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oh there’s the kitchen that we’re going to be taking out and replacing let’s take a look at it well might be a couple dead animals in there its stuck kind of sold me on the house and didn’t work so this is really a big moment of redemption
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hey what’s going on it’s James here with the RTA Outdoor Living we’re in Fullerton California and we’re about to meet the Chon family we heard they needed an outdoor kitchen makeover and we’re going to make that happen hey RTA my name is Kevin I’m here in Fullerton California and I’d be
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excited uh to work with you guys to remodel my outdoor kitchen currently uh I bought this house about a year ago I was super excited to get to use this outdoor kitchen but obviously right now I don’t. I’d be excited to learn more about
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the possibility to work with you guys and if that sounds great uh we love to hear from you let’s go check out the backyard oh there’s the kitchen that we’re going to be taking out and replacing let’s take a look at it wow look at this thing oh the tile countertops don’t hold up very well
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that’s why we don’t recommend those let’s take a look at this refrigerator it doesn’t not sure what’s going on there got some weird alarm system when you open it doesn’t look like it works either let’s take a look at the sink pretty small sink that we’re working with
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here so challenge is that there’s really not a lot of functionality with it you can’t wash dishes you can’t do much of anything let’s wow not a lot of water pressure it looks more like a drinking fountain than a than a sink
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side burner looks in decent shape looks pretty nasty but you know all in all looks decent the grill let’s open this thing up oh boy looks pretty nasty burners look like they’re all rusted out you know the other thing about looking if I’m
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looking at this not a lot of counter space to really do anything on either side of the grill which makes it a little challenging when you’re going to prep food so well might be a couple dead animals in there let’s take a look at what’s going on here I’m not
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really sure it looks like there’s racks for serving trays kind of interesting there’s some more storage down here and looks like a cooler of some sort but not great looking and I’m not sure how you insulate so imagine that ice melts pretty quick
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let’s take a look look at what we got going on here uh appears to be a space for a trash can to sit but wouldn’t be really convenient because you’d have to fill it up and then pull it out aside from the structural issues that we have with these tile countertops
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there’s some structural damage that’s happening right here on the stucco I’m imagining that it’s because it’s a multi-layered system so that’s the challenge that you have is over time they’re structurally going to start to fall apart
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if I take a glance at everything you know I’m actually not seeing any designed ventilation which is a huge challenge that you have with having a gas grill and a gas burner in there because if gas accumulates inside there’s really no way for it to escape so that’s
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actually a huge safety concern that you have and it’s one that we see quite often uh around the country is just people not designing ventilation into their outdoor kitchen and the last thing I’m noticing is if you look at this space there’s actually no area for guests to
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congregate for the host to actually serve them and really make them part of the space so what we’re going to have to do here is design a whole place with bar seating so that their guests can come and you know have a place to sit and have a place for the guests to entertain them
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alright now that we understand the work that we have cut out for us let’s go ahead and meet the homeowner it’s a long time coming I remember I told you guys that when I first moved in the kitchens what kind
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of sold me on the house and didn’t work so this is really a big moment of Redemption super stoked Kevin hey James nice to meet you man so excited you guys are here today I can’t wait to just tear this out and get a new RTA kitchen
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well we can’t wait for the transformation either but talk us through the process and kind of your thoughts around purchasing a home that included an outdoor kitchen so when my wife and I were looking one of the main things that we wanted was
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an outdoor kitchen and so when I saw this I was like this is it you know it was a big selling point for me for this house and you know there’s a saying it’s good from far but far from good and once we bought the house and I started inspecting a
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little bit the burners all rusted through it wasn’t really the level that I wanted okay was the outdoor kitchen part of the inspection process when purchasing the home it was but I realize um they said it worked but that’s a big difference than
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usable just the deeper you dig you realize what things are really like underneath the surface and so just one of those things you know I wish my inspector did a better job um but well you got to you got to roll with the punches
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well you definitely have the space for it the backyard’s Beautiful so it’s perfect we just got to get something that’s obviously a little bit more functional I guess talk us through how you envisioned using the kitchen and kind of like what your thoughts were around that
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what I want is a kitchen and space that’s it’s obviously clean functional and a gathering place for my family I just had my first son and so I really believe this is going to be a gathering focal point of the whole family for uh also my friends as well
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my impression of James and RTA is they’re extremely professional uh detail oriented and just really passionate about just outdoor living and cooking all right well we’re excited to get an outdoor kitchen in here that’s going
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to be dependable obviously functional it’s going to last you and your family a lifetime you’ll be the cool neighbor on the Block but first and foremost we got to rip this thing out of here are you ready to start demoing it I can’t wait let’s do it let’s do it James this
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is Jose he’s my amazing landscaper hi James I’m Jose Ponce Landscaping Jose James from RTA very nice meeting you nice to meet you too man you guys ready to start the demo I am ready I’m super excited to get the demo going I’ve never done anything
