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Very nice, I recomend putting the feet back under the Egg.
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This is a sweet setup. Exactly what what I want to build. I hope you don't mind me saving your photos for reference. If you don't mind me asking, how much did this thing end up costing?
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WOW! Really nice job. Looks like you will be enjoying cooking a little more. Best of luck with it.
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very nice.was the concrete a special mix?
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Very nice, clean design...How's your back doing??
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Just beautiful!
Not only great looking and very functional, but I'm thinking how any and all cooks on that will taste.
You gotta be proud!
:cheer:John in the Willamette Valley of Oregon -
Very nice. I want to do something like that when I get my egg next month. Did you use any kind of reinforcement in the concrete countertops & shelves?
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Very nice. You will have many years of great cooking with that beautiful island.Larry
Aiken, SC. and
Fancy Gap, Va. -
Hungry Joe wrote:This is a sweet setup. Exactly what I want to build. I hope you don't mind me saving your photos for reference. If you don't mind me asking, how much did this thing end up costing?
I can give you a pretty good idea:
10 bags Quikrete countertop mix @ 12.05 = $120.00
220 bricks @ $1.99 each = $440.00
Other smaller expenses (can't remember the exact prices):
20 bags of paver base
5 tubes of brick glue
1 4'x8' melamine board
1 tube black silicone
1 gallon concrete sealer
I figure I spent about $600 maybe.
I had two people come out to the house and give me quotes on the project and they both priced out at over $2000.00! (This included a granite/quartz countertop, bricks & labor).
The way I look at it, I saved a TON of $$$ doing it myself and this structure is going to be here long after I'm gone!Packerland, Wisconsin -
Serial Griller wrote:How's your back doing??
I was hurting for a few days. The bricks are 27 lbs a piece so were talking about 6000 lbs. of bricks. It went something like this: stack the bricks onto the truck at the store, unload them from the truck back at home, one by one - build the structure. I believe I got all 220 bricks in about 5 trips. It was a LONG day.Packerland, Wisconsin -
no-eggspert wrote:Did you use any kind of reinforcement in the concrete countertops & shelves?
I bent a 10 foot 3/8" piece of rebar into a "U" shape in the section of concrete that goes around the egg.
No reinforcement in the other 3 sections of concrete.
The Quikreke countertop mix is suppose to be really strong on its own. We'll see!Packerland, Wisconsin -
AWESOME Island you have there. Very nicely done.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Very nice job, never heard of counter top mix. Great design I will keep this in mind not sure if I like the idea of granite outside. This way I could do a colored concrete top. Thanks for sharing.. You should post on the Naked Wiz site.
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tacodawg wrote:Very nice job, never heard of counter top mix. Great design I will keep this in mind not sure if I like the idea of granite outside. This way I could do a colored concrete top. Thanks for sharing.. You should post on the Naked Wiz site.
Yeah, you can't find the countertop mix in stores - at least in my area. But any store that carries the Quikrete brand will order it for you.
Granite looks great but I priced it out at almost 10x the price that I could make the concrete counterop!!!
That was a big enough price difference that I started reading everything I could online about how to build your own concrete countertops. There's a lot of step-by-step articles and videos out there. You really don't need any former experience, I didn't know a thing about concrete before I started this project! My neighbor also provided some advice, tools and muscle to the concrete part of the project. Those slabs are heavy!
Countertop mix:
http://www.quikrete.com/productlines/countertopmixpro.aspPackerland, Wisconsin -
Very nice indeed, that has to be one happy Egg not to mention yourself. Hope you had a few cold ones after each step in the construction.
Then again it look straight so at least you were in control. :laugh: :laugh:
Great Work,
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That's very cool!
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