Outdoor Kitchens
We build the whole outdoor kitchen as a masonry structure: block walls faced in real clay brick or natural stone. Every opening is built to the specs of the grill and appliances you pick.
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Orlando's older neighborhoods are known for lakes and old brick streets. Maybe your home backs onto Lake Cherokee or Lake Underhill, and you want an outdoor kitchen on the lanai. Maybe it is in Lake Eola Heights, where new brick has to suit houses from the early 1900s. As a masonry company working in Orlando, we build that work in real clay brick and natural stone.
We are based in St. Cloud, and much of our work is in Orlando, Winter Park and Windermere. We build custom outdoor kitchens and fireplaces as full masonry, and we lay brick and natural stone on homes. We come up from St. Cloud on Narcoossee Road and SR 417, or on Florida's Turnpike for downtown. Call (407) 702-4316, and we will look at the space and give you a quote.
Tell us what you want built and where the job is. We look at the space and give you a quote.
Downtown Orlando's brick goes back to an 1884 fire that burned many wood buildings. The city then banned new frame buildings downtown, which is why so much of it is brick today. The city's growth plan still describes its neighborhoods by their old brick streets. In the 1920s, the plan notes, even Orange Avenue was paved in brick.
The city has six historic districts: Downtown, Lake Cherokee, Lake Copeland, Lake Eola Heights, Lake Lawsona and Colonialtown South. With almost 50 landmarks, they account for about 1,800 properties, under 5 percent of the city's total. Lake Eola Heights alone has about 570 buildings, and its biggest building boom ran from 1905 to 1925.
In a district, exterior work needs the city's historic preservation approval before a building permit is issued. That covers new brick arches and columns, and it covers new paving too. We build the brick to the plan the city approves.
The city counts about 120 lakes partly or wholly inside its limits. Freezes are rare: Orlando's airport station averages fewer than two days a year at 32 degrees or colder. So a lanai or a lakeside patio can be used for cooking most of the year. Florida even has its own name for an outdoor kitchen: the summer kitchen.
Each outdoor kitchen we build is concrete block walls on a concrete slab, faced with clay brick or natural stone. That is a full masonry structure instead of a metal or wood frame with a veneer skin. The Florida Building Code rates termite infestation in the state as very heavy. Block, brick and stone do not feed termites, and they do not rust or rot.
A licensed plumber or gas contractor and a licensed electrician run the lines to the kitchen. We build the openings to the sizes of the grill and doors you pick. Add a masonry outdoor fireplace, and the kitchen and fireplace can go up as one project.
Orlando's homes span every era: Census estimates put about 13 percent before 1960 and 20 percent in 2010 or later. The Lake Lawsona district is known for its Craftsman bungalows. Lake Nona, on the southeast side, is inside the city limits and still growing. When a builder puts up a new custom home, we work alongside on the brick veneer and a masonry fireplace.
Orlando averages about 51 inches of rain a year, more than half of it from June through September. Soil survey maps put about a third of the city on Smyrna fine sand, a poorly drained soil. Its water table sits within 18 inches of the surface for 1 to 4 months in most years. In rainy seasons, it can rise above the surface briefly.
On that ground, we pour the slab first and give it slope before any block goes up. The Florida Building Code puts exterior footings at least 12 inches below finished grade. A masonry fireplace footing must be at least 12 inches thick, too. The code also wants paving within 10 feet of the house sloped at least 2 percent away.
Inside the city limits, permits come from the City of Orlando's Permitting Services Division. A new driveway or pavers take an engineering permit there. New concrete or pavers also count toward the lot's impervious surface, which the city tracks on a worksheet.
A 2026 state law lets some small jobs on a single-family home skip the building permit. Structural, gas, electrical and plumbing work do not qualify, and Orlando wants an exemption request filed first.
Planned neighborhoods can add a second review. In Baldwin Park, the Architectural Review Committee applies design guidelines that say chimneys and fireplace flue enclosures must be non-combustible. For a mud-set brick driveway there, the first 7 feet from the alley pavement must be solid concrete. Check with your HOA and the city before the work starts.
Communities and areas we serve around Orlando: Lake Eola Heights, Thornton Park, Lake Cherokee, College Park, Audubon Park, Colonialtown, Baldwin Park, Dover Shores, Lake Nona, MetroWest, Dr. Phillips, Bay Hill.
Orlando ZIP codes served: 32801, 32803, 32804, 32805, 32806, 32807, 32808, 32811, 32812, 32814, 32819, 32822, 32824, 32827, 32829, 32832, 32835, 32839.
We come over from St. Cloud, look at the space and give you a quote.
(407) 702-4316 We build the whole outdoor kitchen as a masonry structure: block walls faced in real clay brick or natural stone. Every opening is built to the specs of the grill and appliances you pick.
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Custom outdoor fireplaces built on site, with a firebrick firebox and a face of real clay brick or natural stone. They stand on an open patio or sit under a lanai or pavilion roof.
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Custom brick and stone fireplaces built on site inside the home, with a firebrick firebox and a masonry chimney. Most go into a new custom home or an addition, alongside the builder.
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Custom brickwork in real clay brick: arches, arched entries, columns and brick walls for outdoor living. We cut every arch piece on site.
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Real clay brick veneer over block or frame walls, on new custom homes or the front of an existing house. We also lay interior brick walls and finish brick with a light whitewash.
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Natural stone veneer for house walls and stone columns, plus stone faces for fireplaces and outdoor kitchens. Our masons cut and dress the stone on site to fit.
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Our brick pavers are real clay brick, set in a mortar bed on a concrete slab we pour first. We use them for patios, walkways, pool decks and driveways across Greater Orlando.
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Broom-finish concrete driveways, patios, walkways and slabs across Greater Orlando. We also pour the slab under mud-set brick and outdoor kitchens.
Learn MoreA few of the questions we hear most around Orlando. If yours is not here, call and ask.
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Tell us what you want built and where the job is. We look at the space and give you a quote.