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The feedback from the neighbors is this outdoor kitchen by RTA is the talk of the town. They love it. If others really want an outdoor kitchen, it’s not well, you got to contact this GC and his numbers on the side of a van. They can
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go to RTA’s website and use the design tool and start today in creating their dream kitchen and the rest is virtually done for you.
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So, we are the Coonies. We are at our little humble abode. Uh, we just moved outside the city. Um, I’m Ashley. This is our beautiful daughter, Belle. And >> and I am Kevin Cooney. The designs of this kitchen, we did an L-shaped 6′ by 9
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ft bar here. The grill is 36 in. It’s a Coyote grill. I’ve cooked on all Blackston. I’ve, you know, your um charcoal grills. This grill. >> Yeah. I don’t know if it’s cheating with a coyote grill. I cannot cook a fairly
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decent steak. >> Yeah. Yeah. I won’t lie. He’s not great at the grilling thing, but we’ve gotten a lot of practice with some of which is you’re getting better. >> Getting really good. Really in a step in the right direction. >> Yeah. Yeah. It’s not well done. You’re
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learning. >> And I think the grill’s really helping you. >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> Custom refrigerator in there. Two can trash can. Four seats we fit at that bar. >> Yeah. I think the size of it is perfect because it still allows us like all this space to like hold everybody out here
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and then you and I can comfortably sit at night. It doesn’t like seem scary that it’s like this huge huge huge area. It doesn’t take up too much space, but like it’s it’s just the perfect size. >> It is. It’s the perfect fit. I would say in terms of how accurate their design
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was from the software to real life, I’d say it’s an exact match. Yeah, >> it looks exactly how size-wise to our level of expectations, it would say it exceeded what we saw online in person. Having that design tool on RT’s website
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was for me probably the game changer. >> Yeah, >> I knew nothing about what the options or limitations were with an outdoor kitchen. And I was able to log on and use that design feature and customize everything from the shape of the bar,
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materials used. Mhm. It’s also nice that we didn’t have to wait a long time for that. You know what I mean? Like a lot of things it’s like, “Oh, tell us what you’d like. >> We’ll try to sketch something up.” You don’t hear back from places. So, this was so nice that you had like the free will to do it on your own and like see it right away and play with it too and
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>> work things around. So, that was really fun cuz we honestly didn’t know what we wanted, >> right? The color of the top and what material that was going to be, whether it’s going to be concrete or marble. It’s probably the most userfriendly tool.
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kitchen. I’ll open up my laptops right now. We can do it on the spot. Look at this. But we don’t know how to We’re not design people. We’re not
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>> We like clean. >> We like things to match. We have our inspo pitches, but we have no idea really what else to do from there. We don’t have that creativity. So having someone who that’s what they do for their specialty in their job, we can talk and they can put it down really helps,
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>> right? You know, you you submit a design and then you never know what’s next. RTA updates you every step of the way. You know exactly what’s to come on a timeline standpoint of when to expect a delivery. Um what the install process will be like. It arrives on two pallets
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which was dropped off right in the driveway. >> Mhm. and Phil and Josh here come over and crack those things open and we were off and racing. If you thought I couldn’t cook steaks, you should see me with a power tool because it’s not pretty. I even think we have footage of
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that. It’s not >> going to go. >> It ain’t good. Okay. >> There you go. >> Boom. >> We’re in. So, we’ll do those first. >> So, our team is with you every step of the way, making this process start to finish as as easy as it can be. Each
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each piece you’re seeing is a full panel. So, it fits together almost like a Lincoln log setup. We had this up maybe I’m going to say start to finish all in and we were
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chatty for a while. Probably 30 minutes. >> Oh, there we go. Perfect. Easy. >> Cool. And leveling it out like it was it was easy. I mean, >> I think that’s like the like the extra pro of having a designer and like their expertise is like it’s already it’s done
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perfectly. it, you know, it’s not like you and I are trying to run and buy things and put it together. It would it would be lopsided and crooked like they know what they’re doing. So, >> we received the shipment, assembled it in a very short amount of time, and that night we’re grilling.
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>> Ooh, the quality of of the construction and durability, especially being in New England with the winters that we have, probably one of my biggest concerns. Everything is loctite, sealed, weatherproof, you know, right down to on the
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insulation side. I was able to learn about ultra high performance concrete, which seals it in all winter long. Why Why is this so thin? This is going to be able to hold a a grill. And >> yeah, so uh just uh our highdensity concrete, the strength of it um with the
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fiber ring and rebar we add to it. We’re ultra confident that this is going to support our concrete tops, our granite tops, any size grill you want to throw on here. And honestly, it’s a lot more easy to work with than let’s say cinder blocks or any of some of the other u
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steel systems to put together. Very simple. Look, we put this base together in 10 minutes. >> Literally, I’m blown away by how fast it’s coming along. >> Yeah. But >> we’ll have to strap it up. Phil was sleeping over. So, >> looks great. >> I mean, even typical New England, it’s
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just been a monsoon >> since we’ve had that thing. And it’s been >> great. Yeah. You wouldn’t even know. >> Yeah, it holds up incredible. For those in New England, it’s it’s the perfect outdoor kitchen. So, it’s really, you know, one point of contact. RTA has
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sourced everything for you. Yeah. I don’t have to go find, okay, we have the countertops, but now you got to go find the appliances or, you know, whereas like in our kitchen. >> Oh, yeah. >> To your point, it’s been delayed for months cuz we got to find appliances. We got to go to a stone yard to pick out
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which granite we’re going to get. That’s like a whole day endeavor right there that we got to schedule. You know, you got to paint, you got to hook hook up gas lines. >> Y >> I mean, this being propane especially was >> as easy as could be. You know,
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>> you can’t beat it. Looking to the future, I’m really excited for a crisp fall day. >> Yeah. >> It’s an NFL Sunday. The stakes are on, beers are cracked, neighbors are over. >> I mean, I think this outdoor kitchen has
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brought you and I closer together. Kevin and I eat out here literally every night that it’s not raining. And we literally sit here and we have the monitor up. We’re watching our baby in the room. We’re like, how amazing is this? like to be sitting outside looking at the house we built together, knowing our little
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baby is right through the door right there. >> Yes. >> So, I think it’s already brought us really close from that. >> Each night it’s kind of our time. We put all the, you know, no TV, no phones. >> Yeah. >> We come out here, it’s quiet, you know, the sun’s setting. It is kind of just
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our our time to relax and hang out. And and that’s all thanks to RTA.
