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.

leaves lots of leaves

Quick trip to the cabin to work on the leaves. We took a truck load out to the compost center. Leaves on the one side of the cabin I raked into my garden spot and will use them as compost for the garden. Other side of house was not raked, we hope the wind blows them into the backyard.

Looks like we will be purchasing a propoane heater for the cabin to provide heat during the cold weather.

Well, the weather is a changing. We had a blast this year even if it was a bit rough. Emily and I finished the sub-floor Saturday and spent time cleaning up the mess. We hauled 3 big bags of creosote home for the dumpster and some of the larger pieces of junk. Next year all that will be gone!! The front half of the building still needs to be stripped but it will wait till we get the back half started and the bathroom started.

I will probably still go up north this winter but work projects will be limited to insulating the roof areas and possibly starting the floor work for the laying tile in the living areas. I expect temps will be a big negative, but just being there helps clear my head. We need to do something that makes big heat to use it during the winter.

October 2nd

Worked on putting sub floor in. Kathy and Josh helped for a couple of hours. We got 4-5 sheets to go to cover the back 2/3rds of the house.

Stupid power supply failure caused me to not be able to work on Sunday so no pictures.

Architect has plans completed, pretty close to what we want the place to look like. I need to scan them to post them.

Sept. 20 work weekend

Busy weekend, beautful weather, Ben figured out how to spend Sunday after lunch......
Here's the Saturday work all finished up. And yes, the door frame is level...... This is the first new thing installed on the cabin, demolition is just about all done. We got the front of the cabin to finish up, but the back 2/3rds is go for remodel.
Sunday, me and Maria worked in slow gear, removing the ugly OSB covering the old shower access and fitting in siding to fill in the hole. The "experts" used a chainsaw to make the hole originally. Sheesh......

We also plugged the hole in the sewer line which is in the ground in the bottom pix. Used to be an old vent pipe there that was just sitting on the pipe, not screwed in, and had filled with dirt and rocks. We ran the water pump to wash it out and hopefully keep it clean , but our pump is not making a very high amount of water pressure...

I got like 10-12 spider bites on my backside which I can only guess is they are in my chair!!! Raid on order list!!!! I had planned on installing sub-floor but pulled my neck-shoulder out on the door so heaving around big sheets of wood fell off the list.

Labor Day work party

Well Labor Day is here, summer is winding down. Maybe the mosquitoes will go south soon.

We finally got the ugly walls down, took two work days to do it too....

This roof tie will probably stay and will become a solid looking beam. Basically we got 2/3rds of the cabin ready to now begin working on it. We will start with the back wall windows and door. First thing is the floor needs to be laid down, the subfloor is very bouncy, just ask Ben. Our other major project is the bathroom which is ready for work too. We need to brace the wall and then cut out the bad rotted stuff and replace it. The one end needs some masonry work as the blocks have become loose from the wall.