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Showing up at our next camp

to meet David
and Kelly Wilkinson.

This winter, a huge tree
fell on their camp

We knew this wall was bad,
but it's looking like

we're gonna have to tear
the whole thing out now.

Wow, look at that.

- Yeah.
- Nice!

How big is this teepee?

That's what we have
to figure out.

- Oh, no! Watch out, watch out!
- Watch out!

- Oh, my word.
- This is awesome.

My mind is blown here.

[narrator] In a place
called Vacation Land...

Time to get to work.

...there are thousands of cabins that
have been unchanged for decades...

Everything must go.

...all over
the great state of Maine.

Chase Morrill
and his family of Mainers

renovate, restore, and save
these historic structures.

Are we in the right place?

I'm Chase, and I lead the team.

Ashley is my sister,
she's also the designer.

Ryan's my brother-in-law.
He's my voice of reason.

Dixie and Jedi can handle
any job you throw at them.

Nice!

Wow!

Our crew is the best
at what we do.

- Nice job on this one.
- Cheers!

We're all best friends,
and we love it.

Hey, what's Chase going to
show up in today?

So he gave us some clues.

He gave us some clues,
he told us to wear our

- favorite t-shirts.
- Favorite.

It goes back
to the summer of '95.

- He's gonna be coming in some sort of, like, hippie mobile.
- Yeah.

Oh, you can hear it purring.
Listen.

[vehicle rumbling]

- [laughs] Oh!
- Oh, you can hear that thing purring.

[honking]

Yes!

It's like Christmas!
That thing is beautiful.

Yes!

About time you got a real ride.

[Ashley laughing]

[honking]

We don't have any tickets.
Can you still pick us up?

- Nice ride.
- Where in the world did you get this?

Borrowed it from a friend.

This is beautiful.

You really got to push down
on the door handle to get in.

She's going through
the front door.

Well, let's turn around
and go on tour.

[Ryan] Seeing chase pull up
in that van today brought back

a lot of memories,
it was awesome.

I just wanted
to get in that thing.

Still want to have a wife,
but no mortgage.

You know, just get
on the road, go on tour.

- See some shows.
- Still want to have a wife.

The reason we're driving in this is
we're showing up at our next camp

to meet David
and Kelly Wilkinson.

Got a place on Bear Pond
in Hartford.

And David used to drive a VW
all around Europe.

Love him already. Yeah.

This winter, a huge tree
fell on their camp.

- Oh, no.
- Ripped the power right off,

crushed part of the roof,
blowed out some of the walls.

So they are
in desperate need of help.

A hippie in need,
we're here for him.

- A hippie in need.
- We're on our way, Dave.

- Hey!
- Hey!

- [dog barking]
- Here comes the dog.

[Ashley]
The welcoming committee.

- Nice.
- This is awesome.

Where's your instruments?
We heard there was a concert.

I was totally psyched
about seeing the bus come in.

I travelled around in Europe
and Africa in 1956.

Small window, beat up...

Hey, welcome to Wit's End.

So we're the Wilkinsons.

I'm Dave Wilkinson.

My wife Kelly.

My son Rex and my son Sy.

Wow, look at those pine trees.

[Ashley] I heard a tree hit.

Yeah, a tree hit on the other
side of camp in late February.

And it's called Wit's End.

It is figuratively
and literally...

I'm at my wit's end.

We're here now,
so you guys are all good.

One of these monsters
fell on it.

- Yes.
- Yeah.

Hopefully nobody was here
when it happened.

- No.
- It was February.

It was over the winter.

It was a dark and stormy
February morning

when the dreaded call
came in saying,

"Hey, Dave, you've got a big
pine tree on your camp."

- It used to be straight.
- But it's still standing.

Oh, it's still standing.

And that says something
right there.

Somehow, some way.

It's a kid camp
from the '60s, of course,

and there's two cables that
connect these walls together,

and that's probably the one
thing that kept from making it crash

right to the ground
when the tree hit.

So other than this, before the
accident, was there other stuff

that you were looking
to have done before?

