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Outdoor Kitchens: pressure treated lumber and framing
When it comes time to build your new outdoor kitchen, pressure treated lumber will be one of your building materials. Pressure treated lumber for your framing. Pressure treated lumber for your studs.
Pressure treated lumber is combustible. You’ll be adding appliances. So, when you are building your outdoor kitchen, it’s a good idea to purchase liners. Your liners will be installed before your appliances go in.
Liners protect lumber from heat. Heat which will be generated when you enjoy benefits bestowed upon you when you fire up the grill out back. In your new, custom-built outdoor kitchen.
Appliance liners can be delivered – onsite – by the manufacturer. With pre-cut holes already built into the liners. These pre-cut holes accommodate your gas line. And your electric line. Concerning yourself with how you will be plugging in your new wine cooler, once your outdoor kitchen has been completed, is a concern which you simply will not have.
In regard to liners you can use with your appliances, Utah-based Blackstone, or Ontario, Canada-based Napoleon, or EdgeStar (one of the retail brands under Virginia-based Ferguson) are some of the popular choices that I see today.
We started with lumber, which brought us to appliance liners. Due to the fact that lumber is combustible. Let’s segue back to lumber. To one of the major components involved in building your outdoor kitchen: framing.
Thinking About Becoming a Real Estate Developer?When it comes to framing your outdoor kitchen, 24” framing – I.e.: 24” on center – is a likely selection. With this type of framing, your wall studs will be 24 inches apart. As measured from the center of one stud to the center of the next stud.
24” on center is advisable when building your outdoor kitchens. There are a few good reasons for this. So let’s speak to a few of those…
With 24” on center – compared to 16” on center – you will use fewer studs.
With 16” on center, you measure 16 inches from the center of one stud to the center of your next stud. That distance – with 16” on center – is 16 inches. A distance of 16 inches – from the center of one stud, to the center of the next stud – is 8 inches less than you have with 24” on center.
With 24” on center, it’s simple. You need fewer studs. With 16” on center – due to the reduced distance between studs – you use more studs.
Choosing to go with 24”on center enables you to reduce material costs. As well as labor costs. Fewer studs. Fewer hours spent erecting studs.
One determinant for going with either 16” on center or 24” on center is load bearing walls.
With your home, walls support load bearing walls. Your outdoor kitchen won’t have load-bearing walls. No need to go with 16” on center. 24” on center is fine.
So…a fun recommendation. How about using the savings you get by going with 24” on center to consider adding a “Rolex of a grill” to your enhanced outdoor living space. A Mont Albi.
Pressure treated lumber is combustible. You’ll be adding appliances. So, when you are building your outdoor kitchen, it’s a good idea to purchase liners. Your liners will be installed before your appliances go in.
Liners protect lumber from heat. Heat which will be generated when you enjoy benefits bestowed upon you when you fire up the grill out back. In your new, custom-built outdoor kitchen.
Appliance liners can be delivered – onsite – by the manufacturer. With pre-cut holes already built into the liners. These pre-cut holes accommodate your gas line. And your electric line. Concerning yourself with how you will be plugging in your new wine cooler, once your outdoor kitchen has been completed, is a concern which you simply will not have.
In regard to liners you can use with your appliances, Utah-based Blackstone, or Ontario, Canada-based Napoleon, or EdgeStar (one of the retail brands under Virginia-based Ferguson) are some of the popular choices that I see today.
We started with lumber, which brought us to appliance liners. Due to the fact that lumber is combustible. Let’s segue back to lumber. To one of the major components involved in building your outdoor kitchen: framing.
Thinking About Becoming a Real Estate Developer?When it comes to framing your outdoor kitchen, 24” framing – I.e.: 24” on center – is a likely selection. With this type of framing, your wall studs will be 24 inches apart. As measured from the center of one stud to the center of the next stud.
24” on center is advisable when building your outdoor kitchens. There are a few good reasons for this. So let’s speak to a few of those…
With 24” on center – compared to 16” on center – you will use fewer studs.
With 16” on center, you measure 16 inches from the center of one stud to the center of your next stud. That distance – with 16” on center – is 16 inches. A distance of 16 inches – from the center of one stud, to the center of the next stud – is 8 inches less than you have with 24” on center.
With 24” on center, it’s simple. You need fewer studs. With 16” on center – due to the reduced distance between studs – you use more studs.
Choosing to go with 24”on center enables you to reduce material costs. As well as labor costs. Fewer studs. Fewer hours spent erecting studs.
One determinant for going with either 16” on center or 24” on center is load bearing walls.
With your home, walls support load bearing walls. Your outdoor kitchen won’t have load-bearing walls. No need to go with 16” on center. 24” on center is fine.
So…a fun recommendation. How about using the savings you get by going with 24” on center to consider adding a “Rolex of a grill” to your enhanced outdoor living space. A Mont Albi.
Ted Ihde author of “Thinking About Becoming A Real Estate Developer?”
Today, a real estate developer and a licensed real estate broker, Ted graduated Summa Cum Laude from Bloomfield College.
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