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very pleased with all of it and uh again I’m in manufacturing so the the details of how some of the stuff is manufactured I’m fairly you know knowledgeable about and so yes I’m real pleased with all of you know the hardware they use pretty
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much all the details of the kitchen I’m very pleased with the quality of it started online with the design tool and uh was looking for a certain amount of
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things kind of had the the idea to put in the pergola and kind of wanted to fit everything within the pergola and to fit in the appliances and the number of appliances I had. I kind of needed to do a little extra length. So, I went L rather than a straight line to get a
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little bit of extra countertop and and appliance space. The grill was pretty much the starting point of designing the kitchen. I wanted a a a full size larger grill to be able to do quite a bit of, you know, food at one time. So, that’s
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where we started. And then, like I said, some of the other appliances sort of came secondary to the grill. The griddle top was kind of the second thing that we wanted. My wife wanted in particular to have that flat top cooking
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grill in addition to the barbecue. She doesn’t use the barbecue very often, but she was more comfortable to have the griddle top and kind of be able to just go out and throw stuff right on the griddle without having to fire up the barbecue and stuff. A lot of other projects that I’ve done, you get some
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instructions that are, you know, so and uh you’re kind of figuring it out on your own and you kind of have to use your own common sense to try to figure out the way it’s supposed to go together, you know, and the the
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instructions don’t always work. But with RTA, like I said, their meticulous attention to detail made it all very, very smooth and and much better than just about any home project I’ve done. It was sort of the centerpiece of the
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whole backyard really. And we kind of started with the outdoor kitchen and then sort of built everything else around it. And even when you walk in the door, we have a long hallway. And so you kind of walk in and it’s kind of the first thing you see in the backyard. and
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it’s kind of centered to the outdoor area. When I was doing the research, I looked at a bunch of different variations of what I might want to do, including another solid built-in one, but I think the price is well worth it in the end. Um, just because, like I
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said, the added space, the durability of it, the washability of it, I’m I’m real pleased with the way everything worked out. It all pretty much started with the design tool and and uh I started you
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know with my own design and did quite a bit of my own design and then I played around quite a bit myself before I you know started working with the designer. Having the designer saying this fits here that doesn’t fit here let’s change
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this let’s move that. Having the designer was very very helpful in getting it done. So basically the process kind of started with the designer, then he passed it off to the blueprint person, and then they actually pass it off to the finance
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person who works with you to get the financing thing handled. And then it gets handed off finally to the project um coordinator, I guess. Forget exactly what his title is, but that was Peter Kurs. and he was really instrumental in
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the orders already in and fabricating. And then he kept me up to date on where we were on delivery. And then I got photos of all of the crates, how it was created, when it was going to ship, and then once it was here, um, Peter was
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super helpful in in all of the instructions. Again, their customer service really from start to finish was highly impressive to me, but especially Peter um was very helpful and I I was
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highly impressed with all of the customer service.