Well, I need a much steeper pitch
roof on this with a metal roof on it,

And then I'd like to get
a roof over the front porch.

- Yeah.
- We have some cool trim boards that I had painted,

and I really want them saved
as much as they possibly could

and put somewhere in the camp.

- Yeah.
- You know, windows in the gable ends,

- and lighten it up a little bit.
- Lighten it up.

- Yeah.
- Do I get a new kitchen?

Because I wanted one in my
house and that hasn't happened.

So if I can get a new kitchen
here, that would be awesome!

[all laughing]

And keep the look as same
as much as possible.

Yeah, you know, the
vertical log, the weather,

that's really
the character of it.

- For sure.
- If we can try to salvage as much of that to fill in

when things are done.

And I built stone steps going down
to the beach because it's kind of steep.

I would like a set of stairs built on
the other end of the bank down there

- down to the beach.
- Safer access down to the...

For old people
and little people.

- And you know...
- For everybody!

Yeah, for everybody. Exactly.

So looks like we can
get started right away.

- Good.
- What's our time frame?

Sometime before
maybe the end of summer.

So we get a little bit of time

and a nice
September fall, too. So...

How much are you looking
to invest into the repairs?

Start at $55,000.

Okay, yeah, I mean, new roof,
loft, sleeping space,

porch on the front,
update the kitchen.

- Kitchen, bathroom.
- Bathroom.

Back the walls together
Just really...

[laughing]

- Awesome.
- We're very ready.

We just need a set of keys.

Here you go, brother.

Hey, thank you very much.

And what is this?

This is the key
to the sliding door.

- It's never locked.
- [all laugh]

I like this key.

- Thanks for coming.
- Thanks for having us.

Knowing that we got real pros,

good carpenters, who are
going to do a good job,

- oh, I mean...
- A lot less stress.

- A lot less stress.
- Yeah.

Let them do their magic.

And, you know,
both Sy's wife Adrienne

and Rex's partner D,
they're with child,

and it's due
in the middle of August.

So this is going to be a place
where we can grow as a family.

- Oh.
- Ooh!

She's dark, and woody.

A lot of knotty pine in here.

- Tiny kitchen.
- [Ashley laughs]

[Ryan] Look at this.

- Really nice.
- Looks like an eight-track kitchen.

Oh, my God, look at the holes
in the ceiling.

This thing is twisted,
turned, knotted.

That's probably what
held this place together, huh?

How it did not fall down,
those cables, is the only way.

When you first look at it,
it doesn't look that bad,

then you look close,
you can see gaps there.

This wall
is all twisted right here.

That blows way out.

- This place is dark.
- It is dark.

This wall needs to be
knocked right out. Boom.

Yeah, not much of a view.

Look at that,
that whole wall's shifted.

This is where
it's supposed to be.

I think that's even out.

Oh, look right there.

- Yeah, no...
- That's not the deck.

- Yeah.
- That's the deck right there.

- It's supposed to be...
- There it is.

- They're really, really lucky.
- Right there. Wow!

How did this place not collapse?

Look at this wall.

So this is supposed to be
lined up with these holes?

No, no, this is way out.

This might be
a can of worms, Chase.

Oh, it definitely is.

I heard that budget,
I thought that was going to be

a lot of money, but after walking
around and seeing everything...

- Look at the gap right there.
- Yeah.

It's a can of worms,
so that budget might be close.

Well, it's time.

- Yeah.
- Time for what?

- Call the guys.
- Yes.

- Let's do it.
- Guys.

We need a bigger van.

[all laugh]

[Chase] So the Wilkinsons
have $55,000

to make this camp usable again.

Massive pine fell on it,

so that means the entire
roof system needs to come off.

And since we're taking the
roof off, we're going to increase

the pitch of the roof,
get some loft sleeping space

for the additional family
members that are coming along.

We're going to upgrade the
kitchen, get a covered porch out front,

and just, you know,
try and bring it back to life.

I feel confident we're gonna
get some stuff done today.

We got a lot of good people,
and many hands makes light work.

So we're going at these demos
this year like crazy.

