Built-in grills, outdoor kitchens and covered living space built for North Texas heat, hail and Blackland clay.
Guides
How this work actually gets specified, costed and built — and the problems worth designing around. Written from public sources, with the references on every page.
The gas code writes its appliance rules around a room. A built-in grill island is not one, and that changes the shutoff valve, the connector and what may pass through the island wall.
Read the guide →The flexible gas line feeding a built-in grill carries a bonding rule with a distance in it, and one CSST segment added to an all-steel house brings the whole system under that rule.
Read the guide →Add a roof and enough walls and a grill island crosses a line in the mechanical code. What the 400 cfm makeup air trigger means, and why it turns on a phrase about air barriers.
Read the guide →Gas clearances in a built-in outdoor kitchen are measured to things that move — doors, drawers, shelving. What the fuel gas code requires, and where island designs go wrong.
Read the guide →DFW sat 139 straight hours at or below freezing in February 2021. The damage that does to outdoor plumbing is found in April, not February — and what to design in now.
Read the guide →Call (940) 289-7742 or request a callback — whichever is easier.