Bob & Genny's Cabin | Clipper Mills

Removal of ramp

Removal of ramp

Removal of ramp structure

The stairs get a temporary repair

Removal of ramp structure

No more ramp

No more ramp

Dogs

Dogs

Dogs

Duke relaxing on the deck

Duke relaxing on the deck

outside: dog nose

outside: dog nose

nest

Doggie disposal system

Doggie disposal system

Mushrooms

Loading up for a dump run

Leaves and pine needles, oh my!

South is thataway

Adjusting the weather sensor

Duke didn't mind the coat for once. Must be cold.

Dogs in the yard

Dogs in the yard

Buried treasure in the front yard.

Nope, just a freezer

An old Montgomery Wards freezer

A good place to store ....

New tempoary pad

New tempoary pad

New temporary pad

New temporary pad

Mount for sign post

New address sign (finaly, only took a year)

Genny likes it!

Old address sign, pretty faded and hard to see

Old sign is gone

Clearing vegatation for the propane pipe trench

Trench digging

Trench digging

Trench digging

Deeper

Yah, it looks like a trench

Looks good

Minor pipe breakage

caption this

this is what a trench looks like

Perspective is everything

Standard work crew, 1 person works while the rest watch

It's done!

Installing new porch light

new porch light

new porch light

Steve's had enough, he's outa here (Thanks Steve!)

Moved outlet to allow for larger window.

New outside light by kitchen door

Dog deck construction

Dog deck construction

A new dog deck in their favorite corner

Now if they'd just use the deck!

This guy lives under the deck

Trimming the door and window

Spider living the backyard

Spider living the backyard

He's not a small spider

And he only comes out at night

The flash made him want to hide

New panel

New riser

New panel wiring in progress

Genny tries out the new path to the neighbor's house

Looks like a good place for a Japanese Maple

Planted, now will it survive

Larry works on a new dog waste septic system

Larry works on a new dog waste septic system

Repurposing the old kitchen cabinets

The sink base isn't needed in the shed.

How could you do things like this without a sawzall

Th old kitchen cabinets in the work well in the shed

The shed has been re-organized. Anyone need a 2 wheeled lawnmower?

More shed organization

Tree service!

Getting rid of the deadwood

The bucket truck can get them way up in the trees

Sandie relaxes on her deck

The septic tank

Yuck!

Sandie helps dig out the septic line.

If you ever wondered what the inside of a septic tank looks like.

Genny cleaned up the deck

and the roof. We're now mostly fire-safe.

Septic pipe

Snowy driveway

Snowy Camp Sungarugus

Snowy driveway

snow on the side of the road

snow on the side of the road

Snowy driveway

Snowy Camp Sungarugus

It's a winter wonderland outside the bedroom window

Icicles

Laporte in the winter

Laporte hotel in the winter

Laporte Rd.

Larry and Bob installing window trim

The new (well now 2 year old) windows get trim

New trim on the kitchen door

Bob adding outside window trim

Bob adding outside window trim

Back bedroom window trim

Duke in his sylish sap socks

Sandie in her sylish sap socks

Genny and Sandie in the snow

Genny and Sandie in the snow

Genny with Duke and Sandie in the snow

Sandie goes exploring in the snow

Sandie goes exploring in the snow

Sandie goes exploring in the snow

Genny and Duke in the snow

Genny, Duke, and Sandie

Ganapathy's cabin

Ganapathy's cabin

Winter in Merry Mountain

Winter in Merry Mountain

Winter in Merry Mountain

The snow covered trees block our cabin

The snow covered trees block our cabin

Winter in Merry Mountain

Overnight snow fall

Overnight snow fall

Overnight snow fall

Overnight snow fall

Overnight snow fall

Overnight snow fall

Overnight snow fall

Overnight snow fall

Overnight snow fall

Overnight snow fall

Cabin in the snow

Cabin in the snow

Cabin in the snow

Cabin in the snow

Cabin in the snow

Deck structure

Deck structure

outside back - pre-stain

outside back - pre-stain

outside side - pre-stain

outside - pre-stain

outside front - pre-stain

outside front - pre-stain

outside side - pre-stain

outside side - pre-stain

outside side - pre-stain

outside utility - pre-stain

old deck

old deck

old deck

old deck

old deck

old deck

old deck

old deck

old deck

First bit of stain applied

Staining

Clouds of stain

Front getting stain, this is the most difficult part

Front stained

outside side - stained

outside back - stained

outside front - stained

outside front - stained

outside side - stained

Deck post footings

Holes for new deck post footings

Mixing cement

Mixing cement

Making a footing

Completed footings

Footings, one bag at a time...

