New Set Up

booksw

We’ve been playing around with a few different set ups and this is the one that seems to be working the best so we went ahead and painted it.  So far so good- lots of counters that take hot things and no drawers/cabinets to accumulate dust.  We hadn’t wanted to go with wood again but figured with this do-it-yourself painted-treated-lumber design, it should be easy enough to tweak or fix if needed.

lkapigian

Great view especially if that's your yard 

mEGG_My_Day

Nice setup and really nice view!  I’m extremely jealous of you folks who live by the coast and have access to great fresh seafood!! 

bgebrent

Beautiful set up. Savanna?

booksw

Johns Island SC- just outside of Charleston

smbishop

Looks perfect!

SmokeyPitt

Beautiful view and a cool setup. Forgive my old eyes but is it wood that it is sitting on?  If so I would consider a table nest or some other method of raising it up a bit. 

bgebrent

Nice brother. 

booksw

SmokeyPitt said:

Beautiful view and a cool setup. Forgive my old eyes but is it wood that it is sitting on?  If so I would consider a table nest or some other method of raising it up a bit. 

It’s sitting on a bluestone tile- the countertop is also made up of bluestone tiles.  We still have the old big green egg “feet” and thought of adding those but decided against it.  Our old set up was a teak table made by Komodo joe.  We had a concrete tile under the egg in that table so we figured this bluestone would work just as well?

jtcBoynton

Air gaps provide an order of magnitude greater protection from heat transfer than concrete, which provides an order of magnitude greater protection from heat transfer than natural stones.

stlcharcoal

booksw said:

SmokeyPitt said:

Beautiful view and a cool setup. Forgive my old eyes but is it wood that it is sitting on?  If so I would consider a table nest or some other method of raising it up a bit. 

It’s sitting on a bluestone tile- the countertop is also made up of bluestone tiles.  We still have the old big green egg “feet” and thought of adding those but decided against it.  Our old set up was a teak table made by Komodo joe.  We had a concrete tile under the egg in that table so we figured this bluestone would work just as well?

Tile or concrete is a conductor of heat, not an insulator.  If the Egg is sitting on it, it's going to get just as hot as the base.  So, even if it doesn't get hot enough to light the table on fire, you're losing BTU's to it.  Get the feet or a table nest underneath it, then make sure you have some cross bracing under that tile in case it cracks.  I can only see the to boards running longways, so maybe you already have that.

Botch

Clean setup, I like it!  

northGAcock

bgebrent said:

Beautiful set up. Savanna?

Brent....you got nothing that gawjus in Georgia. What kind of question is that?

booksw

We added the “feet” plus another spot for the Mini Max: 

HarrisFrampton

Great set-up.

mahenryak

Extremely picturesque.  Nice.

whta

I agree with stlcharcoal - make sure you have some type of cross brace in case your bluestone tile cracks.  Otherwise, looks great, and the view sure doesn't suck either!

How are the no-see-ums in the summer....

booksw

For whatever reason the noseeums haven’t been too bad this year- plus we almost always have a breeze- they tend to come around when the air is still.