Diy outdoor grill station with roof how to#
Diy outdoor grill station with roof plus#

Run your hand over the wires-in one direction the sheet will feel like a cheese grater.

Examine a sheet of wire lath and note which way the honeycombs are protruding outward.

Work from the bottom up and overlap the sheets of felt by a couple of inches to make sure water can’t get behind them.

Cover all the plywood with builder’s felt and staple it in place using a staple gun.

Build in a 1-inch-wide, 1¼-inch-deep flange around the front of each box.

Hold them together with construction adhesive and 1¼-inch deck screws.

For the cabinets, create boxes out of plywood to fit within the depth of the framing.

Leave openings in the sheathing to match any cabinet openings.

Lay the plywood over the adhesive and screw it to the 2x4s with 2-inch deck screws.

Run a bead of construction adhesive along the posts and stretchers.

Using a circular saw, cut plywood panels to fit the dimensions of the frame.

Flip the frame over and screw a metal post standoff to the bottom of each post to act as feet.

Screw the three boxes together side by side.

Wherever you will have cabinets, put a 2×4 for support in the middle of the bottom framing.

Run these between the posts at the top and bottom of both the front and the back of the box.

Cut four 2x4s to the width of the box, minus 3 inches.

Line up the four posts and screw the 2x4s to the top and bottom of the posts to tie the sides together.

Separate the posts with stretchers: Cut four 2x4s to the depth of the box.

Using a circular saw, cut a 1½-inch-deep-by-3½-inch-high notch at the top and bottom of each post.

Using a drill/driver, screw the 2x4s together in pairs with 2½-inch deck screws.Make corner posts for each box: Using a circular saw, cut eight lengths of 2×4 to the height you want the finished counter to be, minus the thickness of the countertops and the height of the metal post standoffs.

Diy outdoor grill station with roof how to#

How to Build an Outdoor Kitchenįollow along as This Old House senior technical editor Mark Powers shows you how to build an outdoor grill island by starting with a simple frame, covering it in faux stone, and then nestling a gas grill in the center to get the party started. This ensures you’ll have on hand a random range of colors, mimicking real stone, and keeps you from rummaging through boxes and chipping the pieces.

Speed up the hunt for the perfectly sized stone by first unpacking and organizing all the pieces into piles of corners, shorts, longs, and rectangulars. Arranging the stone in an aesthetically pleasing way is like doing a big jigsaw puzzle. Use stones that complement your home’s architecture or existing stonework – round fieldstones evoke a classic New England farm wall, while thin, horizontal stones have a more modern look. The outside of the island is veneered with cultured stone, which is lightweight and easy to put on with mortar. Because the boxes are empty, they can accept steel doors, drawers, or other storage compartments or conceal a propane tank for a gas grill. This layout allows you to scale the island’s length to fit your patio or adjust it to incorporate a built-in bar with a 90-degree turn.

Diy outdoor grill station with roof plus#

The frame consists of three small, manageable boxes that are built separately and then screwed together to make one long island: one 24-inch-high, 37-inch-wide box in the center to support the grill and the shelf it sits on, plus one 36-inch-high, 48-inch-wide box on either side, with cabinets set into each. The island’s frame is made out of pressure-treated 2x4s and 3/4-inch plywood – an inexpensive and durable construction that’s easier to work with than concrete block. It rests on a gently sloped concrete slab to help prevent water from pooling around the bottom, but any structurally sound existing patio would work as a base. The countertop – here it’s concrete, but it can be any kind of stone-sits 38 inches from the ground, which is a comfortable height for both food prep and elbow propping. The kitchen consists of a stainless-steel grill set into a 3-foot-long stone-veneered plywood base and flanked by two more 4-foot bases with cabinets below and 48 linear inches of countertop on each side-one with a working sink.