These are new footings for our deck extension

Getting ready to mix up bag #22

Three bags and it's just about full

Footings complete for the new fire pit area

Footings for the deck extension

Holes dug for the walkway footings

Walkway footing holes

Filling the tube with cement

Filling the tube with cement

Almost full

Tramping down the bottom

Getting ready to mix up bag %29

Second walkway footing almost finished

Two down, one to go

Filling footing #3

Filling footing #3

Looks like we'll need one more bag at least

Last of the footings

Last one finished (for now)

Genny prepping the door for paint

Genny taping up the door

Genny painting the front door

Painted kitchen door

Painted front door

Painted front and balcony doors

Sample of Hog Wild Tahoe railing

The original front deck

The original front deck

The original front deck

Down with the railing

Larry thinking, this is going to be too easy...

Tearing off more railing

We don't need stairs anymore do we?

Ripping and tearing

Can we just pull this thing down?

Barbara watches the progress

some of these bits are interconnected and need some finess

Keep prying, it will come loose eventually

Supervisors selfie

Cutting the deck down to size

The big hammer

Less deck, more debris

Don't know what we're all looking at

Maybe we can stare (stair) it down?

Stair treads coming down

one down, 6 to go

These joists are better attached than we thought

One big step down from the door

The last one down!

?

Mixing cement for new footings

Mixing cement for new footings

Still mixing cement

Lets make a small sidewalk

Still mixing cement

Still mixing cement

Only break from mixing was dumping the cement

dumping cement

smoothing cement

smoothing cement

Snapping a line for the ledger board

Deck parts, some assembly required.

Deck parts, some assembly required.

Cutting a slot for flashing

Cutting a slot for flashing

Cutting a slot for flashing

Driving the LedgerLoc screws.

Routing slots for the electrical ground wire conduit

Routing slots for the electrical ground wire conduit

Cutting a post

Installing a post

We need a bigger power saw for the 6x6 posts

Cutting each side almost cuts through the post

Triming the beam to length

1/2 the beam

Preparing to laminate 2 2x12's for the beam

Installing a joist

Nailing in the joist to beam connector

Some palm nailer action

Low hanging joists

We have joists

The front deck all joisted up

Rim board (with nice bow, I think Lowes gave us the crappiest boards they could find.

More joists

It's starting to look like we have a deck again

Getting ready to tear down this deck section

Start by tossing all the old pier blocks we have laying around.

One last look at the old deck

Lets take this one next

Break time

Making progress

and it's gone. Time for new pier blocks

Looks a bit empty now

We need the pier low enough for a bit of post

All this will soon be a deck

Mixing cement

Making a pier block

Mix, shovel, repeat

Whos idea was it to make these this tall?

Hard labor for all

Ledger board installed

Bolting the ledger board to the cabin

Posts mounted

Waiting for some beams

Removing roof post #2

Installing new roof post #2

Nailing in new roof post #1

Installing new roof post #6

Installing new roof post #6

Triming a 2x12 for one of the beams

Beam install

Beam install

We have new beams!

Triming joist to length

Getting ready to install some joists

First few joists installed

What?

Continuing to install joists

More joists

Done with this section

Working on the joists for the corner

Pay no attention to the warped boards

Cutting a 6x6 for the lower deck

Another view of the joists

Is it level?

Yet another view of the joists

Is it plumb?

Installing a post for the lower deck

Finishing up the corner joists

Corner joists almost done

Removing roof post #2

Installing new roof post #2

Nailing in new roof post #1

Installing new roof post #6

Installing new roof post #6

Triming a 2x12 for one of the beams

Beam install

Beam install

We have new beams!

Triming joist to length

Getting ready to install some joists

First few joists installed

What?

