How To Build An Outdoor Kitchen

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Home improvement expert https://www.ronhazelton.com/ demonstrates how to take your outdoor living to the limit by building an outdoor kitchen. This outdoor kitchen comes equipped with a rinsing sink, refrigerator and gas grill. • • Build your outdoor cooking area with outdoor kitchen plans that include an attractive weather-proof cabinet to house a rinsing sink, a mini refrigerator, and a gas grill. This design makes outdoor living convenient and permanent. Put your cumbersome wheeled barbecue into a yard sale and let someone else drag it through the grass every time they want to cook/entertain. • Transcript: • You know, after finishing a job like patching that hole in the wall, I like to relax a little bit and nothing is more relaxing for me than grilling outside. Well, Tom Urban and Rebecca Sweet, they live out in Los Altos, California, love to cook outside too and have asked me to come out and give them a hand with a very interesting project. • • So this is where you were thinking right here huh? • • Right in this corner. • • Now you cook outside, so who's the outdoor cook? • • I do the outdoor cooking! • • Tom ,Yeah. • • And • Yeah • Rebecca, you're the indoor. • • Indoor cooking. • • That's a nice division of labor there. • • Right. • • So how are you doing it now? • • Well, I have a barbecue that I have to wheel out onto the lawn here and it kind of tears up the lawn as I move it and then I'm shoving it back in the corner, so it's not the prettiest solution. • • Ok. • • This L shaped brick area is the perfect spot for a backyard kitchen installation. We're going to build what is essentially a kitchen counter with a tile countertop. Built into the counter will be compartments for a mini refrigerator, a rinsing sink and a built in gas grill. • • Our first step involves removing the lawn sprinkler distribution manifold, currently located in the exact spot of our future grill. OK. • • Tom and I use plastic pipe cutters to remove it. Later on, we'll reroute the water pipes and reinstall the manifold at a different spot. • • Next, we stake out the boundaries of the counter. • • All right, let's get some wood and start doing this for real. • • Start cooking. • • All the various components of our kitchen will be built on top of a wooden platform. So the first step is to build a joist assembly, which is the base for the platform. After measuring and cutting all the wood, we assemble the joist as a single unit using a butane powered nail gun. Since the joist will be in contact with the ground, we use pressure treated lumber which resists rotting. Once it's put together we set our joist assembly into place. • • So we're level left to right and we're level front to back, all the way around. The next step is going to be to put a piece of plywood on top of this. • • First, we drill a series of holes to accommodate the sprinkler pipes, then set the plywood back in place. • • Right, aright. • • Hey, not bad. • • Well done. • • We attach the plywood by driving rust proof galvanized deck screws into the joist. • • Now, this is the base for your new grill. It's all insulated. We'll get back to this a little bit later but it's fairly heavy as you can see and it's going to get even heavier when we put the workings on the inside so it has to be supported. We're going to create a little platform made up of four of these frames right here. Those two are together, what I want to do right now guys is to make up two more and then we'll put a piece of plywood on top of that. • • Tom and Rebecca nail the two by fours together using simple butt joints. • • So think of those as kind of legs guys, and this is going to be the top. So just make it flush on the edge over there. • • OK. • • All right, just do that side first and then the screw gun is behind you Rebecca. • • While Tom and Rebecca finish off the grill platform, I cut the sprinkler pipes down so that they'll fit beneath it. • • Ok Tom, when we get a start on the plumbing here, we're going to have to put the rest of those pipes in a little bit later and make our connection to the manifold. Right now though, I want to drop this platform in place. Yeah, let me put this out the way here and we're going to put the base to your grill up on top here. • • OK. • • We'll attach this down permanently a little bit later, but let's grab the end of this. Right now I need to get some measurements. • • Alright. • • Now, the critical measurement for us right now is the height. • • This measurement gives us the proper height for the wall frames, which we're about to construct next. We'll also build a pair of interior frames to be installed on either side of the grill platform. They will form a separate compartment into which the gas grill will set. Tom and Rebecca take turns cutting the two by four’s needed for each frame. • • How's that? • • That's great. • • We then return to the nail gun and assemble the frames.

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