Recent content by zookeeper93

divnkd101 (Mike) Looking around the internet for a sealer for my 4 year old Oklahoma flagstone coping, in which I am experiencing spalling on a few pieces of stone, I found Texas Stone Sealers and low and behold, your photos are what they have on their website as the sample demonstration of...

Our build was very similar to yours a few years ago. We bought one pre-built in 1998 that sat directly on the paver patio. The metal studs rotted out. We elected to build on the same site to access the existing electric and gas lines. Thanks to this forum, we used Trex footers and over three...

Thanks Greg. I can't take credit for the longhorn tiles. At a tile store here (Roma Tile) they carried some work by some guy in Fort Worth who would cut out shapes and contrasting tiles. He had longhorns, the 5 pointed star of Texas and the shape of Texas. Being UT grads, we went for the Horns...

Thanks Dr. Dave. We are finally getting to enjoy grilling once again. The grill is a natural gas grill. When we built our home, our builder put a stub on the side of the house. Before putting in the pavestone patio, we had the gas line run to where the grill island is (for the old BBQG grill...

Well, many months later and we finally got the marble tile on top and the grill hooked back up. Here are finished photos. For the stucco, I mixed type S mortar with some bonder and left it pretty thin. I took a 4 inch stiff paint brush and stippled it on. Once dry, I took a bit of sand paper...

Thanks for the compliments, guys. The other side and end is 85% done. Then there is the top to go, set the grill in and we are ready to get cooking. We had to go buy more mortar for the side and other end. We went to a different Lowes. The second store did not carry the mortar (made by...

While finishing up the pool and lying grass, the grill island was at a stand still. We were also waiting for it to arrive in and then find a weekend where we could work on it. Trex decking is the only way to go. We cut ours in 5-6 inch lengths to use as feet. We wanted water and debris to be...

KSU: The type of cultured stone you use may determine how it needs to be installed? Here in Texas, we have ordered a product called Tajas Stone. It used to be independant and was owned by a customer of the company my husband works for. PaveStone Company has since bought it out. When talking to...

We bought a grill island and DCS drop in grill from our local BBQ Galore (now out of business) in January 1999. BBQG delivered, set up/hooked up and off we went. Fast forward 9 1/2 years. Here is how it sat up until July 2008 The electric in this photo is being re-routed for the pool...

<<<<Dr. Dave Writes>>>>I advocate a Hardie backer bottom and if you don't need adjustable feet, use Trex squares attached at all corners and intersections. I have a photo on my web site if you want to see how i did my own. Absolutely! Dr. Dave. Saw your photo and I agree, We do not need...

Dr. Dave, We were very disappointed as well. We bought this one strait from BBQGalore. It did come with a 1/4 cement fiber board bottom but it Disintegrated into many pieces. You can even tell where the layers were separating. It was not hardiebacker. The new one is on 1/2 hardie on the bottom...

Hello Cobra, Once we found the damage-by moving it and the bottom cement board falling off and apart, we checked our pavestone patio for low spots, where water may have pooled. We never noticed pooling but you never know. Once the grill was out of the way, and before the arbor was built, we did...

Hi Dave, Thanks for the compliments and advice. We did put in two vents. We vented it on both ends. Hard to see in the small photo above where you see the grill cut out on the left (vent on the end) and the door cutout on the right (vent on that end). We have a natural gas line already that...

Hopefully, these pics will come thru. After much thinking today, we decided to do cultured stone (light weight concrete) for the front (with overhand) backside of grill and one end. The other end (facing fence) and the interior will be some sort of hand applied finish. Getting started A...

Sorry, the photos did not come out like they did in another forum.