Summer kitchen in the country with their own hands

01-02-2018

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In the open air, not only is the appetite stronger, but the food is absorbed much better. In warm weather, do not want to sit in the room. Conservation for the winter is also easier to do outside. In the article we will tell you how to build a summer kitchen in the country with your own hands, we will show diagrams, drawings, photos and video instructions.

Choose a type

All types of summer kitchens can be attributed to two categories:

open;
closed

Closed kitchens resemble a small building, similar to a house, which often has no special insulation. The advantage of this solution will be protection from insects, the best protection from the weather, as well as from the wind. A variant of an open kitchen can be protected from one or several sides with a fabric, wooden or other wall. The advantage of this solution will be greater unity with nature. Among the open types of buildings there are options:

With a barbecue. In this case, you have the advantage to cook your favorite dish on an open fire. Kebab will be available in any weather. If you additionally mount the oven, then you can please your friends with a pizza.
With pergola or pergola. Nice to sit among the green. This is exactly the solution in which the entire structure will eventually be enveloped in grapes, ivy, or another climbing plant.
Canopy adjacent to the house. The easiest way to build. Requires the least investment. But there is a negative point. When cooking, all fumes and smoke will go toward the house. This can lead to damage to walls or other finishing materials.

Stages of preparation

Once you have chosen one of the possible options, it's time to create a small project.

Choose a location. Well, when you have the opportunity to place the kitchen in a cozy garden, where there is a pleasant atmosphere of calm. At this stage it is necessary to take into account the proximity of the location of various communications. They will definitely be needed. Electrical devices will require wiring. When cooking, you can not do without water and after it you need to go somewhere. Do not place the building close to roads and roads. Then your meal will not be spoiled by unpleasant smells. If there is a toilet outside, then it is better to leave it as far as possible.
We stop at the material for construction. If you plan a closed kitchen, then you can approach it as a frame building, in which case you will need wood. A good option would be a building of foam blocks or brick. Open, most likely, will be from wood or one or two of its walls will be from a material which was listed earlier.
Determine the roof. On an open structure, a soft tile will look great, but this is a rather costly solution, although it cannot be ruled out, because the roof area will be small. The metal tile or a professional flooring will be good option. Perhaps, waiting for their turn, you have sheets of slate or ondulin - they also fit.
The project is also worth considering what equipment you plan to buy for the summer kitchen.

Foundation

Summer kitchen is usually thought of as a lightweight construction. This means that the foundation can immediately protrude and the floor, and, perhaps, pouring is not required at all.

First you need to clean the selected area of all debris and vegetation.
Removed a small layer of top ground.
One of the corners of the future construction is indicated by a wooden peg or metal rod. Further three more elements are established. To properly position them, it is necessary to measure the diagonal on the identity. Between them the fishing line or strong twine is pulled, which will serve as a guide.

If the building consists of a shed, then after these steps you can proceed as follows:

At a depth of 30 cm, the entire perimeter of the marked area is excavated.
The bottom is leveled and compacted.
Inside the sand is filled with a layer of 10? 15 cm. It is also leveled and well rammed.
The remaining space is filled with screenings and the final alignment is performed.
Next to our "cake", which was prepared, fit pavement or other tiles, which is designed for the street. This can be done on a dry cement mortar, which, after spilling with water, will well fix the entire base.
Pits are dug at the four corners, their depth should be at least 50 cm. Formwork is installed inside. The recess is made of reinforcement, which will be the basis of the reinforced concrete structure. It is placed inside and filled with solution. By means of the vibrator all mix is rammed. While the concrete has not yet stiffened, two metal plates are inserted in the middle, to which we will be able to fix the wooden pillars, which will support the walls and the roof.

Such a variant of the base will be relevant in the case when the ground is sufficiently dense. In cases where groundwater may be very close to the surface or displacements of the upper layer are noticed, it is necessary to provide a more solid base. Also, if you plan to finish building a stove or a barbecue on such a foundation, then you will need to lay separate concrete supports for them.

In order to make the foundation slab, we need to take the first three steps from the previous instruction. Next, take the following:

Prepare 8 pieces of rebar. Four of them should be 10 cm shorter than one of the sides of the future structure, 4 others 10 cm shorter than the other. If the building is square, they will all be the same size.
We put four of them in the shape of our future structure and fasten together. Then every 40 cm we attach the longitudinal and transverse bridges. In the same way we prepare the second grid. We connect two grids with bridges to such a height that the future plate would rise at least 5 cm above the surface.
We lower the entire structure into the middle of the dug pit, install the formwork and fill it with concrete. Drumming with a vibrator. We align with slats and let stand for several weeks.
In fresh concrete around the perimeter in increments of a meter, you can put metal plates the width of the future timber for walls. Or it can be done only in the corners.

It is very important that the floor be above the surface of the earth. Thanks to it, rain water will not flow. It is also good to make a small slope of the floor so that the precipitations brought by the wind can flow freely into the drainage or simply through the door.

In the case when it is planned to build a closed kitchen of brick or foam block, this variant of the foundation may be enough. Also for these needs it is possible to build a ribbon shallow or columnar foundation. In this case, such a large-scale excavation is not performed.