Let's get everyone there the first
day and get as much done as possible.

Then break the crews apart.

You might as well
call Chase coach today,

we got a whole team here.

And just be careful of the end.

There's holes
under the tarps, right?

Well, yeah, we'll get
the tarp off, but that end,

structurally,
it's a little funny.

Grab that corner, so we're not dumping
the pine needles all on the roof up here.

How many cattle mats
did he throw on the roof?

So once we peeled back
the tarp that they had put on

to temporarily protect the
inside, you could see how they had

used 2 by 4s
and a couple sheets of plywood

to kind of, you know,
support that.

[laughs] Look at that!

[Chase] And you really could see the
extent of the damage from the pine tree.

- Wow!
- Phew!

The damage was a lot more extensive
than what was visible originally.

Okay, do not step there.

[laughs] Look at that.

Okay, do not step there.

You know, we got
all the guys here today.

We got up on the roof,
we peeled back the tarp

that they had put on to
temporarily protect the inside.

And you really could see the extent
of the damage from the pine tree.

It crunched right through
a part of the roof.

It really is surprising that it
didn't take the whole thing.

You'll fall through there
in a hurry.

This is the way to roof
right here.

All hands on deck.

Yeah, so Ashley
wanted us to save this.

The owner put
a lot of time into this.

So pretty cool piece,
we'll save it,

she'll do
something cool with it.

Awesome.

You know, this camp
was in great shape,

but that tree just whacked
everything apart.

So, you know, one thing,

they said the camp was perfect,

but if they had
to change something,

they want a little more room,
so roof's coming off.

We're going to add a steeper
pitch, put some sleeping upstairs.

Typical cabin master dream job.

Throw some sleeping upstairs,

metal roof,
place is gonna be met.

See the post.

Hey, guys!

Dixie, Jedi, Chase, come here!

So we could hear Ryan
screaming in the woods.

I thought he was yelling for toilet
paper, but he had found a teepee.

Going to have to reconstruct
a teepee, are we?

- Dixie?
- Yes?

Driving home
from Jefferson last night,

on Cooper road, there's
a custom canvas company.

Like, for boats and stuff?

For boats, sheds, you name it.

They could probably do a teepee.

The homeowners, I'm sure,
would be ecstatic.

Oh, they'd love a little teepee.

Bear pond, where a tree
fell through the roof

and we're going to
replace it with a teepee.

So the plan was to at least
strip the roof of all the shingles.

Just to kind of see
what we're working with

and just take it
as far as we needed to.

We had so many guys here today ready to
work that we were able to get it stripped,

and peel back a lot
of the sheathing boards.

And while we were peeling them
back, we got all the way to the edge

where the walls are, and we kind of
decided that was a good place to stop.

Solid.

That'll hold the top.

Perfect timing, cabin masters!

With most of the guys, we were
able to get the roof stripped back,

the sheathing peeled back,
we got it tarped over just in time

for a thunderstorm
to pass through.

And we're at a really good point to
come up with a plan for rebuilding the roof

but first step is raising the
camp, kind of leveling it out,

squaring the walls back up
as much as possible

so that when we do start
framing up the roof, you know,

we're close to where
we need to be.

The team is out
jacking the camp.

Every time they jack the back
up, the front moves just as much.

Whoa!

Wow! Look at that!

We knew this wall was bad,
but it's looking like

we're gonna have to tear
the whole thing out now.

That wall there needs a little bit
of adjustment I'm not sure about.

That wall was swinging, you
could push it 6 inches each way.

Really what happened is
those cables saved that camp.

I mean, it was pretty bad.

We spent a lot of time just
getting that first floor back.

That'll make Ash happy.

She wanted to replace the
whole wall with windows anyways.

So we're back in Hartford, it's week two,
we were able to get the roof system off.

There's a little damage on the top
foot, but that whole wall is coming off.

So if we break something,
it's okay.

So B has an idea.

We're going to
tie a rope around that.

Do a relief cutting, and
the guys will pull it forward,

hopefully it'll separate
right on the top plate.

Key word is "hopefully."

All right, give us...

