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I’m looking to make one a table to house my monolith Kamado and store my ooni pizza thing, along with the charcoal and other outside cooking stuff I’ve got.
It’ll be on castors and largely be an enclosed design, think cupboards and drawers, but it’ll have to live outside, mostly uncovered. Yes I’ve looked at stainless ex catering stuff, but there’s nothing in the right size with cupboards.
I was planning on making the framework in 4x2, hadn’t really figured out what to use for the outside that would be weatherproof. But on the top I was hoping to inlay tiles as I have some great blue tiles that would look great, but I’m also not too sure how to do the worktop so I can do this and the top is all flush and one level.
One of the cupboards would have some sort of pull out cupboard that would contain part of my mountain of charcoal.
Any advise on what type of wood I can use to make it weatherproof etc and seal any doors, drawers. And how to do the worktop to inlay tiles..
The unit will be approx 1900mm or so long, 600mm deep
Hopefully by the power of kayak23’s post image post, there could be some images of what I’m hoping to make. (FYI it did need the STW IMG magic)
Sweet chestnut, Douglas fir, larch, cedar, teak and various other exotic hardwoods.
Your design needs to shed water so no ledges that hold water (or shaker style doors are bad)
@joshvegas those woods sound expensive for a glorified bbq table.
Will price up what I can get from champion timber and see where that lands.
Larch and Doug fir are softwoods are quite cheap. Sweet chestnut is also not to bad for a hardwood. All three are fencing materials. It's not going to be b and q 2x4 cheap but it's not going to make your jaw hit the floor.
Personally I'd go Doug fir or larch for your glorified table. Larch in particular as it's being chopped alot at the moment due to sudden oak death (which ironically UK oaks don't particularly suffer from)
I wouldn't so much think about what wood will stand the weather the most, but more about getting a simple cover made that you can whip off when needed.
Wood aside. I bought a table for my Joe 3, first thing I did was put bigger casters on it, I'd go for as big a caster as you can get.
An option might be to buy a stainless catering table and build the cabinet under that. I did exactly that for my old business and it lasted years.
Have you seen https://www.smokeandhammer.com/ you can download full plans and have build videos too
I just made a big table on castors from some left over decking boards for our pizza oven. Then just some plastic boxes for fire lights, dry kindling etc below it. Its not pretty but lasted 3 years outside so far with minimal maintenance.
I guess the key is shedding the water or having some kind of shiplap finish.