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booksw
booksw Posts: 500
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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.
Johns Is, SC

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  • lkapigian
    lkapigian Posts: 11,549
    Great view especially if that's your yard 
    Visalia, Ca @lkapigian
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  • mEGG_My_Day
    mEGG_My_Day Posts: 1,661
    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!! 
    Memphis, TN 

    LBGE, 2 SBGE, Hasty-Bake Gourmet
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  • bgebrent
    bgebrent Posts: 19,636
    Beautiful set up. Savanna?
    Sandy Springs & Dawsonville Ga
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  • booksw
    booksw Posts: 500
    Johns Island SC- just outside of Charleston
    Johns Is, SC

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  • smbishop
    smbishop Posts: 3,061
    Looks perfect!
    Southlake, TX and Cowhouse Creek - King, TX.  2 Large, 1 Small and a lot of Eggcessories.
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  • SmokeyPitt
    SmokeyPitt Posts: 10,490
    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. 

    Which came first the chicken or the egg?  I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg. 

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  • bgebrent
    bgebrent Posts: 19,636
    Nice brother. 
    Sandy Springs & Dawsonville Ga
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  • booksw
    booksw Posts: 500
    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?
    Johns Is, SC

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  • jtcBoynton
    jtcBoynton Posts: 2,814
    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.
    Southeast Florida - LBGE
    In cooking, often we implement steps for which we have no explanations other than ‘that’s what everybody else does’ or ‘that’s what I have been told.’  Dare to think for yourself.
     
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  • stlcharcoal
    stlcharcoal Posts: 4,757
    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.
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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,330
    Clean setup, I like it!  
    "First method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
           - Niccolo Machiavelli

    Ogden, UT, USA

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  • northGAcock
    northGAcock Posts: 15,173
    bgebrent said:
    Beautiful set up. Savanna?
    Brent....you got nothing that gawjus in Georgia. What kind of question is that?
    Ellijay GA with a Medium & MiniMax

    Well, I married me a wife, she's been trouble all my life,
    Run me out in the cold rain and snow
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  • booksw
    booksw Posts: 500
    We added the “feet” plus another spot for the Mini Max: 


    Johns Is, SC

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  • HarrisFrampton
    HarrisFrampton Posts: 104
    Great set-up.
    Wimberley,TX
    X-Large,Large, Medium and Small
    17" and 28" Blackstones
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  • mahenryak
    mahenryak Posts: 1,324
    Extremely picturesque.  Nice.
    LG BGE, KJ Jr, Smokin Bros. Premier 36 and Pizza Party Bollore



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  • whta
    whta Posts: 62
    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....
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  • booksw
    booksw Posts: 500
    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.
    Johns Is, SC

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