[Closed] Outdoor Worksurface

As much as half the Facebook resin pour videos look shite.....I think outdoor worksurface is a great application for a shuttered resin pour worksurface....could do it over any timber you wished then

How about a piece of slate or a granite offcut? You could even use a paving slab.
If you need to use wood Teak or iroko would both work well as they both are quite oily.

am I late to the party suggesting concrete? Has epoxy replaced it, as the choice du jour?

We bought an offset of Quartz kitchen worktop - some sort of stone makes much more sense for an outdoor surface that's going to have water sitting on it.

Granite. We had to replace the wooden ones I made by biscuit jointing joists - they warped and split after 3 years. Admittedly not hard wood, but without a shelter over the kitchen I don't think any horizontal wood will survive rain and shine for a long period.

If you're going iroko get reclaimed, old school laboratory benches are perfect and widely available. Virgin is basically chunks of Congolese rainforest.

Ours is made out of sleepers on some anodised aluminium box frame legs.

When it starts to got a bit rubbish looking I'll just plane the top off. Should be good for a few years 🙂

If I was doing an inbuilt thingie, I'd probably go polished concrete.

I bought a stainless steel catering trolley and use the top of it as a work surface, on block pillars.

As above, stainless steel is the perfect material for being outside. I was fortunate to be at the local pub when they were throwing out a shelved catering table.

@jaminb: now that is awesome. Can I be your friend?

thanks RB. It is still not finished I need to make or source the cupboards and doors, amazingly even with lock down I still haven't found the time. However we did cook and eat out there most dry days this year.

Mines fairly rustic and limited by garden size, I built a wooden base from fence posts and clad it in decking boards.

Old concrete slabs were used for the top.

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Granite - best option by far because, well, it's rock!

Look on eBay for people selling stuff after s kitchen upgrade.

If you're near Chester I've got some you could have.

Thanks all, plenty of food for thought, hadn't considered stainless steel and liking the tbough of picking up some granite off ebay but not sure how id get it cut to size

If fyou go for the resin suggestion be sure to consider UV stability as lots of the resin I have seen are epoxy based so need consideration.

bumping this before it closes as mrs ex-punk has just asked if we can have some sort of outdoor kitchen for pizza making.

i think the worktop will have to be sourced first and then build something around that as itll be difficult to source.

so are we agreeing that granite would be best? so i need to keep a look out for an off-cut on facebook marketplace or something? and the cheapo option (paving slabs) would probably look crap and not ideal for shaping pizzas?

thanks

EDIT: linky link for further reading later.....
https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/outdoor-kitchen-units-ideas/

so are we agreeing that granite would be best?

Absolutely. Lasts forever, completely smooth and is easy to clean.
(for those suggesting stainless - not all stainless is equal.... very much depends on the grade)

and the cheapo option (paving slabs) would probably look crap and not ideal for shaping pizzas?

Most slabs have quite a rough surface, hence our cats use them as back scratchers.

If you tried to wipe down with a cloth, it would probably snag etc.

we have a granite kitchen worktops that extend outdoors under a bifold 4 pane windows, sort of bar area. Works a treat except that any rain that splashes makes the windows dirty with limescale. once or twice a year I need to de-scale