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like this I think it’s going to be kind of stress relieving as well so super excited Kevin let’s time you take the first swing man let’s do it it’s stuck (laughing) crazy how easy and quick these tiles are coming up because of how brittle they are not a durable surface for an outdoor countertop
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they got these these metal studs inside you can see the cement board’s actually warping (will) cause structural issues on term with the stucco and you know whatever skin or cladding material that you’d use on the outside remember the ice cooler that was right here in the countertop they
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actually just piled pavers up just to hold that up pretty crazy design can’t even recognize this space anymore can’t wait till it’s all cleaned up and got the new one in though might have a little surface prep before we put the new kitchen down but we can knock
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that out as long as it’s a smooth surface that’s all we need right that’s right wow Kevin Jose and those guys made quick work of this thing they’re beasts that was that was a lot quicker than I thought yeah they were like machines over here so the good news is we already have the
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utility lines in place so we have you know electrical looks like in a couple locations you the gas line right here for the grill and we got water right there so we just basically got to design things around those and and work off of what we have
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I liked kind of the location of the sink and the grill so I think it’s going to be really easy to still use the existing stub outs and gas and electrical well good news is you’re working with the experts so we can get everything dialed in um but first
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let’s just take some measurements just to see what we’re working with all right let’s do that 130 awesome all right let’s brainstorm here talk to me about your you know aspirations as far as design and layout
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I love the idea that this is in itself just a full kitchen I don’t need to run in and out so storage is really important okay obviously the sink I want a nice Grill uh dreamless would be a smoker okay and um I think uh I need a burner as well and my wife we’re thinking
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about kids and parties like sure kind of like a pizza oven might be just a cherry on top look what I put together just as an initial concept wow we’ll have this sit on that left side got the sink there so we have a water you already put everything I had asked for and even more this is awesome
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the cool thing is I’m going to send this over to one of our expert designers Daniel okay so let’s get on a call with him and he can further refine and kind of revise the details for us sounds good let’s go destroying the old kitchen was just really refreshing uh just getting a
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clean slate to build exactly what I wanted is just super exciting awesome Daniel I’m here with Kevin we just came inside from the demo I wanted you to really work with Kevin to refine some of those design details and just get this design dialed in for him hey Daniel nice to meet you
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Kevin pleasure to meet you man sounds like you guys are having some fun over there doing some demolition oh yeah Kevin took the first swing awesome man well I I was taking a look at a few of the pictures that James had sent over but maybe you can tell me a little bit about how you intend to
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use the space and you know what would be important for you and your family I really want to have you know the appliances and just features that would really help me do that better uh seating area talked about a pizza oven that would be really fun and so just being
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able to have everything there so I don’t have to run in and out uh which will be really awesome you know that’s kind of one of the first things that came to James and I’s mind is you know you have this beautiful space for entertainment but there’s nowhere to hang out
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would be nice to have somewhere to kind of sit and and lean up against the way you kind of intend to use the space Kevin is you know obviously maximizing on uh your entertainment space giving your guests some place to hang out but uh as far as cooking is concerned
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you know what what kind of a or what size of a grill do you think uh you’d like to see out there I’m not exactly sure you know I’ve looked at grills in the past I wasn’t sure how to size it sometimes it’s a small group and sometimes it’s a little larger
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a 36in grill is normally the most common size grill for residential use and I think it’s kind of like that perfect size for you know when you’re cooking for just you and your family but once you do if you do bring some of the neighborhood uh guests over you’ve got plenty of real estate to uh
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to work with on the grill and I know you mentioned the pizza oven so kind of making the pizza oven the focal point here in the corner I think is a great way to to um give your guest something to look at be entertained with but also just kind of creating a main focal point in the space
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that pizza oven looks amazing I shared my concern about the pizza oven wasn’t sure I always wanted to get a fire going and said why don’t you get a hybrid model which also has gas never even knew that existed also the grill
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sizing I just I have no idea what size to get you know there’s so many options he really narrowed it down by asking me the right questions of how often I’m hosting how many people and the layout of the seating as well we we took into consideration the orientation of the Sun and
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where the shades going to be it’s just really next level and just so thoughtful in how they do it here on the left hand side we’re thinking this could be your main entertainment space right getting your guests together letting them hang out sit at the bar while someone’s hosting you
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know you can sit back here use the grill use the power burner the griddle and that’s what you see here on the left is a power burner so that’ll be awesome for being able to cook like a Teppanyaki type of style dishes for your guest and on the bar I think you know one of the things
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I noticed here in this original design is the refrigerator on the complete opposite side you know not really too convenient for you or your guest so let’s move that refrigerator closer to the bar side um that way it just is a little bit more convenient for them to access but
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I’m super excited to have a clean slate a new u-shaped layout where I can host people and gather and just functionally and layout just works so much better it’s going to be awesome I think this is looking great I think really what we should talk about James is some
