Hello
so, in March 2021, one of my then 5 cats died. Just woke up to find him dead on my seat in the litter room.
I love cooking spit roasts on my bbq, but didn’t have the room to prepare, cook and let rest, so I decided to build a kitchen bbq area, where I could store the gas bottles. And my cooking equipment. It took me almost all of 2021 to build it, but I am disabled, so could only do a little work here and there when pain was better, I managed to get a hour or so done, before had to packup.
late October 2021, I again lost another cat, he became unwell, and was expected, but it stopped me from getting in the right frame of mind to finish the build (just needed to “glue” the countertop (they are floor tiles) but I used the bbq nearly daily and spit roasted food at least twice per week.
so in 2022, I decided to redo my bedroom, from doing some sort of plywood floor using it as planks of 5inch widths, but needed a couple of tools to do this. So in 2022 I saved and brought tools, anyway, I may of brought too many and now needing a small workstation shed. Anyway, in December of 2022 about 14 months since I last used the bbq, I thought that the bbq was now closer to the shed. Using my temperature gun, I found The wood shed got about 20°c hotter than before, spoke to an “expert“ how said to add a sheet of metal that he provided, I then install, but we then have a cold week, and I go to cook, and the glass above on the shed (shed window) cracked, before installing the metal sheet, the glass never got hot.
anyway, I go to cook again about 2 months later, I released that Behind my bbq was now catching on fire, this was sorted with seconds and no damage done to the shed, but found a big problem, to support the bbq, it was mounted onto a fire resistant beam, at least what was told… to keep everything level. I am not sure how, but my bbq has not only dropped, but has also fallen back towards the shed, so now the grease from cooking my spit roast had run off into the support beam and it trapped the heat and the grease caught on fire.
I am not sure if the screws failed, the bbq legs that was attached to the beam have rusted away, or something else. I can’t see that well behind the bbq, but it has dropped by some 2-3 inches at a minimum, however the other structure work hasn’t moved, so, how would I fix all of this? The metal sheet has almost completely rusted but I don’t think all of it has, just the surface.
should I undo and resit the bbq, or rebuild all of this, or use some sort of jack to lift up the bbq then re secure the bbq?
so, in March 2021, one of my then 5 cats died. Just woke up to find him dead on my seat in the litter room.
I love cooking spit roasts on my bbq, but didn’t have the room to prepare, cook and let rest, so I decided to build a kitchen bbq area, where I could store the gas bottles. And my cooking equipment. It took me almost all of 2021 to build it, but I am disabled, so could only do a little work here and there when pain was better, I managed to get a hour or so done, before had to packup.
late October 2021, I again lost another cat, he became unwell, and was expected, but it stopped me from getting in the right frame of mind to finish the build (just needed to “glue” the countertop (they are floor tiles) but I used the bbq nearly daily and spit roasted food at least twice per week.
so in 2022, I decided to redo my bedroom, from doing some sort of plywood floor using it as planks of 5inch widths, but needed a couple of tools to do this. So in 2022 I saved and brought tools, anyway, I may of brought too many and now needing a small workstation shed. Anyway, in December of 2022 about 14 months since I last used the bbq, I thought that the bbq was now closer to the shed. Using my temperature gun, I found The wood shed got about 20°c hotter than before, spoke to an “expert“ how said to add a sheet of metal that he provided, I then install, but we then have a cold week, and I go to cook, and the glass above on the shed (shed window) cracked, before installing the metal sheet, the glass never got hot.
anyway, I go to cook again about 2 months later, I released that Behind my bbq was now catching on fire, this was sorted with seconds and no damage done to the shed, but found a big problem, to support the bbq, it was mounted onto a fire resistant beam, at least what was told… to keep everything level. I am not sure how, but my bbq has not only dropped, but has also fallen back towards the shed, so now the grease from cooking my spit roast had run off into the support beam and it trapped the heat and the grease caught on fire.
I am not sure if the screws failed, the bbq legs that was attached to the beam have rusted away, or something else. I can’t see that well behind the bbq, but it has dropped by some 2-3 inches at a minimum, however the other structure work hasn’t moved, so, how would I fix all of this? The metal sheet has almost completely rusted but I don’t think all of it has, just the surface.
should I undo and resit the bbq, or rebuild all of this, or use some sort of jack to lift up the bbq then re secure the bbq?
