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Add Reinforcements to Frame

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I Built a Luxury $20,000 Outdoor Kitchen

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What happens here

The presenter returns the next day to continue work. He notes the importance of the frame being square and level, measuring diagonals to confirm squareness. He also considers adding more vertical studs for reinforcement due to the anticipated weight of granite countertops, even though standard metal studs are typically placed at 16 inches on center. He also removes existing support brackets that were holding the grill in place.

Goal: Ensure the frame is square, level, and adequately reinforced.

Tools and materials

  • Cordless Drill Ryobi — For driving screws, Level Stanley
  • Self-Tapping Screws — To join metal studs

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fiber board and stone around it, it should be plenty of strength. Man, it's so exciting when everything comes to plan. We got the first frame done. It looks great. The most important part is square. And the way you want to do it is measure from corner to corner, 65 and 1/2 to 65, hopefully 1/2, 65 and 5/8. So, we're just off by an eighth. And then I got everything squared, everything leveled. I think I got enough studs going vertically. This one is not on yet just because I have storage stuff that's going to go in, which once we build everything out, I will show you and then we'll install them. And I think I need to create maybe a couple of braces here cuz by the time the quartz or granite goes on top, I'm afraid these will start pulling out. I don't know. That's just what I'm thinking. [music] But we're going to create the same exact damn thing over here, and then future Alex, which means few hours from today, is going to have to figure out how to work around this post to create more space here. Man, future Alex or tomorrow Alex has a lot on his hands.

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