Hi.
This is my first time here. I live in So. Or. and I just built a really swell outdoor barbeque. It’s cinderblock filled with concrete, faced with rock, and a tile counter on top of drypack – so all stone type stuff. The tile is a good glazed porcelain with natural grout. Do I have to cover it up in the winter? I’d rather look at it than at some ugly tarp – will my tiles crack from frost or freezing?
We get frost on the ground in the am’s
Usually warms up above freezing by mid morning
snows once or twice per year on the valley floor where I live.
Can i have my tile and look at it too?
thanks
2planks.
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the porcelain should hold but can check w manufacturer, some not suitable outside w/o protection good idea to seal any grout lines w quality sealer for exterior cover not a bad idea... throw a shrimp on the barby for all of us next spring
Anything that absorbs water can spall in freezing weather. Glazed tile should be OK because it's non-porous. A couple of coats of sealer on the grout will keep te water out there too.
nope, gotta be porcelain, but not all porcelain is suitable outside ceramic tile can absorb water below the install or thru grout and spall out but porcelain is a different mix with all of the air baked out of it so it won't absorb water, no spallout
Thanks!
It is glazed porcelain and the grout is sealed, so I'm gonna keep looking at it.
How bout I throw a turkey on the barby for all of us?
2planks
deep fry that turkey, dude leaves more time for the beer course