I think she's going to go.

Pull. Just pull it
nice and easy.

There you go, yeah, it's coming.

It's exactly what
we want to happen.

Nice and slow. Yeah!

Nice! Touchdown.

[Chase] So we're at
the Wilkinson camp.

Last night, there were
some big thunderstorms.

So we got it tarped over,
covered over,

and this morning,
it's a beautiful, sunny day

and we have a few issues we found
yesterday that we need to get into today.

[Chase] Holy moly.

That's bad.

[Chase] Holy moly.

The Wilkinsons' had told us
that they had water issues.

When we came here, they
had a tarp kind of sloping

to keep the water
from running in.

They had drilled
weep holes in the deck.

And all that water
flowing that way

got into this
gable end wall. [exclaims]

I mean, it's everywhere.

You know, from the back side,
it doesn't look bad, but...

We got rot. Holy smokes.

That's bad.

So the plan is to cut these out,

put a couple
of new joists in there,

flash it properly, and then put,

our pressure-treated
back on there,

bolt it all together.

And then we should
be in good shape

to build our gabled-end
wall off of that.

[upbeat rock music playing]

[humming a flourish]

[Chase] All right. Progress.

We decided to go with a
12/12 pitch down to the camp.

We're gonna start putting
the floor deck down in the loft,

and we're gonna kind of frame up
a little bit of the downstairs layout

in order to support
the entire roof system,

get space for a access
to the loft,

- and that's about it.
- [Ryan] Lovely.

[upbeat music playing]

Excellent. Good.

Chase and I were talking
about cedar shaking this place.

We both had the same aha moment.

I think he said fairy tale,
I said Santa's village.

Those little cottages you see?
Gnome houses?

We both like, and then...

Justin and BT really killed it.

It came out better
than I thought it would,

and it looks like you'd see
at an amusement park,

or some gnome house
in the gnome zone.

It looks like it's a random
pattern, but it's not.

There's some math involved,
it's just offset,

and we used a thicker shingle,

so it really, really looks good.

It just gives it depth
and that cool characteristic.

We are back
at the Wilkinson camp.

Francis is showing up today to pull
back a lot of the soil around that side

and on the back gabled-end
to help with drainage,

help with splashback
back up onto the camp.

We decided to leave
these original overhangs

because with the new pitch,

it would have brought them
down over the windows.

It's nice to have such
a wide overhang,

again to kind of keep water
away from the camp.

And we're today working

on doing a covered porch
on the water side.

And inside, we have
whole new loft space.

Before, it had cable ties
holding it all together.

We took those out, put in a new
floor joist across the whole thing.

We're going to ship the small
kitchen from over there to the front,

and that allows us
to take a little space

to have a ladder
up into the loft.

[Dixie] It's, it's a front
porch blitz.

I hate having multiple screws
in my pouch.

[Dixie] Keep 'em in your beard.

[drilling]

When I need a hand
to hold a rafter,

I just tuck
one or two right here,

and then I know
I've always got one handy.

Whoa.

- [Ashley] Hi, Dixie.
- Hey, Ash. What's up?

- The place looks great. Lots happened here, huh?
- Not much.

- [Dixie] Just hanging out.
- [Ashley] I like this color on the underside.

- It's real minty, isn't it?
- Very minty.

So there's a lot going on. The guys
are framing in the roof on the porch.

And I decided that
I was going to paint

the fancy piece of trim
that David had wanted to keep.

When we did the demo,
I wasn't able to be here.

So, Ryan took these off
and saved 'em for me.

David really liked 'em.
He hand-painted them.

So I was thinking I could take
and paint around these little things,

but with the trim color
we have now.

[bird screeching]

[Chase] So Francis is here
today with this excavator.

He's here to help dig away
a lot of the debris and dirt

built up around the camp,
and also dig a trench

for our underground power line.

Landscaping bucket
and trenching bucket?

- Good to see you, buddy.
- Good.

Brought my buddy
Francis in today.

I saw a stump.

Unfortunately, the biggest section of
that root's going right under the house.

I hate stumps!

