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Setting an Outdoor Kitchen Refrigerator and Kegerator Pad in Pinellas

paverforge
Sep 19
1 min read

An outdoor refrigerator or kegerator looks like it can sit on the same paver field as the grill island. It cannot. The cabinet is a point load, it vibrates, and the drip tray overflows into joints. PaverForge Hardscapes sets a dedicated pad under the box so the island field can move a little without racking the door.

Level, drip, and service pull

We compact a separate base, set the pad dead level for the compressor, and pitch a small drip channel to the island floor drain or a trapped receptor. Leave a pull space so the unit comes out without lifting the counter. Gas and electric stub-ups stay in sleeves, not saw-cut after the fact.

Heat and salt air

West-facing islands cook the side of a cheap outdoor box. We keep the pad off the grill heat setback, use color-through units that hide drip stains, and keep polymeric out of the drip path. If the island is inside a screen cage, the pad still isolates from the cage footer.

PaverForge Hardscapes builds outdoor kitchen pads from St. Pete Beach across Pinellas. 727-490-9798.

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