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aesthetics for the space have you guys kind of talked about what the vibe is out there like the existing uh kitchen setup was that weird kind of tan color it look a little dated a more modern aesthetic that’s going to match the future look of the house
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is kind of what I’m going for keeping it clean and easy to maintain is something important especially being outside are there certain finishes that you think do that better Daniel you know my thought is bring in introducing the modern concrete we call it modern concrete bright
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um I think it’s going to be a beautiful finish to the space there and kind of update things that looks really nice clean look yeah really clean the good news is all of our finishes are made out of the same exact material so they’re all going
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to be weather resistant we’re going to offer a lifetime warranty on all of those finishes so it’s definitely going to be something that’s going to be here to last you’re not going to have to uh to worry about that in the future but as far as these countertops are concerned
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you know I think granite is really hard to beat concrete can make a really great uh countertop surface but I think if you’re really kind of make it look modern have a surface that’s easy to clean not worried about making a mess on the countertop when
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making pizzas you know I think our Alpha White is is going to be the way to go with this design I really think this color combination is going to match the house really well once I repaint it California beach Vibes right yeah well what do you think James you think uh we get these sent over to to
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uh to the blueprint team so that they can start working on these uh final details yeah I’d say as long as Kevin I mean you happy with how everything looks and everything we’ve discussed so far this is beyond what I was kind of imagining in my head and comparing
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to what I had like this is just on on the next level awesome man I’d say yeah let’s get these uh submitted over to the blueprint team so that they can start uh putting together the blueprints and then we’ll go from there hey let’s do it we’ll be seeing you soon Kevin
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thanks so much Daniel thanks a lot Daniel take care guys the design process in my call with Daniel was really easy Daniel is so passionate he’s not just you know a designer he’s a he’s a barbecue griller like he’s a master at it and so I just
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felt and really trusted his recommendations as I was building it out initially I had my design but he took it to that next level uh talking about spacing and which appliances would work better and so I’m super glad he was there to guide me along the way
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Kevin thank you so much for having me today you are one step closer to having a brand new RTA outdoor kitchen that’s going to last you and your family years to come I’m so glad to have that old crusty one out of here I just can’t wait
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till the new one gets here awesome man we we’ll have everything manufactured and shipped out to you in a few weeks and I’ll be back for the installation awesome James appreciate it thank you so much take care it’s going to be hard to wait for the new kitchen but with RTA’s quick
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turnaround I’m still going to have a lot of the summer left over to enjoy with my friend and family and just really hang out and grill outside (Phone Ringing) yep we received Kevin’s order okay I’ll let you know right when it’s ready to ship hi I’m Amanda Corman and I am here in Cambridge
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City Indiana and this is where we custom make all of your kitchens right now we have Kevin’s order ready for production I just want to let you know that Kevin’s order is headed out the door it should be there less than a week and we can’t wait to see it installed in the backyard
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I know send us pictures okay thanks have a good day bye when the crates arrived it was honestly kind of like uh Christmas morning on steroids it was just a lot bigger than I thought I don’t know why I thought differently
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but it’s a big kitchen and just having that all on your driveway was uh really the the moment it all kind of sunk in of hey this is really happening what’s going on James here with RTA Outdoor Living we are back in Fullerton California we’re here to help Kevin get
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his outdoor kitchen set up looks like he’s got everything delivered so let’s get to it Kevin what’s going on good to see you again man good to see you again man all the stuff got here a lot sooner than I thought and it’s a lot it’s a lot bigger than I thought as well
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well it’s a pretty large order we got a lot of crates honestly we’ll have this thing knocked out in no time so we’ll start uncrating man I’m sure you’re excited I can’t wait let’s do it we got one of our Pro installers Frank here to help us out with it good to see you how you doing
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I heard you one RTAs top Pro installers so I’m really excited you’re here done many of them so this is nothing we’ll get this taken care of in no time you’ll be barbecuing with your family tonight I can see a lot has changed since we were last here
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yeah man I just was thinking about it and when I envisioned the RTA kitchen it made me realize like I want the rest of this place to look just as good as the kitchen and so I thought it was worth the upgrade to redo the whole area just making sure the whole
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backyard was flat uh and this is going to be the spot in the whole house so it’s worth it it’s definitely going to help us with the installation today because I know the last time we ripped out the kitchen we found that the patio surface and the substrate was little shaky
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so it would have presented some challenges so I can see you you added the pavers instead of the concrete we got the new pergola system anything else you did back here yeah we truly leveled everything out uh there’s a fire pit and seating area
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around there more landscaping around the side just to kind of make sure that the kitchen had a place adjacent where everyone could gather and just hang out and eat love it man I’m excited to get this thing installed look unbelievable
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so we’ve had you involved at every stage in the process we had you help with the design the demo now we’re at the final stage with the installation let’s get our hands dirty man let’s get involved I’ve been waiting for you to ask me let’s do it awesome let’s go what’s inside? what is this?
