Outdoor cooking tables, bbq prep area.


 
timothy said:
If I was doing one I would use a NanaWall.
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I installed hundreds of them and they really define an outdoor from indoor space.
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beautiful wall system you shared. we built a 16' sliding 4 panel wall in our new home. it's pretty cool when the outside and inside mesh to become a seamless space.
 
Ron Thomson said:
In my grilling area, I ordered 3 stainless steel food service carts with locking wheels from Amazon. You can order as many as you think you need and configure them in an arrangement that works for you and your space. They're inexpensive, portable, and easy to clean. I'll add links of what I purchased.

1 each - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08BP2VX5W/?tag=tvwb-20
2 each - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B081R6M97F/?tag=tvwb-20

I have a 270 GS smoker/grill sitting on the shorter table. I use the two taller tables for prep, cooked food staging, etc.

I also ordered 2, 32 gallon trash cans on wheels from Lowe's where I keep charcoal, charcoal chimney, wood chunks, bbq tools, a small stainless steel shop vac, lighters, etc.


Additionally, I have a Step-On trash can from Lowe's that I keep a liner in to dump ashes, used aluminum foil, and anything else I don't want to throw away in the house.


Good luck! Hope this gives you a few more ideas to ponder for your grilling playground!
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great links, thanks! any pics of how you've laid out the tables along with your grills? i'm a visual learner and like to see how the puzzle fits together. TY.
 
MikeLucky said:
So, we're in the design phase of our new home build and I finally got some preliminary looks at what my "cook shack" (name is still in the design phase too lol) will look like.

We already bought our lot. It's half an acre and we have our own tiny dock on the lake. This is the view from the backyard that we are trying to maximize.

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So, the 3 main grill features of my outdoor kitchen are my Genesis E-435, Summit Kamado, and my current 3 burner Gen 1 Weber Griddle which might be replaced by the larger Slate Griddle.

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We decided on this layout so far.... Might be some tweaks, but not sure yet.

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Countertop includes and undercabinet fridge and a 30" standard large kitchen sink (with disposal) so I can get any and all parts of my grills in there if I want to clean them that way as well as do full cooking prep out there if I want to. Rest would be cabinets. He has the two walls currently as pony walls but we might go full wall on the one facing the future neighbors, but haven't decided for sure yet.

Here's the proposed elevation with a possible future pool shown for reference.

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View from the screened in back patio of the house.

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My thoughts are that I like the freedom of arranging and moving the grills around at will. It also allows for easy upgrades or changeouts of any of the grills without costly renovations or structural changes. If we go full wall on the left side of the kitchen, it would allow for wall mounting of multiple TVs but I can just as easily have them mounted from the ceiling but they might not look as good that way. Again, still in flux on that decision.

This is the front of the house and you can see the wrap around porch will offer views of the outdoor kitchen/pool/lake from the front as well. The portion of the house to the left of the "breezeway" is a small guest house for my 80 year old mother that lives with us. She will have her own space but can walk through the screened in, covered patio to the main house for dinner each night. In retirement all she said she really wanted was to never have to cook again, and now she doesn't have to. lol. She worked 54 and 1/2 years for the federal government so she's earned the rest.

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We are meeting with the architect again next week to go over some things and make some more decisions so we'll see what comes out of that. I'm just so damn happy to finally (hopefully) get my dream outdoor cooking area. I don't get to make many decisions on the rest of the house, but that part is MINE. lol. If folks are interested on this thread I will keep updating the design and construction of the "cook shack" as it's happening. I'd love to hear any opinions or feedback from y'all about it and maybe come up with some cool ideas that I haven't thought of.
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My how life twists and turns..... lol

Since this post a lot has happened. First thing that happened is my wife got a remote position so we no longer HAD to live in SE Georgia. We had literally just finished the design process and were only waiting for the permit drawings to be completed and to meet with the builder to confirm pricing. But, when my wife got the remote position I had to ask her a question. I said, "before we go through this year long build, if you had gotten this remote position 2 years ago when we were still in Oklahoma, would be have moved to Georgia." She says, "nope, we'd be in Florida." So, I said we need to look down there and make sure we are making the right long term decision.

So, we scheduled a weekend full of house showings in Central Florida and made a weekend out of it. Before we left for the weekend we met with our builder. He had quoted us a price a year ago at $230 a square foot for the custom build. That was putting us right on budget. Well, a little over a year later and now he's quoting us $250 a square foot. That added $100,000 to our total. So..... Now, our "perfect" full build would have to be cut back to stay in budget. We wanted that info before we started looking in Florida to compare.

Turns out that same weekend we were looking at houses our daughter was flown in to the same area by a company that was offering her a new position there... Huge pay raise and her first management role. So, of course she accepted it. That was the end of the conversation. After buying a lakefront lot in Georgia, and working with an architect for over a year on design for a house we'll now never build, we were moving to Florida.

