Site prep, in an afternoon.
What the ground needs to look like on delivery day, and why the crane matters more than the truck.
A pod arrives fully assembled on a single pallet.
That fact does most of the work of an install. But it also sets three constraints that you will want to plan for before the truck turns up.
First, the ground. The pod sits on a flat, solid surface — a ten-centimetre concrete pad is what we specify, though a treated timber platform of equivalent stiffness is fine. Never directly on soil. The A-Ultra is seven hundred and fifty kilograms delivered; you cannot uncouple that from the reality of a foundation.
Second, the air. Fifteen centimetres of ventilation clearance on every side. Fifty centimetres above, from any flammable structure. The hood and the grill are appliances and they behave like appliances.
Third, the crane. A forty-foot flatbed brings the pod to the kerb. A mini-crane lifts it over the boundary wall, or a forklift walks it up the drive. Ninety percent of installation problems we've seen were access problems — a gate too narrow, a garden gate that hadn't been measured, a paving slab the forklift couldn't cross.
Utilities are simple. A single power outlet within reach of the utility bay. A cold-water feed and a drain. That is the entire scope of the plumber's involvement.
By the end of the afternoon the gate is cycling, the fridge is cold, and the grill is at temperature. The photographs on the Gallery page were mostly taken the next morning while the light was on the panels.