We don't have a subforum for this, but this is wild...
This house is for sale near me, and has the Thor outdoor kitchen in it, but it's not in a screened in porch... it's IN the house. Ok cool there's a hood vent above the grill... but not the pizza oven? Anyway, thought this was worth sharing.
If not cooking outdoors, I am cooking on the stovetop with my 14" carbon steel wok, 12" CI skillet, or in the oven with my two Lodge CI pizza pans, or two dutch ovens. I've also got a nifty Lodge carbon steel grill pan that rocks for veggies outdoors.
Yeah none of that is to code. The vent won't exhaust enough for sure. I think you would need a commercial high volume vent hood over the grill, and the pizza oven would need a triple insulated exhaust flue through the ceiling. AND the entire room needs a bunch of air inlet to provide combustion air and oxygen for all that.
With that brick wall, I halfway wonder if this WAS on a porch, but they closed it in recently, around the grill.
It’s just a very bad idea. Designers sometimes miss the boat completely. The wife showed me one of her designer tv shows. The idols had installed a pull out sand box, complete with sand, that pulled out from under the bed in a child’s room. Can you imagine the mess on that floor after the kid plays in it. Or what interesting things that will happen when the cat discovers it? Just another bad idea for the sake of being different.
My Dads house in CO had a rock climbing wall from the basement to the 3rd floor... he filled it with sand... he had cats... I happened to be stationed in CO at the time but thankfully missed the "pleasure" of wheel barrowing the sand out and pea gravel in after all the skidsteer accessible areas were obviously framed and sealed in. My dads a pretty smart architect, but nobody is perfect
I wrote a long paragraph about all the issues I noted, but erased it because it was getting too long. Summary: No proper exhaust ventilation or makeup air, improper installation, side wall clearances, fuel supply issues, and in my mind the worst offenses are lack of CO detection and also lack of properly sized fire extinguishers. Move it outside under cover or talk to someone who knows what needs to get installed to make it safe.
I’m not a betting man but I do know if there is a fire or other incident centered on that room they might as well kiss any insurance payouts good bye once the fire marshal or insurance inspector writes up their report.
The ceiling fan is also wild to me, I would assume that indoors you wouldn't want possible air interference between the (assuming the had appropriate ones) exhausts and the grill or pizza oven... same goes for fireplace assuming it's functional with an external flue/chimney
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I would too, in this town if I had a million bucks I wouldn't have neighbors. Stupid Raleigh folks keep trying to build houses at prices that don't belong here in spots they don't belong. Plenty of massive lots with convenient access to the highway, there's no reason for this build.
SheilaAnn I've got a lot of friends from California that are ending up places like Tennessee, Texas and even here in Alabama. Just saying.... your $ goes a lot lot further outside California. Or at least the coastal cities. And I can't remember the last time we had a mud slide, earthquake, or forest fire that threatened everything here in Alabama. Our main danger is tornado season.
If not cooking outdoors, I am cooking on the stovetop with my 14" carbon steel wok, 12" CI skillet, or in the oven with my two Lodge CI pizza pans, or two dutch ovens. I've also got a nifty Lodge carbon steel grill pan that rocks for veggies outdoors.
The other thing about it all is that Thor would never sell or warrant that as an indoor grill or pizza oven. And looking at their website, that pizza oven is WOOD BURNING. Idiots.
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I know nothing about building code and construction, and that all looks horribly wrong, poorly done and unsafe.
All that aside, what an incredibly cold and uninviting space. It would make me anxious to sit there, or work there; it actually looks like it’s working to make people leave it.
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