless firebox which was eaten through all over:
That box alone is over $300. We got lucky, though, when I found on Letgo an identical grill in West Palm Beach for $100, which though missing grates and some parts apparently wasn't heavily used and had a firebox that was still very decent:
I brought my Letgo find to my shop while my friend removed and brought his one there as well. The plan is simple and obvious. Salvage the best parts from both grills and buy only new parts that we need to make this grill work well and look nice. It is actually very simple in design, so mostly it will be cleaning stainless, lubricating the valves (which still turn on both grills even as is)
and installing the new parts. Since both are the older model, we will be getting a new grate and switching from lava rocks to ceramic pyramids. Definitely need new burners, Lazy-Man's equivalent of crossovers, and an igniter & collector. The stainless rod grates look reusable given adequate hard cleaning.
I wouldn't be very interested in doing one of these on speculation for flipping. I don't think they have enough following even though they cost ~$2,300 new. But, for a friend and with a clear purpose in mind I think it will be an interesting thing to work on.
My friend bought a fixer-upper house for the express purpose of flipping it in this crazy South Florida housing market. One of the main selling points of the house is a large porch with built-in gas grill. It is a Lazy-Man Grill, another of the various lower volume, expensive stainless grills.
This one has a pretty nice retractable hood with a working rotisserie motor and stainless steel spit that looks to have not seen very much action. The grill, on the other hand, needs a lot of help:
I did a little searching and found that Lazy-Man is still chugging along and that his grill is still made, although the lava rock grate and plastic knobs
have given way to deflectors and stainless knobs. There are parts available from several outlets.
The worst aspect of the grill he got was the internal stainless firebox which was eaten through all over:
That box alone is over $300. We got lucky, though, when I found on Letgo an identical grill in West Palm Beach for $100, which though missing grates and some parts apparently wasn't heavily used and had a firebox that was still very decent:
I brought my Letgo find to my shop while my friend removed and brought his one there as well. The plan is simple and obvious. Salvage the best parts from both grills and buy only new parts that we need to make this grill work well and look nice. It is actually very simple in design, so mostly it will be cleaning stainless, lubricating the valves (which still turn on both grills even as is)
and installing the new parts. Since both are the older model, we will be getting a new grate and switching from lava rocks to ceramic pyramids. Definitely need new burners, Lazy-Man's equivalent of crossovers, and an igniter & collector. The stainless rod grates look reusable given adequate hard cleaning.
I wouldn't be very interested in doing one of these on speculation for flipping. I don't think they have enough following even though they cost ~$2,300 new. But, for a friend and with a clear purpose in mind I think it will be an interesting thing to work on.
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! He agreed to pay for all the parts and my labor, so it will be under his control.
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, but that guy was working with a brand new piece of stainless. 
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