Doncaster & South Yorkshire
Outdoor kitchens · Doncaster & South Yorkshire
A permanent, built-in cooking and entertaining space founded on proper concrete and built in brick and block, with power, water and drainage designed in before a single slab goes down, and a 2-year workmanship guarantee behind it.
20 years' experience · fully insured · every project backed by a 2-year workmanship guarantee
20 years
Trading experience
Team of 11
Directly employed
£2m / £10m
Public & employers' liability
2-year guarantee
10-year warranty on request
CSCS · NVQ 6
SSSTS & NHBC Masterclass
Overview
Flat-pack outdoor kitchens are furniture. They sit on paving that was never designed to carry them, swell and delaminate in the wet, and look tired after two seasons. Surefoot builds outdoor kitchens as masonry structures, the same way we build a wall: a founded base, a block carcass, a faced finish and services run in conduit before the surfacing is laid.
Base and foundation, block and brick carcassing, apertures for grills, hobs, pizza ovens, fridges and storage, worktop bedding and fixing, chimney and flue support where required, conduit for power and lighting, water supply and waste, and the surrounding paving, walling and seating that make the space usable.
Households who already cook and entertain outdoors and are tired of dragging a barbecue out of a shed, and homeowners planning a landscaping scheme who want the kitchen built into it rather than parked on top of it.
As part of a garden transformation, alongside a new patio while the ground is already open, or when an existing outdoor cooking area has no shelter, no worktop, no power and nowhere to put anything down.
An outdoor kitchen combines masonry, heat, electricity and water in a space that freezes in winter. Foundations, fire separation around appliances, weathering of worktops and correctly installed, protected services are what separate a structure that lasts from one that becomes an expensive garden ornament.
What it costs to get wrong
Outdoor kitchens fail in predictable ways, and almost all of them trace back to what was underneath and what was left out.
A masonry kitchen is heavy. Set it on a patio bed rather than a founded base and it settles unevenly, cracking the carcass and the worktop joints within a couple of years.
Timber or unprotected board carcassing, unsealed worktop edges and no fall on the surfaces means water sits, penetrates and then freezes. The structure delaminates from the inside.
Retro-fitting power or water after the paving is down means lifting it, chasing it, and never quite hiding the route. Extension leads trailed across a wet garden are the alternative, and they are dangerous.
No fire separation around grills and pizza ovens, appliances specified after the apertures are built, no drainage from the sink area, and worktops fixed with no allowance for thermal movement.
Our process
We start with what you will actually cook on and what has to fit, grill, hob, pizza oven, fridge, sink, storage, because every aperture is built to real appliance dimensions.
Levels, base position, sunlight and wind direction, plus routes for power, water and waste, all assessed before the design is fixed.
Priced on the actual structure, worktop material and services required, with the scope written down clearly.
Concrete base, block carcass with correct openings and fire separation, faced in brick or stone, conduit and pipework installed and protected, worktops bedded and sealed, then the surrounding paving completed.
We walk the finished kitchen with you, check apertures, falls and finishes together, and back the work with a 2-year workmanship guarantee, with a 10-year warranty available on request.
What you get
A concrete base sized for the structure, so nothing settles, cracks or twists under the weight of masonry and stone worktops.
Masonry carcassing, sealed worktops and falls that shed water, rather than board and timber that swells.
Power, lighting, water and waste run in conduit before surfacing, so nothing is trailed across the garden.
Apertures set out to the actual units you are buying, so the fit is clean and serviceable.
Faced in brick or stone chosen against your property, by bricklayers who lay it every day.
2-year workmanship guarantee, 10-year warranty available on request, £2m public liability and £10m employers' liability.
In detail
Outdoor kitchens are built from a small number of decisions that have a large effect on cost and longevity.
Reinforced concrete base, dense concrete block carcassing, facing brick, natural stone or rendered finishes, and stainless fixings throughout. Non-combustible construction around heat sources as a matter of course.
Granite, porcelain and engineered stone suited to outdoor exposure, bedded on a level, supported deck with sealed joints, drip edges and falls so water runs off rather than sitting in a seam.
Built-in gas and charcoal grills, side burners, pizza ovens, ceramic egg-style cookers, under-counter fridges, sinks and storage drawers, each with the aperture, ventilation and clearance the manufacturer requires.
Armoured cable routes and socket positions for a qualified electrician to terminate, water supply and waste runs to a drainage point, and lighting conduit for task and ambient lighting. Notifiable electrical and gas work is completed by appropriately qualified trades.
Straight runs against a wall, L-shaped and U-shaped configurations, island units with a bar overhang and seating, and combined schemes with a firepit, pergola base or seating wall alongside.
Domestic kitchens are sized around family cooking and entertaining. Pub, hotel and hospitality installations need heavier duty appliances, more robust worktops, greater clearance and a construction that stands up to daily commercial use: a different specification of the same masonry approach.
£2,000,000 public liability and £10,000,000 employers' liability cover, with a 2-year workmanship guarantee on every project and a 10-year warranty available on request.
Questions
Anything not covered here, call Michael on +44 7856 247499 and ask.
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Tell us how you cook outdoors and send a photograph of the space. We will visit, plan the base and the services, and price it in writing.
Fully insured · CSCS, SSSTS, NVQ Level 6 & NHBC Masterclass · 2-year workmanship guarantee