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oh they told me they were going to put a surprise in here for you oh this is sweet as a thank you uh for choosing RTA to do your outdoor kitchen we actually sent you a special uh special T-shirt oh man uh we got some barbecue spices and some rubs in here
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oh wow man you guys are ridiculous this is amazing they even sent some meat we got a whole bunch of stuff wow that way when we get this thing set up today you’ll have all the tools and all the items you need to got an RTA Koozie sweet man you guys are awesome local Indiana Place
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huh that’s right Cambridge City local local business that’s right wow this is awesome man thanks so much pretty close to wrapping this thing up yep figured we’d have you uh put together one of the last Islands so we can button up the final details yeah happy to help man awesome
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it’s uh get that in place been watching and it’s a a lot easier than it looks like so just put the angle bracket there just put the angle bracket there make sure they line up with this channel okay it’s going to be magnetic so you can just put a little weight on
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it and just start spinning it’s self tapping so it’ll go right in so we had a blank slate and we started the install but I was kind of intimidated like how we’re going to build this huge kitchen in one day but it’s like Legos they did all the
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hard work at the factory it comes together it’s remarkable it’s a feat of engineering and design to to be able to design something that you can put together so quick like Legos all right Kevin got everything bolted together good work man let’s uh one thing I wanted to
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mention was the utility lines I know you were a little bit uh you were sweating over those to make sure they were in the right placement cool thing about our system as you can see it’s a hollow box so you have a lot of flexibility and a lot of room for air when it comes to your utilities
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the walls are pretty thin not not weak but thin and strong so that it gives a lot more margin of error to put your utilities which is different from your last kitchen yeah so that’s the beauty of our system is you have a lot of
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flexibility with where you can place the utility so everything worked out all right so we’re nearing the final stages here we got the Island construction put together monolithic panels we got custom cutouts for all the appliances countertops are in so really the last step is to go in
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front grab the appliances start sliding them in and we got a finished product my initial thoughts are like wow is that really there because it wasn’t there in the morning I built all these other things to get ready for it but now that it’s there
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it’s just transformed the whole space into something that beyond what I had expected incredible man we got it all wrapped up this is mind blowing cuz there was literally nothing here this morning this morning we had a blank canvas and now we got an entire kitchen
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yeah I mean this is unbelievable let’s just take a quick walk around and take a look at what you got all right so if we think back to your original kitchen I mean we had that trash remember it was in the countertop you had to like reach
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you couldn’t even take it out like you have to like bend over and pull it like this High wasn’t even usable no yeah so simple simple little upgrade but we got a pull out trash really convenient for you to uh to be able to access the humble trash can makes a big difference
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it’s crazy it’s crazy we got the refrigerator and I remember your old refrigerator had some type of weird alarm system that was going off it was buzzing like crazy it didn’t work smelled like mold yeah so we got a beautiful 24 inch Coyote refrigerator that way you got your bar
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yeah set up you can put your refreshments in it’s going to be really convenient in this location so you can serve your guests who are going to sit on the other side we got just some simple storage an often overlooked you can never have enough storage
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you can never have enough especially because you don’t want to be outside you’re hosting all your guests you got all these cooking elements in the have no place to put any yeah I don’t want to run in I want everything here just ready to go so moving over we have some more storage that
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actually sits right below this beautiful power burner I got to be honest this power burner I’m pretty jealous because you can do so much and I know you got the teppanyaki accessory for it so you can not only do lobster boils you can cook seafood I mean you can pretty much do it all here
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but if you with the teppanyaki accessory you can fire up breakfast for the family yeah griddle pancakes eggs whatever yeah it’s going to be I’m probably to use this maybe the most out of everything I’m super excited as well it’s one of the most versatile appliances so you definitely did well