Continuing to install joists

More joists

Done with this section

Working on the joists for the corner

Pay no attention to the warped boards

Cutting a 6x6 for the lower deck

Another view of the joists

Is it level?

Yet another view of the joists

Is it plumb?

Installing a post for the lower deck

Finishing up the corner joists

Corner joists almost done

laminating 2x12's for a beam

Laminating 2nd beam

Beams for the lower deck

What?

Adding some blocking

More blocking installation

Rim board

First railing post test

Lower deck diagnal bracing

Making the lower deck solid

No one wants a wobbly deck

No wobble here

Finishing up the bracing

Solid!

Lower deck joists

Lower deck joists

Lower deck joists

Lower deck joists

About half done with the joists

Only a couple more left to install

Done!

Adding some blocking to straighten out the warped joist

The lower deck, this is all new space

It's starting to look like something

Adding corner joists

Attempting to level the joists

Nailing in corner braces

Preparing for a railing post install

Probably still preparing for the post

More post work

It's like a post forest

Breaking up old stair pad

Breaking up old stair pad

Breaking up old stair pad

Breaking up old stair pad

Broken stair pad

Broken stair pad

Broken stair pad

Last post - for the stair rail

Notching Trex

First Trex board going in

Second Trex board

There's just enough boards installed to stand on

When using the wrong clips, every one needs a bit of adjustment

About half way done with the first section

Where do we want to cut all these?

At least one of us is working

Starting the second section

Adding deck board

Adding deck board

Tweaking hidden fasteners

Second section almost done

Screwing down the hidden fasteners

It's starting to look like a deck

Checking out today's work

We have some deck!

We have some deck!

Deck

Dogwood tree

Dogwood tree

Notching Trex

Wood fence

Notching Trex

Rusty

Working the hidden fasteners

Duke, in socks

Sandie, in sockes

Screwing down fasteners

Adding more decking

Getting ready for a custom fit deck board

Fits perfect

Somebody wasn't too careful with our Trex

Working on the bump out.

These go down long and then get trimmed to size

Some of this we can use, but we expected better

Can't quite get the ends trimed with the cicular saw

Bump out decked

Deck shots - Oct 1st, 2018

Deck shots - Oct 1st, 2018

Deck shots - Oct 1st, 2018

Deck shots - Oct 1st, 2018

Deck shots - Oct 1st, 2018

Still more to do

Deck shots - Oct 1st, 2018

The corner half done

The corner

Last bit of the corner

It's going to be a tight fit

It fits

Trimming off the squirl diving boards

Triming the ends

Trimming the other side of the corner

Last bit needs to be trimmed by hand

Lower deck

Done for the day - need to order longer boards

How many 20 foot board do we need?

Not quite half way done

A lot of usable deck now

Test fitting some railing

Successful test

Wrapping the posts to make them look better

First railing section installed

Seems ok

Three railing sections installed

Starting to look like a real deck

Progress on the lower deck

Lower deck in progress

Taking a break

Lower deck

Installing deck boards

Down to the last board

It fits!

Notching to fit around post

Trimming off the excess

Just need to follow that line

From jaggy to smooth

From jaggy to smooth

Trimmed and looking neat

Walkway decking

Back walkway framing

Walkway framing and decking

Back walkway framing

Installing walkway decking

forms for the stair pad

Railing topper

redwood decking

Using the deck framing as a staining stand

Kitchen side stair pad poured

Kitchen side stair pad poured

Preparing for front pad forms

Preparing for front pad forms

Front pad form in progress

Front pad form in progress

Kitchen side stairs installed! The deck is accessible

No more climbing to get on the deck, take the stairs!

Pouring the front pad

Pouring the front pad

Pouring the front pad

Pouring the front pad

Making the front pad smooth

Working on the last section of the pad

Working on the last section of the pad

Pour complete

Completed front pad pour

Installing railing panels

Ignore that glue bottle, it's really held together with

Railing panels installed around deck extension

It feels much safer now

Almost looks like a real deck

Another view of the railings

View of the railing

Just look at all that lovely railing

Front railings installed

Railings

Railings

Railings

Railings

Railings

Kitchen side stairs get some fascia boards.