We were looking for a house for me, my wife, and my 81 year old mom who lives with us. We needed a full in-law suite or guest house. Fast forward to today and we are in the middle of unpacking in our new Florida home. But, as with comes with buying existing we knew there were things on our wish list that didn't come pre-installed. lol. As is also usually the case, my wife got most of her list but I got very few things on my list. I'm okay with that, as this is likely our forever home and I'll get there eventually.

But, to make this post relevant, the main thing I didn't get was my covered outdoor grilling/kitchen area. It's one of the first things on the upgrade list when we are able, but for now I had to do something I absolutely hate doing..... buy grill covers. Summit S6 and Genesis go on the sundeck for now.

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Griddle stays on the pool deck for now since the wife uses it more than I do.

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I'm a little disappointed to be starting back at square one, but there are things about my new backyard that soothe the pain enough for me.... lol

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I think I will survive. In the meantime, I have to figure out a new plan.

Cover over the existing sundeck?
Covered area inside the cage?
New covered area somewhere else in the yard so I don't take up real estate on the pool deck or the sundeck?

Open canvas.... Until then I'll be fighting rainstorms and grill covers. Things could always be worse, I suppose. If you are still reading this wall of words I posted, thanks for reading. Ideas? Thoughts? Snarky comments? I'll accept them all at this point.
 
EricV. said:
Nice set-up, the only advice I can give you is to take your time developing a plan, get to know the weather patterns etc.
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Yeah, at first I was rushing to come up with a quick fix covered patio setup but the more I thought about it, I came to this conclusion as you did. Let it simmer and see how it goes. Being a lifelong Okie I tend to judge all my grilling experiences based on the weather and situations there, even though I don't live there anymore. SE Georgia near the ocean had so many rain days, but I'm just not sure how many full days of rain we'll get here. I plan for some kind of rain just about everyday, but it might only last for a few minutes. And, who knows.... I might end up not hating the use of covers after using them for a bit. Not something I expect, but I didn't think I'd be living in Florida with my wife and my mother either, so...... lol
 
hey @MikeLucky looks like a nice location. I hope you avoid hurricanes and gators.

I can't tell from the picture, but the lights along the top of the shade area look very close to the edge of the pool. You might want to measure and look at code for your area and ensure this is not a potential shock hazard.

IIRC, 5 foot from the edge of the pool is the danger area and any electrical items within 5 feet must be at least 12 feet above the water, and there cannot be any structure that could complete the shocking circuit. I think the 5 foot / 12 foot is a national swimming pool code and FLA may have its own in addition.

I'm not trying to sound like a know-it-all because I don't, but I became aware of this when a friend of mine had a permit inspection fail due to a similar set of lights. Even though the permit was unrelated this was called out and ended up having to be moved.
 
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I know nothing about Florida building codes (or anywhere else for that matter) but, the “neighbors roof” (longhand for $#|T) can hit the fan well inland so, consider design and construction of anything down there very carefully. If you are in your “age in place” home (hate the term) consider very carefully. There are a host of issues I wish we had considered when we bought this house, age was so far down the list it’s ridiculous!
Taking your time to design a comfortable, smart set up that works for you!
I’m tweaking some ideas here for “remote storage” but, I need to think a few things through. Lucky me, she has said “You should make that area more convenient for you!” Im still picking up the pieces of my jaw! I have a few more “concept” thoughts about a more “secure” cabinet design. Now, if I can do it within a reasonable “budget”? Heaven help me!
 
MikeLucky said:
My how life twists and turns..... lol

Since this post a lot has happened. First thing that happened is my wife got a remote position so we no longer HAD to live in SE Georgia. We had literally just finished the design process and were only waiting for the permit drawings to be completed and to meet with the builder to confirm pricing. But, when my wife got the remote position I had to ask her a question. I said, "before we go through this year long build, if you had gotten this remote position 2 years ago when we were still in Oklahoma, would be have moved to Georgia." She says, "nope, we'd be in Florida." So, I said we need to look down there and make sure we are making the right long term decision.

So, we scheduled a weekend full of house showings in Central Florida and made a weekend out of it. Before we left for the weekend we met with our builder. He had quoted us a price a year ago at $230 a square foot for the custom build. That was putting us right on budget. Well, a little over a year later and now he's quoting us $250 a square foot. That added $100,000 to our total. So..... Now, our "perfect" full build would have to be cut back to stay in budget. We wanted that info before we started looking in Florida to compare.

Turns out that same weekend we were looking at houses our daughter was flown in to the same area by a company that was offering her a new position there... Huge pay raise and her first management role. So, of course she accepted it. That was the end of the conversation. After buying a lakefront lot in Georgia, and working with an architect for over a year on design for a house we'll now never build, we were moving to Florida.

We were looking for a house for me, my wife, and my 81 year old mom who lives with us. We needed a full in-law suite or guest house. Fast forward to today and we are in the middle of unpacking in our new Florida home. But, as with comes with buying existing we knew there were things on our wish list that didn't come pre-installed. lol. As is also usually the case, my wife got most of her list but I got very few things on my list. I'm okay with that, as this is likely our forever home and I'll get there eventually.

