Normally, when building an outdoor kitchen, we would pour concrete and let it cure before building our base. In this particular situation, we were dealing with tight spaces for a ready-mix truck to come in and we didn't want to wait for the concrete to cure so we thought about another way to get the base ready for construction of our outdoor kitchen.
First step as usual, is to classify, amend and compact. We did that using lime, Type S mortar mix as well as 3/4" clean stone to increase the bearing ability of our clay soil. We compacted that soil with the Bartell BT1000 Jumping Jack which is great for trench application such as this one.
Step 2 was to build up the kitchen base. To do that, we laid out a layer of GF5 fabric to encapsulate our base and added 3" of clean stone (#57). Then, we added a layer of 30-30 Biaxial geogrid and then another 3" of clean stone and another layer of geogrid and another 3" of clean stone for a total of 9" as our base for the kitchen. This method made the base super rigid to build our kitchen island. Also no need to wait for cure time either, so we got started right away laying down our Raffinato blocks. We used the Raffinato 180 in Greyed Nickel for this kitchen island.
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