New Window May 22nd

Took longer to figure out the trimming of window then the placement. We will do all three windows as they are set a s a group. But for our purposes, the window is in!!!


Helpers on the new window project. We camped out again the night before. Bathroom capabilities are now job ONE!!!!!

More floor..... May15

Emily and I laid 6 sheets of OSB flooring on Saturday. Whew!
We have 5 more to go and all the floor will be covered.

We helped her Unle Tom work on his remote cabin-deerblind as well.

I think there are some windows in my future....

May 2nd work update

Well we got all the floor tore up!!!! What a pain, too bad the floor was so messed up, nice hard wood floor at one time.

No pics too tired.

Kids had two good naps at the cabin, I took Saturday and napped and cooked dinner. Not much work got done, just being with kids.

East wall insulated April 10 2010

Worked on the east wall this weekend. Cut 6 sheets of 2 inch foam board to fill the holes in the wall cavity. We will spray foam the cracks and then overspray a 1 inch foam coating to finish filling the wall. Should be R-17 ish when we are done. The open spots are for the windows. We have some small spots to fill in but still need to run electric wiring etc.


This is the siding choice, there are cheaper ways to reside it, but this stuff is cement coated and tough as rock. Unless you bend it then it snaps real easy......

We will get some small paint samples to paint these to see what colors to go with as well as the trim. I'm real sure that hunter green is part of the trim.


Front floor is almost all gone as well. Then we need to buy 10 sheets of 3/4 inch OSB to do the floor. Tile choices are being worked on as well. The loft area must be torn down so the floor can go in.

March 27th work weekend...

Also known as don't lean on the back wall. No really, don't lean on it.

We had a full weekend, Friday night arrived at hotel and kids went swimming. Saturday we worked on cabin. Finished pulling old wood and 8 million freaking nails out of the studs in the back wall.

Pulled out the old "framing" and put in the window frame as designed. Spent time re-attaching the back wall to the new frame to help solidify it.



The windows only need to be purchased and can be installed in the back wall.

February- beginning the 2010 remodel year

Temps in low 30's, but we got some heat and worked on the insulation for the roof area.

The board is the carsiding put up to see how it would look.

Nov 15th- great weather!!

Well we muddled through a killer stress headache and got the floor partially replaced from the "great chimney smashing incident of 2009". We needed to replace 6 boards that were missing, fix up the framing to hold up the boards and make a door way hatch for access.

We also did more leaf raking and just sat and watched the clouds.