I saw Francis with the machine.

[cheering]

Francis won.

Yeah. Trophy.

[laughs] Yeah, we won.

These colors really
aren't similar enough.

I think I'm just gonna go for it

and just paint it.

Today we're at
the Wilkinson camp.

Yeah. My job today
is to paint the trim.

[Ryan] Schmidty, take your
hat off for this scene, please.

We need full Schmidt.

[Ashley] Oh, my god.
What is happening?

- [Ryan] I have not seen this.
- [Ashley laughing]

[Ashley] All right.

[Ashley] Today I got
to work with Schmidty

who's a senior in high school.

When we took off his hat, he
had the most ridiculous hair.

[Ryan] What are you doing
to him over here?

But I guess actually,
he's cut it for a part

that he's playing
in the school play.

[Ashley] You're a musical
theatre performer? Tell me more.

I did four musicals
in high school.

For? What ones?

The Addams family, Footloose,
Into The Woods.

- Who were you in Footloose?
- Ren McCormack.

- [Ashley] I don't remember him.
- The dancer, yeah.

- [Schmidty] He was the lead.
- [Ashley] Oh. Can you do a little something?

- A little something?
- A little something.

[Ashley and Schmidty laughing]

I'll work with you all day.
Forget about the rest of the guys.

[Ashley] And Schmidty,
I'll keep him around.

He's quite entertaining.

He's got some great dance
moves. Taught me a few.

[Ashley] I love it. [mumbles]

I love it. Looks great. I'm
glad we decided to paint it.

Here you go. I got it.
Okay, let me show you.

[Ashley laughs]

[music playing]

[both] Whoo!

- [Schmidty] Nice.
- [laughs]

- [Ashley] Hey, Chase?
- Yes?

I'm headed over
to the Wilkinsons' barn

to see if they have anything
that we can use here.

Fantastic. We need
a ladder to the loft.

A ladder? You think
they have one there?

They mentioned they had a...

Have something like that?

- Yeah. Like a library ladder, something like that.
- A library ladder?

So the Wilkinsons' came in
after the tree fell on the roof

and took out all the furniture
and moved it over to their barn.

- I'll let you know if I find anything cool.
- Great.

[Ashley] Today I'm going
to go to the barn

and check out what they do
have to see what I can use.

- [Ashley] Hello?
- Hi, Ash.

- Hey, how's it going?
- [Dave] Hey.

- Welcome.
- I hear you got some treasures over here.

[Dave laughs]

[Ashley] Isn't it
beautiful here.

- [Kelly] Thanks.
- [Ashley] This is gorgeous.

[Dave] Thanks for coming.
End of the road.

[Ashley] Awesome. Yes.
So, what do you have?

We dredged some stuff from
camp when we had to get it all out.

You could look at our porch
and say, well,

here's one thing we had at camp.

This fish right here.

- [Ashley] That fish looks great there.
- [Dave] It does?

- [laughing] - It'll look
great at camp, too.

- It is really cool.
- It's up to you.

- [Ashley] Here we go.
- [Dave] Come on in, Ash.

[Kelly] There are a couple
of funky pieces here.

This was a great find.

[Dave] It would be awesome to
incorporate this somehow in the camp.

- This is something I found in my travels.
- This is neat.

[Ashley] Picking is a big
piece of the design.

I feel like today is Christmas.

I found so much
great stuff to bring back

to incorporate back
into the cabin.

And so yeah, I'm ready to go.

I wish it was done.

- [Ashley] That's a gong.
- [gong sounding]

Dinner's ready.

[Dave and Kelly laughing]

Gosh, you guys have
a lot of cool stuff.

I'm also supposed to be
looking for a ladder.

- Yeah. Oh, yeah.
- Yeah.

- Let's go see the ladder.
- Okay.

Let's check it out.

I like to hear that other people
like the stuff that I've collected.

He's called me a hoarder
before, which I'm not,

- but I just like my stuff.
- You've got good stuff.

But Ashley liked my stuff, so
I feel pretty good about that.

So, we've been here 24 years,

and this ladder's
been here for 24 years.

