Outdoor Kitchen Designs

[Dusty Britches]

The condensed version. We had a long discussion and I think I had him ready to quit. He felt all the issues were minor and I about lost it. I was pretty hard on him is what my better half told me. At that point I felt like letting him quit would be too easy on him. He said he didn’t think I would ever be satisfied with his work. I told him I wanted him to make it right and we move forward. So he agreed fix everything minus the cracked cedar pillar since it’s concreted in. We also came to an agreement on the fire place design that’s built right. So we shall see how things go.


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I've seen a lot of bad contractors and even if they do fix it to acceptable you will never be 100% happy with the work. So he is correct on that aspect. That is very shoddy. I highly recommend you cut him out and get a reputable contractor and make the first one take everything out.

You need to stay hard on him. That work is BS.

[SaltwaterSlick]

Matt, there's no way you should let him get by with not taking ALL the concrete out and re-pouring, thus allowing the split cedar post support (and a key load-bearing corner support) to be replaced. You're asking for trouble sir!

[Sticks&Strings]

Matt, one thing I will say is on those cedar posts, how is he connecting them to the beams. Every outdoor kitchen I have built I used 8x8 posts and notched them. This allows a seat for the load bearing issue and bolted the beams to the posts to address the uplift issue. All I can see is him using metal ties of some sort to address uplift with the way he framed it.

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[Stolle]

Matt, there's no way you should let him get by with not taking ALL the concrete out and re-pouring, thus allowing the split cedar post support (and a key load-bearing corner support) to be replaced. You're asking for trouble sir!

I wish I could. He would have left me high and dry. I would have to eat the demo and pay for the new build on top of the $14k I’ve paid him. I can’t spend 60k on 30k pavilion.


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[Stolle]

Matt, one thing I will say is on those cedar posts, how is he connecting them to the beams. Every outdoor kitchen I have built I used 8x8 posts and notched them. This allows a seat for the load bearing issue and bolted the beams to the posts to address the uplift issue. All I can see is him using metal ties of some sort to address uplift with the way he framed it.

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He’s going to anchor it with metal angle and lag screws. I got myself into a pickle.


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[TPA210]

Following

[Stolle]

Well the framer came back yesterday and fixed the issues. Hopefully we are moving in the right direction


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[BlackoutRam2500]

Well the framer came back yesterday and fixed the issues. Hopefully we are moving in the right direction


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Great news!

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[Biggun]

Nice

[warrington]

Be sure the fireplace chimney is higher than your roof line or it won't dfrsft properly

[warrington]

I would go with quartzite before quartz. More durable. Jmo

[mmoses]

How did this ever turn out?