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uh we got brand new grill if we remember back to your I don’t even remember what brand it was but it didn’t work it didn’t work just a pile of rust to be honest inside so we got this 36 inch Coyote S-Series Grill and you got it all you got enough space a sear
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burner on your left hand side we got the ceramic briquettes to evenly distribute the heat we got a smoker box you got lighting features on the knobs we have the rotisserie out back and so definitely going to use this a lot
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we got some more storage access below you always want an access point so shut off your gas and I mean the star of the show look at this thing Pizza Pizza Oven we got this uh Moderno 2 pizza oven from Alfa and uh you didn’t have this in your
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old kitchen so this was this was really a completely new element that you added this is yeah it’s probably the going to steal the show the color the red it’s just an eye catcher and kids are going to love it it certainly is I mean it as soon as you walk into the backyard it just grabs your
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attention because it’s essentially like having an outdoor oven so you can cook actually much more than pizza out here so yeah and I I’m glad I sprung for the hybrid so I can use gas for convenience and wood for all that flavor the best of both worlds yeah
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next we got our sink um with 21 inch Coyote sink right here just trying to think back to the sink that you had before you mean the water fountain yeah the drinking fountain because it really didn’t work it had really low pressure yeah
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this has got a couple different features on it it’s bigger than the old sink it’s actually going to work like a sink so you can wash your uh wash your hands wash dishes out here you got the stainless steel cover we have an integrated cutting board as well you got
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your soap dispenser so it’s going to give you everything you need and anytime you have a sink you want the access just so you can access the plumbing if you ever need to service it to top it all off Kevin you got the asado smoker so you can do the low and
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slow style cooking obviously get that beautiful flavor I mean I got to tell you man with everything here you got just about everything you could even think of I know I just wanted to really go all out I I really feel like I’m going to get a lot of use out of this space so
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well an outdoor kitchen is is something that you really should only have to do once so you want to do it right yeah obviously the last homeowners that�� you acquired the outdoor kitchen from didn’t do it right so we’re hoping this
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is going to be a beautiful setup that you and your family can enjoy for years to come definitely will be super excited neighbors friends are all going to come over and we’re going to enjoy the heck out of it awesome I even caught wind that you uh you invited your parents
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over tonight to enjoy the new outdoor kitchen yeah so they’ve been inside uh they’re just excited so let’s get them out here and uh show them what we got who do we got here oh this is Max Max you’re going to be cooking out here in no time
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yeah Kevin’s going to be the talk of the neighborhood right Kevin it’s been a pleasure working together I’m super excited for you and your family um but honestly at this stage you got everything lined up ready to go to start cooking so I wanted to
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leave you guys uh to enjoying it so you guys get the party on and I’m going to head out uh can’t thank you enough RTA has been amazing I can’t believe this here it’s in one day it was from nothing to this it’s amazing can’t express uh how amazing you guys have been to work with
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well we appreciate that and uh if you guys ever need anything you know where to find us you have our contact information and we’re here for you so hey thanks again man absolutely Take Care thank you it was a pleasure meeting you guys thank you thank you
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when I look back at my old kitchen I was like oh I’m so excited this is such an upgrade from what I had now in hindsight like that thing was a piece of junk but this thing is just immaculate and amazing I’m so glad I went down the route of upgrading
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my experience of being on RTA’s Great Outdoor Kitchen Makeover has been just so fun uh from the beginning and designing to working with the crew um and just being documented and seeing my family see it all as well it’s just been a
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lot of fun to be honest you get a chance jump for it trust me do it (Singing Happy Birthday) all right you guys the calm after the storm you know how it is wow we had about over 30 people here tonight and we all had a blast we celebrated a birthday we cooked a bunch of pizzas grilled a
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lot of meat used the power burner and the kitchen was definitely the centerpiece of it all you know I have this big table back here but everyone was around the bar around the kitchen around the food so RTA I just want to thank you guys so much for making this happen uh it’s
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definitely such a worthwhile investment for me and I can’t wait to do this again
