Posted: 7/18/2009 8:50:00 AM EDT
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If I do all the work myself. My vision is a wood fired pizza oven, grill, sink, and gas fire pit. No crazy expensive items like granite counters and a huge grill.
Is there a price range and starter plans for such a task I ask...... We just moved to NM and I am going to enjoy the warmth. |
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It all depends on how nice you want to get and how you want it finished. I've been doing some work for almost the last year and it's cost about 1/5th of what it would have been to hire someone to do it. But I've searched out materials to get the best price and then overbuilt everything.
Are you going to rock everything in? Are you going to buy a pre-assembled fire pit or put it all together yourself with your own design? How are you going to plumb up the sink? Everything I've done I designed myself and haven't used plans for anything. |
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best guess, 5k low end, 7k high,,
if not granite,what are you gonna use for counter top? congrete is too pourous, Cinderblock, way too pourus, be killing people with sickness from bugs, birds and your own leftover grease and such,, Maybe soapstone.. long time used for kitchen counters and cheaper than granite,,of couse the faux granite is OK.. CHEF |
good luck, they are nice!
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Well my thought was to use block on the whole deal. one continuous semicircle of kitchen. Small 24" grill, tile counter, simple little sink just for access to water, not to really use for a lot. The only real thing I would buy is the grill part and the sink. What type of block, like cinder block? I don't know what the cost is where you're at but I built a 18' bar out of austin stone and behind it I put in a sink and walled up an area to put a huge grill. The grill isn't built in, just walled around with the front exposed. I used the stone for some other stuff and I think I bought about 8 tons and it was somewhere around $700 for all of it and I've still got a shit load left, so I could probably do what you're wanting with about $300 worth or so. The sink cost me around $150 for it and all the stuff I used to plumb it up. You'll need a little bit of wood for the counter and tile is cheap. You'll probably need some firebrick or something similar to build up the pizza oven and then you can rock around it as well. Then all you've got left is mortar. If I was going to do it myself then I think I could probably get it done for $1000 or so. ETA: Forgot about the firepit, so it might run a little more. The good firepit equipment can get pretty expensive. Also, do you have gas or are you going to run it on tanked LP? |
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Someone had a thread doing something similar here recently, tons of pics, he and his friend built the whole thing themselves. I can't remember who the team member was though. That was me. 
http://www.theboxotruth.com/pics/backyard108.jpg Got a link to your thread or some more info.... |
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Quoted: Quoted: Someone had a thread doing something similar here recently, tons of pics, he and his friend built the whole thing themselves. I can't remember who the team member was though. That was me. http://www.theboxotruth.com/pics/backyard108.jpg Ahhh, ok, I think you changed your avatar. |
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Got a link to your thread or some more info.... It's in the archive. We've got some more work done so when I upload the new pictures I'll start another thread. But just so you can see.... I started with this 
We also did a lot of rock around the pool and built a rock walk/stairway from the patio down to the pool. 
This was all done 100% by myself and my best friend and neither one of us knew what the hell we were doing when we started. |
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If I do all the work myself. My vision is a wood fired pizza oven, grill, sink, and gas fire pit. No crazy expensive items like granite counters and a huge grill. Is there a price range and starter plans for such a task I ask...... We just moved to NM and I am going to enjoy the warmth. 
Go granite or go home. 
We have a 'wet bar' type thing along with the grill. Not a full outdoor kitchen but a sink, grill, & rotisserie. Nice during the spring and summer. |
