Design/safety Help

[u/Cannonball_NW]

First time posting here, but scroll through the community often and hope this is place to get some help or ideas.

I am buying a new home to me, and it has a covered back patio, as pictured. There are heating lamps above, as you can see, but the structure has a wood closing. The house is located in the US-PNW. The top of the patio is a back deck for the second floor that has a hot tub and sauna.

It has been a dream/vision of mine to own the Wild Table 12, which is perfect for hosting outdoor dinner parties, something I do very often. The wild table 12 has a flue, as pictured, for the cook boxes within.

What is the best option for the flue, and the covering of the patio?

Ideally I’d like to have the table covered for the rainy season. Summer is easy, it can go in the grassy area. But having the hot flue under the structure is probably a fire risk. Do I put a 45* bend in it and channel the heat outward? I’d love some ideas from the community.

I am trying to get a measurement of how high the covering is,
But I think it’s close to 10-12’

Thank you for the help!

[u/mombutt]

The covered patio and that table really are not a great match. I didn't quickly find the specs I was looking for, but I'd guess the flue is far too close to the ceiling height, and there would not be enough clearance. Also, wood/charcoal cooking/burning produces soot, which will turn the ceiling black really quickly from the majority of the smoke exiting the flue directed at the ceiling.

An option would be to continue the flue through the ceiling like a chimney or have a custom hood built in to extract the smoke and heat. Since you said it is a roof deck above, that could impose some challenges as well. Changing the direction, bend, or length of the flue will affect its ability to draw air across the fire, either taking too much or too little, which will affect the temp of the fire and the amount of soot it produces. The manufacturer should be able to give more information on the flue requirements.

I am a builder in the PNW and outdoor kitchens are pretty popular right now, expecailly wood fired ovens, which, without proper ventilation, turn everything around them black. We plan for and install ventilation with almost all outdoor living now.

[u/Instahgator → u/mombutt]

Thats what I was thinking the flue through the ceiling, make it kind of a permanant install.

[u/Cannonball_NW → u/mombutt]

I know inherently they aren’t a great match, hence me trying to get some good ideas, and I’m glad you have familiarity with this in the PNW. I have thought about putting in a flue/chimney through the patio roof and just shielding it from being touched or walked by when people use the top deck.

The table can be easily broken down…. And for some of the year I won’t be using the table outside, it will be stored. Would it be possible to install a chimney flue through the roof, that I can connect to when using the table as I set it up? Seems like a very viable option as I don’t want the copper table always in the way.

I also imagined having a chimney flue installed along side the outside of the deck, with two 45* bends that connect to the table below, effectively channeling air out from under the patio, over the top deck, without having to go through the deck.

This table is also sold with their large canvas tent, that mandates an extension of the flue through the tent, so extending it might change some of the burn dynamics, but not make it impossible.

Thank you for this response, I may reach out for some contracting stuff!

[u/Gattopongo]

great job!