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TheBeagle · Sep 27, 2023

Finally finished this outdoor kitchen/patio cover/fireplace.

Sanrith Descartes · Sep 27, 2023

TheBeagle said:
Finally finished this outdoor kitchen/patio cover/fireplace.
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I wish your company was in Florida. We still dont have an accepted quote. Companies here have been on "pool maintenance" fulltime since the hurricane a few weeks ago. Finally got another company coming out to give me a quote on Friday.

edit: Very nice work, btw

Fogel · Sep 27, 2023

Is that an outdoor dishwasher to keep the Mrs. working while enjoying the summer days?

TheBeagle · Sep 27, 2023

Fogel said:
Is that an outdoor dishwasher to keep the Mrs. working while enjoying the summer days?

Fridge, griddle, egg

lurkingdirk · Sep 27, 2023

TheBeagle said:
Finally finished this outdoor kitchen/patio cover/fireplace.
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That look like some really good work, and it really is beautiful. If I had one thing to nitpick at it would be the arch over the fireplace. It's too striped. I would have gone with either a dark mortar that matched the darker bricks so it is an uninterrupted accent, or gotten lighter stone.

Either way, I'm being mighty picky. Can you give us a rough approximation of what that cost start to finish? I can't remember if you did already.

Edit: also, where is the fridge?

TheBeagle · Sep 27, 2023

lurkingdirk said:
That look like some really good work, and it really is beautiful. If I had one thing to nitpick at it would be the arch over the fireplace. It's too striped. I would have gone with either a dark mortar that matched the darker bricks so it is an uninterrupted accent, or gotten lighter stone.

Either way, I'm being mighty picky. Can you give us a rough approximation of what that cost start to finish? I can't remember if you did already.

Edit: also, where is the fridge?

Fridge is on the far left. It was in the $50's.
We don't do custom mortar colors. Grey or white, that's it.

lurkingdirk · Sep 27, 2023

TheBeagle said:
We don't do custom mortar colors. Grey or white, that's it.

Bitch.

lurkingdirk · Sep 27, 2023

TheBeagle said:
Fridge is on the far left. It was in the $50's.
We don't do custom mortar colors. Grey or white, that's it.

Also, that's not a dishwasher, but a fridge? Never seen one with that handle configuration.

TheBeagle · Sep 27, 2023

lurkingdirk said:
Bitch.

Correction: grey, white, and buff which is slightly more tan than the white. It goes well with all the Leuders we do.

Also those bricks were done at the homeowners request to match the fireplace in their living room. Same brick, same mortar.

Homeowner supplied his own appliances so that fridge is whatever. I just made a hole for it and plugged it in.

Sanrith Descartes · Sep 27, 2023

As interest rates keep moving higher, are people still financing pools and backyard kitchen? Or is it more of a pay when it's complete thing now?

TheBeagle · Sep 27, 2023

Sanrith Descartes said:
As interest rates keep moving higher, are people still financing pools and backyard kitchen? Or is it more of a pay when it's complete thing now?

People are still financing. It slowed down quite a bit after the initial shock but now that people are getting used to the higher interest rates and realize they aren't coming back down any time soon things are picking back up. We had a pretty brutal summer this year in n. Texas so that helped too.

TheBeagle · Sep 29, 2023

Another out of the ordinary job completed this week. Pavilion with a sunken kitchen, swim up bar, black travertine coping, black granite tops, turf, and a fire feature behind the spa.

Burns · Sep 29, 2023

TheBeagle said:
Another out of the ordinary job completed this week. Pavilion with a sunken kitchen, swim up bar, black travertine coping, black granite tops, turf, and a fire feature behind the spa.
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How does the kitchen drain when the Texas Floods inevitably come?

Hateyou · Sep 29, 2023

Burns said:
How does the kitchen drain when the Texas Floods inevitably come?

It’s right fucking there

Burns · Sep 29, 2023

Hateyou said:
It’s right fucking there

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Larnix · Sep 29, 2023

So with the kitchen right there is everyone going to be eating all their food while in the pool? I love a swim up bar but I'm not sure i would want to feed my friends and family in the pool.

BrutulTM · Sep 30, 2023

Just put a big InSinkErator in the drain and you can just throw your chicken wing bones right in the pool!

Lanx · Sep 30, 2023

lurkingdirk said:
Also, that's not a dishwasher, but a fridge? Never seen one with that handle configuration.

yea, and it still swings out, not pull down

weird

Edaw · Sep 30, 2023

Lanx said:
yea, and it still swings out, not pull down

weird

Fogel · Sep 30, 2023

Maybe its to camouflage the fridge as a dishwasher so it scares away the Mrs. and you can keep all your drinks hidden

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