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Sometime around the first week of Sept (08), I realized the summer had slipped by without me making any progress on my little project. As I lay in bed one morning, I decided it was time to do it, or wait till the following spring.
Here's a few pics of my post-oven work. Its not quite an outdoor kitchen build, but its gone down pretty much as I first envisioned an oven and bar/BBQ here a year-and-a-half ago.
Some of my problems in getting started on this was that I wasn't sure which barbeque I wanted, so I needed to get that decision made and get those dimensions built into the plans. I messed with the ideas of a refridgerator and a keg and tap system. I didn't really have a need for either, and all I could imagine was that the kids would either ruin them or abuse them. I opted out of both ideas. Once I picked out a grill, I finally got going with the build.
Anyway, I stacked and restacked concrete blocks for over a week I think, trying to find just the right size to give me room for the bar, BBQ, and pizza prep area. I was quickly pushing towards the start of October before I mortared in the blocks, poured concrete in the cores, and set forms for concrete countertops.
Since I was worrying a bit about the cold weather coming in, I poured the concrete countertop piece for the bar section off to the side of the work area and let it cure while I worked on the rest of this. I didn't take any pics of that work, but it was pretty straighforward work, and similar to the pics here.
I pretty much was free-wheeling on my color mixing with the concrete on the counter tops. I thought these would be easy to pour, but there's a lot more messing around trying to get the colors in so that they will expose correctly when polished. Leveling the forms was easy. Leveling the concrete was a bitch. Regardless, the final pics show the pour after I reluctanly walked away.
More later....
G.
Here's a few pics of my post-oven work. Its not quite an outdoor kitchen build, but its gone down pretty much as I first envisioned an oven and bar/BBQ here a year-and-a-half ago.
Some of my problems in getting started on this was that I wasn't sure which barbeque I wanted, so I needed to get that decision made and get those dimensions built into the plans. I messed with the ideas of a refridgerator and a keg and tap system. I didn't really have a need for either, and all I could imagine was that the kids would either ruin them or abuse them. I opted out of both ideas. Once I picked out a grill, I finally got going with the build.
Anyway, I stacked and restacked concrete blocks for over a week I think, trying to find just the right size to give me room for the bar, BBQ, and pizza prep area. I was quickly pushing towards the start of October before I mortared in the blocks, poured concrete in the cores, and set forms for concrete countertops.
Since I was worrying a bit about the cold weather coming in, I poured the concrete countertop piece for the bar section off to the side of the work area and let it cure while I worked on the rest of this. I didn't take any pics of that work, but it was pretty straighforward work, and similar to the pics here.
I pretty much was free-wheeling on my color mixing with the concrete on the counter tops. I thought these would be easy to pour, but there's a lot more messing around trying to get the colors in so that they will expose correctly when polished. Leveling the forms was easy. Leveling the concrete was a bitch. Regardless, the final pics show the pour after I reluctanly walked away.
More later....
G.
...enjoy every sandwich!
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