Building an outdoor BBQ/Kitchen over PVC pipes?

[RichTJ99]

Hi,

My pool is about 30 years old. I have been thinking about putting an outdoor kitchen in at the pool for a few years. I had my mason start digging out the area that I wanted to put it & we discovered some pipes.

Here is my pool.

http://i.imgur.com/hsej8EH.jpg

The plan was to put it in the back left corner which was a 'planted' area - basically it would grow weeds in the summer & get out of control.

So our plan was to have a BBQ / Bar facing the pool house (something similar to this: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/0e/60/c3/0e60c3015469c732e9e93b751b6c670e.jpg)

Going say 8' x 8'.

However now i found this:

http://i.imgur.com/eb7r5uu.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/uV43C7f.jpg


The discussion with the mason was to make the entrance into the 'kitchen' with a 5" step up (covering / encapsulating the PVC pipes) in concrete (digging a few inches below the pipes). Then raise the whole area inside the kitchen 6".

My concerns are

1. If the new slab moves & breaks all my pool pipes - that would be a big problem.
2. The extra weight of the BBQ on the slab (which the existing pvc pipes are sitting) - damaging the pipes.


Any thoughts or comments?

Thanks,
Rich

 

[YippeeSkippy]

How about changing it over toward the larger right side area where there seems to be a large cement square area?

Yip

sidenote: that's a heckofa pool!

 

[triptyx]

Personally, I think my bigger concern would be needing to access those pipes to fix a leak or other problem and having to tear up the kitchen to do so. I think Skippy has the right approach.

 

[RichTJ99]

So I think I am leaning towards something like this:

http://i.imgur.com/ttekkVf.jpg

Line each side with a footer / Belgium block then get a 5'x2' piece of bluestone to lay over the blocks creating a cover but still having it accessible.