At a depth of 50 cm, a trench is being dug around the perimeter of the future kitchen. Width will depend on wall thickness. In any case, the foundation should be 10? 15 cm wider.
At the bottom of a layer of sand is poured, which is aligned and shed water.
The metal base-lattice is made according to the principle as in the previous instruction. She fits into a trench.
The formwork is installed with the expectation that the future foundation would rise 20–30 cm above the ground.
Fill the cement mortar, ram and level it. Give up to 2? 3 weeks.

The supply of all communications must be carried out in parallel with the laying of the foundation, so that later you don’t have to hammer holes in it or dig under it. To prevent the pipes from being clogged with solution, they must be closed in advance with a cloth and polyethylene oilcloth.

Open kitchen

This option can be built most quickly. We have already laid the foundation and mount for the supports. If you are planning to close the kitchen from one or both sides with brick walls or other material, then the first thing to do is to start building these partitions.

At the corners of the future walls, we dig into the ground a metal square pipe or a profile measuring 50 × 50 mm. Expose it by level. We make it so that the planks are close to the laying. They will guide us.
Between them we stretch the line. Raise it to the height of the first row of bricks, which will be laid. Expose it by level.
Prepare cement-sand mortar in the ratio of 1: 3. That will be enough for our purposes.
We make masonry, focusing on the stretched fishing line, and also periodically recheck ourselves level.
As soon as the first row is finished, we raise the line for the next and so on until the very end.
In order to make the construction more stable, a reinforcing mesh can be laid in the seams.

If you do not plan on having walls of this nature, then the process will be much easier.

To the metal plates that we laid during the manufacture of the foundation, fasten the timber, which will serve as a support. When the whole structure will be of great length, then it is necessary to foresee the necessity of mounting 3–4 pillars on one side. Their length should be equal to the height of our building, and the dimensions of the sides should be 15 × 15 cm or 15 × 10 cm.
We put them on the level so that they are strictly vertical. The bars of one wall should be longer so that we can organize the slope of the roof.
Immediately we strengthen our posts with the help of top strapping. It can be made from the same logs. Fixation produced by metal corners.
To give greater stability to the whole structure, you can install two stubs near each column. They can be fixed to the support with self-tapping screws, and to the base with an anchor bolt.
We install beams for our future roof. In order to keep them better in the places of their junction with the strapping, it is better to perform sawing. Fix with metal corners.
Making a crate under the flooring, as recommended by the manufacturer. We lay the roofing material.
To create more comfort, one side (or more) can be sewn with wooden lining or a block of house. On the other - to make a wooden lattice. You can equip supports for climbing green plants.

In the case when the construction of the pergola is planned, after laying the ceiling beams nothing more needs to be done. They can be covered with stain or varnish. Then the plants themselves will do their work, creating a shadow when fully grow.

Closed kitchen

At the design stage, it was possible that it was decided to erect walls made of foam block or brick, then this can be done according to the principle with the installation of vertical landmarks, which was mentioned above. The thickness of the walls may not be too big. In some cases laying in a half brick is allowed. But always consider the weight of the future roof. In the future, outside the building can be sheathed siding or block house. A block house, lining or other material that will be resistant to frost is also suitable for interior decoration, because in winter it is unlikely that someone will heat the room on purpose in the winter.

The wall is laid timber, which will act as a mauerlat. Its size can be 10 × 15 cm. It is fixed with the help of anchor bolts or studs that need to be bricked along the walls. Under it, you must put waterproofing in the form of roofing material or bikrost. A truss system is installed on the logs. It can be both for a gable and for a single-pitch roof (for this option it will be enough to make one wall higher than the other, then beams are simply installed between them). The crate is mounted on the beams and the roof covering is laid. The ceiling is hemmed from the inside.

You can go easier and stay on the frame version. For him, we will need bars of the same size as for the vertical bars from the instruction on the open kitchen. Of these, we make the foundation. We lay them around the perimeter of our foundation on two layers of roofing material or bikrost, which will serve as waterproofing. We make a ligation between them. To do this, on the edge of each log there is a depression half the depth and width equal to the width of the log. Check the diagonals. Fix them together with screws and internal metal corners. Next, fasten to the prepared plates or anchors to the foundation.

We mount angular basic columns from the same bar. With a step of 60 cm, we install additional vertical supports from a board of 10 × 5 cm in size. For greater rigidity, fasten the braces for each main support. We carry out the top trim and install a truss system for the future roof. We do this by analogy with the option of an open kitchen.

Finish line

Even if our kitchen is planned to have a barbecue or stove, this does not exclude the presence of a gas or electric stove, which is much more convenient to use. It is necessary to take care of the installation of the sink, the mixer, as well as the stand for dishes, on which it will dry. Well, if there is a locker in which you can hide the cutlery, as well as pots. You need to take care of the dining table, as well as comfortable furniture, where you can relax. For more comfort it is better to hold the main and decorative lights.

For an open kitchen project, it is best to ensure that all the lighting devices are preferably IP68 protected. In this case, you do not have to worry about any elements being damaged by rainwater.

Do not approach to the project of summer kitchen ordinary. Let it in a sense be a design decision. After all, it will serve not only as a place for eating, but also as a recreation area with family and friends.

A photo

Schemes and drawings

If you decide to make a summer kitchen in the country yourself, then perhaps you will need the drawings and diagrams of this structure: