Covering your pit area...

[Yakfishingfool]

Here's my dilemma...I;ve got an 8 x 8 deck with the smokers and grill on it. Slight overhanging all around. I want to cover it with a 10x15ish foot roof...looking for something that I can raise a chimney through from the smoker. Ideally an aluminum cover, but haven;t found anything ideal yet. Some of you must have covered your pit areas...what did you do, use, and would you have done it differently??? Scott

 

[Kevin]

My pit area is covered with steel for the fire safety aspect. I thought about translucent fiber glass panels to let light through, but went with the steel for durability. Be sure to vent the cookers as the second pic demonstrates.

 

[Bevo]

set up

Kevin, man I dig your set up!! Lots of Beer and good times there I bet...

 

[nmayeux]

You can use galvanized steel, but I want to do one with the smoked plastic that they sell at home depot. I would use the steel where the stacks vent.

 

[Kevin]

Kevin, man I dig your set up!! Lots of Beer and good times there I bet...

Yes there have been. That pic is a couple years old. The pool is now to the left.

 

[Kevin]

You can use galvanized steel, but I want to do one with the smoked plastic that they sell at home depot. I would use the steel where the stacks vent.

That was my original intent Noah. I'm just used to working with roofing steel and had some scraps, and the tools to work with them, leftover from different jobs. The smoked fiberglass roofing will be incorporated somewhere here. I like how it lets the light through, yet shades the sun.

I've got 100 feet of fence line to build into my BBQ palace. The bar pic was the original 16 feet. I purchased the house next door (a 100 year old school house) on a tax auction. It will need a lot of work, but my plan is to make it look like an old time general store with a galvanized roof porch out front and a food service legal kitchen inside. Lofty goals yes, but a man's gotta dream.

 

[iceboxbbq]

sounds cool Kevin

 

[Yakfishingfool]

Yeah, I was looking at the smoked plastic set up. About 17 bucks a sheet. Definitely need to punch through it, thus need a wayt ot wrap chimney so water, snow, etc don;t get through. Went to cabela's and found a nice aluminum garge setup for 1200 bucks. Can make a real chimney through it. The company is versatube. Check it out. Scott

 

[sterlingsmoker]

Real nice!! I hope to build one this spring

 

[bbqinNC]

Reference my avatar, I have my pit under this overhang. I had this shed and pavilion built this past summer just for my pit.:-D

http://users.ctc.net/derekshepard/BBQ_Pictures/Shed.JPG

 

[Yakfishingfool]

you didn;t vent the smoker through the roof? Must be a fair amount of buildup inside the roof. Scott

 

[Roaster]

bbqinNC Nice area for the pit

 

[Bigdog]

That was my original intent Noah. I'm just used to working with roofing steel and had some scraps, and the tools to work with them, leftover from different jobs. The smoked fiberglass roofing will be incorporated somewhere here. I like how it lets the light through, yet shades the sun.

I've got 100 feet of fence line to build into my BBQ palace. The bar pic was the original 16 feet. I purchased the house next door (a 100 year old school house) on a tax auction. It will need a lot of work, but my plan is to make it look like an old time general store with a galvanized roof porch out front and a food service legal kitchen inside. Lofty goals yes, but a man's gotta dream.

So are you planning on selling BBQ from the old school house?

 

[Kevin]

So are you planning on selling BBQ from the old school house?

Possibly catering. I turn down a lot of catering offers because I don't have the proper facilities and licensing. Just want to have all of the tools to do it right.

More than likely just a place to go drink beer in the winter!

 

[Bigdog]

Possibly catering. I turn down a lot of catering offers because I don't have the proper facilities and licensing. Just want to have all of the tools to do it right.

More than likely just a place to go drink beer in the winter!

Cool. Kevin's Playhouse, this school house rocks!!

 

[Jorge]

Here's my dilemma...I;ve got an 8 x 8 deck with the smokers and grill on it. Slight overhanging all around. I want to cover it with a 10x15ish foot roof...looking for something that I can raise a chimney through from the smoker. Ideally an aluminum cover, but haven;t found anything ideal yet. Some of you must have covered your pit areas...what did you do, use, and would you have done it differently??? Scott

Have you added the extra pipe to the exhaust yet to see how much it is going to effect the draw? If the impact is too great you might consider finding a way to vent it to the side, instead of out the roof.

Edit: A call to Klose might just answer all of your questions. Dave is a pretty sharp guy, and there probably isn't much he hasn't seen.

 

[swamprb]

I've been kicking around ideas for a 12'x12' area for the pits and will probably go with a setup like Kevins, with a steel roof. I have two 4'x8' translucent domed skylights I may incorporate into it also. I found a site that has a lot of ideas for Gazebo type shelters you might be interested in that may look nice on a deck- www.trellisstructures.com. Right now I have a 10x10 steel framed gazebo with a fabric top that looks OK but its not all that weatherproof.

 

[ZILLA]

I would go with corrugated steel at least. It will last longer than fiberglass and is cheaper. I paid $8.65 per sheet plus screws and the top caps. Unless you hard pipe the chimney out the top don't bother with a hood of any sort as it will only work on still days. I just let the smoke go. It's giving the inside the look of an old BBQ joint.

Here are a few shots of the structure. The slab is 10' x 14' and there is a 3' overhang off the back to help keep the wood pile dry.

 

[swamprb]

ZILLA-My wife came in the room as I was checking out your pics and said "that's what you need in the backyard". That is all I need to hear! Nice job!