Outdoor Kitchen Design Guide for St. Louis Homeowners
An outdoor kitchen is a built cooking area wired and plumbed into a home’s gas, power, and water lines, which puts it under local permits and inspections. Treating it as a furniture purchase gets the whole project backwards. The grill and cabinets are only the visible...
Hardscape Permit Requirements by St. Louis Municipality
Whether a hardscape project needs a permit in the Greater St. Louis metro depends on which municipality the parcel sits in. Retaining walls show it most clearly: the permit trigger runs from 18 inches in the City of St. Louis to 6 feet in unincorporated Jefferson...
Missouri Soil Classification by County for Hardscape
Missouri soil classification is the system for identifying a soil by its measurable properties and sorting it into groups that predict how it will bear load, move water, and shift with frost. It works through two frames at once. The USDA soil survey names a soil...