But, to make this post relevant, the main thing I didn't get was my covered outdoor grilling/kitchen area. It's one of the first things on the upgrade list when we are able, but for now I had to do something I absolutely hate doing..... buy grill covers. Summit S6 and Genesis go on the sundeck for now.

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Griddle stays on the pool deck for now since the wife uses it more than I do.

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I'm a little disappointed to be starting back at square one, but there are things about my new backyard that soothe the pain enough for me.... lol

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I think I will survive. In the meantime, I have to figure out a new plan.

Cover over the existing sundeck?
Covered area inside the cage?
New covered area somewhere else in the yard so I don't take up real estate on the pool deck or the sundeck?

Open canvas.... Until then I'll be fighting rainstorms and grill covers. Things could always be worse, I suppose. If you are still reading this wall of words I posted, thanks for reading. Ideas? Thoughts? Snarky comments? I'll accept them all at this point.
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Congrats to you guys. Great looking place and play area in the backyard. Moving isn’t fun but shedding the weight of acquired c r aaay p is. Give yourself some time to digest how you use the space. The vision will come to you and it’ll figure itself out.
 
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DanHoo said:
hey @MikeLucky looks like a nice location. I hope you avoid hurricanes and gators.

I can't tell from the picture, but the lights along the top of the shade area look very close to the edge of the pool. You might want to measure and look at code for your area and ensure this is not a potential shock hazard.

IIRC, 5 foot from the edge of the pool is the danger area and any electrical items within 5 feet must be at least 12 feet above the water, and there cannot be any structure that could complete the shocking circuit. I think the 5 foot / 12 foot is a national swimming pool code and FLA may have its own in addition.

I'm not trying to sound like a know-it-all because I don't, but I became aware of this when a friend of mine had a permit inspection fail due to a similar set of lights. Even though the permit was unrelated this was called out and ended up having to be moved.
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So, we have had a crazy time with inspections and whatnot. During the normal purchase process we had a day full of inspections that was 6 and a half hours and $1500 worth of inspections. We had the full house inspection, the Florida 4 point, roof wind mitigation, septic system, pool, well and irrigation inspections. The original roof was 19 years old so a new roof was added as part of the sale. We got the new roof put on and literally 2 days later Helene swept through. So, the day after (which was 3 days before closing) we had another wind mitigation and 4 point done to make sure the roof survived Helene and was still insurable. Then we closed 3 days later on Monday and wouldn't you know it, 4 days after that Milton literally came directly over the new house. So, after Milton we had to have another wind mitigation inspection as well as a physical inspection from our insurance company to ensure there was no damage. Couldn't have ever predicted how crazy the timing of all that was for us. Thankfully the sum total of damage for us was about 7 or 8 palm branches from the palm trees. We are definitely very blessed and thankful to have come out of both unscathed. Many, many folks weren't so lucky.

The lights are connected to a GFCI circuit for power so I'm assuming that's why they passed inspection. They said nothing about them.

Timothy F. Lewis said:
I know nothing about Florida building codes (or anywhere else for that matter) but, the “neighbors roof” (longhand for $#|T) can hit the fan well inland so, consider design and construction of anything down there very carefully. If you are in your “age in place” home (hate the term) consider very carefully. There are a host of issues I wish we had considered when we bought this house, age was so far down the list it’s ridiculous!
Taking your time to design a comfortable, smart set up that works for you!
I’m tweaking some ideas here for “remote storage” but, I need to think a few things through. Lucky me, she has said “You should make that area more convenient for you!” Im still picking up the pieces of my jaw! I have a few more “concept” thoughts about a more “secure” cabinet design. Now, if I can do it within a reasonable “budget”? Heaven help me!
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The one and only large project we need to accomplish on the new house is opening up the kitchen more and putting in a large island. Obviously that's a big project so it's for our long term plan. Tonight my wife actually said she would rather us do the outdoor kitchen/grilling area first. Much like yourself, I had to pick up pieces of my jaw after that one. But, we will be able to take our time and really see what we want/need before we do anything.

Brett-EDH said:
Congrats to you guys. Great looking place and play area in the backyard. Moving isn’t fun but shedding the weight of acquired c r aaay p is. Give yourself some time to digest how you use the space. The vision will come to you and it’ll figure itself out.
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We've been renting for almost 5 years in anticipation of transitioning into our final spot. So, I can't tell you how gratifying it is to finally have all our stuff under one roof. And, it's finally time for a good ole purge, like you said. Looking forward to that.

One win that I DID get was that my wife let me have my wall of TVs in the living room. We just had them all installed this last weekend. 75" for the main and two "frame" 55" for the extras. They have a matte finish on the screens and have a magnetic border on them so when they are off they cycle through famous artwork and look like framed art instead of TVs.

Football mode:

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Art mode:

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Not my fancy outdoor cook shack but it'll keep me at bay until then. lol
 
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