You have many options when it comes to deciding on cabinets for your outdoor kitchen. Visit any outdoor kitchen showroom and you will begin to dream about the possibilities for your own outdoor space and just how useful and beneficial they can be for your home and entertaining your guests. Purchasing an outdoor kitchen or cabinet unit is a big expense and should never be an impulse buy. Doing your homework to find out what the best solution is for you long term will help you decide on a product that you can enjoy for years.
All of our cabinets are made with High-density polyethylene or otherwise known as “HDPE”. This is a marine grade plastic that is used on boats and fancy expensive yachts simply because it will uphold to the harshest environments and never warp, fade, chip or degrade. It is the strongest material one can use for outdoor furniture and storage. The reason why it is not used more frequently is because of its expensive price tag. Costing more than 10 times as much as other “weather resistant” materials, companies avoid it because they put their profits before everything else. Its hard to sell an outdoor kitchen unit for $10,000 if the material costs alone are $8,000 and then when you add in all your labor, marketing, and overhead, there is no profit to be made. Be mindful of companies who use HDPE for their doors only, advertising their products as “HDPE” when the interior bases are made up of a treated wood material also frequently referred to as “weatherboard”.
We only use HDPE for the entire construction of every cabinet. Every cabinet you purchase from EXT Cabinets will be 100% made out of HDPE material with stainless steel hardware, offering you the absolute greatest and best built cabinet that money can buy. The best part about it is our cabinets cost less than the cheaper alternatives out there. Since we fabricate, build and sell these directly to our customers, we do not have to worry about a middleman cutting into the profits which passes that savings to our customers.
In addition to using the best materials for outdoor cabinetry and kitchens, our construction techniques separate us even further. Using lockjoint technology, something that can not be done in the indoor cabinets world, we are able to take advantage of the HDPE properties to create a male/female joint that runs along every panel of our cabinets so each part of our cabinet boxes are interlocked to each other permanently and doesn’t depend on hardware or fasteners to not fall apart as our seams are literally locked together forming a permanent, unbreakable bond.
We want to minimize how much care you will need to take of your outdoor kitchen cabinets so we have made sure that anything that can breakdown can be easily replaced. Stainless steel door knobs, handles and pulls need to be maintained to prevent rusting, but they can be easily replaced if needed. Door hinges and slide rails are made entirely of stainless steel and can also be easily replaced at very little cost and very little effort and no handyman or contractor is required.
The biggest benefit of our cabinets is that they are actually cabinets. They are as practical as any cabinet you will see in someones home and can be fully utilized for storage and organization. Be mindful of other companies offering “outdoor kitchen” solutions which is a hollow base that offers no internal storage and just a countertop with a grill and fridge.
Our cabinets are backed by a full lifetime warranty which you can read more about by visiting our warranty page.
Thank you for considering EXT Cabinets for your outdoor project, we would be happy to speak to you about any questions or concerns you may have.