Hey Gurnee: My wife and I are right now in TV and our design meeting begins tomorrow at 9:00 a. The issue you raise is one of the issues we are wrestling with. After speaking to many people and looking at many existing set-ups of birdcages, I am still undecided. It seems that many people with a birdcage have opted to just use a propane gas grill in the birdcage (but not in the lanai .... that's a real bad no no). But, many people also have summer kitchens ... in their lanai adjacent to the birdcage, but the cost for a properly installed one is mucho dinero. Certainly, the fan hood portion of the summer kitchen does seem to be an important issue ..... but those people with a summer kitchen have it in the covered roof portion of the lanai, adjacent to the birdcage. Sooooo ... can we just put the propane grill in the birdcage, and hope that the screening of the birdcage allows the soot, grease, smell (and sometimes smoke when our grilling doesn't always work out that well) escape the screened enclosure without negatively affecting our investment in the birdcage?????? That's the big question. Well, I've seen that lots of people do it ..... and right now for me it will come down to cost. I hope I can afford a properly installed summer kitchen ...... but with the huge cost of the grills they are including in the summer kitchen set-up, I'm going to make dam sure that the stainless steel of every inch of the grill is high grade stainless steel. If a magnet adheres to it, then the stainless steel is second rate and we're getting ripped off in buying the grill for the summer kitchen from TV. In which case, I think I will try to get the summer kitchen, but try to get an after-market grill under the hood TV will build....but don't know if they will let me do that. BTW, there's no gas hookup south of 466a, and a summer kitchen build hookup involves TV sinking a large propane tank in your ground .... so there are complications with aftermarket additions. All in all, I probably will bite the bullet and go with TV to do it right ..... but I hope the quality is worth it.
Swampy gonna be on Partridge Ave in Fernandina 206
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