I think it's a library ladder.

It could have been
from a pharmacy,

it could have been from
a haberdashery shop.

I have no idea.

[Ashley] I think it'll work,
I'm not the expert.

So I'm gonna take some
measurements and report back to Chase.

We will see you soon.

- Okay, bye.
- Peace out to you guys.

[Ashley] Chase has been
working on this tepee.

Since I was here
at Chase's workshop today,

he had me come down and
help him get this tepee up.

- [Chase] Oops, it's going.
- [Ashley] Oh, no. Watch out, watch out!

- [Chase laughing] Ashley.
- [Ashley laughing]

[Ashley] I stopped by
the Wilkinsons'.

They have a barn full of
treasures, just like Chase.

I found an old library ladder,

so I put on top of my car
and brought it over to Chase's.

- That's perfect.
- That's what I thought.

- It might be too long, but...
- No, it's perfect.

We took it off the top of my car
and he thinks it's gonna be perfect.

We don't even have to
really do anything to it.

- One project done.
- That was easy.

Wham! This is how I like
my special project days.

All right. Hopefully
the tepee poles are that easy.

- Come with me.
- Tepee poles? You have 'em?

Also in the Wilkinson camp, Chase
has been working on this tepee.

Since I was
at Chase's workshop today,

he had me come down and
help him get this tepee up.

I got it. [grunts in pain]

They're pinching me.

Are you kidding me?

Uh, it's a bunch of sticks.

- Should we cut 'em?
- No.

That are all like... I can't
believe that that thing went up.

- Hey, what do you want me to do?
- Start spreading 'em out.

- How big is this tepee?
- That's what we have to figure out.

Anyway, We put 'em all together,

and then we pushed 'em up.

- [Chase] Oops, it's going.
- [Ashley] Oh, no. Watch out! Watch out!

[both laughing]

[Chase] Ashley.

[Chase] Ashley was skeptical about
the two of us being able to set it up.

[Ashley grunts] Oh, my gosh.
What are we gonna do now?

- Okay, good. I got it.
- [Ashley screams]

[Ashley] Start pulling 'em out.

[Chase] It was a little awkward
just having those poles all together.

But once we got it stood up,

we were able to stretch it out and see
what size tepee we were working with.

And we laid 'em out and
then decided to use lumber tarp

to kind of cut the pattern.

[Ashley] Oh, yeah.

- [Ashley] You got a knife? Let's cut this tarp up.
- I don't.

[Chase] We'll then take that pattern
to somebody who works with canvas

and get something sewn up.

I've watched enough Project Runway
to know how to make a dress form.

[upbeat music playing]

[Chase] The last
couple of weeks,

we have finished off
the gabled ends.

We reused the old siding
on the lower part

underneath the new roof,

and interior was finished off.

On the front side of the camp,

we have the new 12/12
pitch of the roof,

and we have the existing roof
line of the front-covered porch,

which didn't allow a lot of
space for windows above that.

So, we would have had
to buy specific triangles.

Those would have taken
five, six weeks to order.

We couldn't fit square
because it's a pitched roof.

So we had these two
three-by-three windows.

They're fixed opening anyways.
They're nice windows.

So what we did, we just turned
them 90 degrees and put 'em in.

They fit in perfectly.

Nasty old piece of wood
I found on the ground,

we're going turn
into beautiful trim.

Those diamond windows stick out.

You have to do a reverse
extension jamb to pad them out.

So I'm trying to think of the
easiest way to get it done.

There's no right or wrong way,

just whatever I can figure out
to do it quick and easy

and inexpensive.

Since I have
a forty five-degree angle,

it's gonna be mitered together.

The sides are kind of soft.

I'm gonna square everything up.

Then I'll rework with that.

[laughs exultantly] Love it.

[Ashley] Windows are awesome.
They'll let in lots of light up there.

They're kind of unique too.
You don't see that too up there,

usually you just see one
big one. They're funky people.

[Ashley] So I think they're gonna like it,
and the balcony I've had the colors style

all the way through, from the
porch all the way into the exit wall

and up to the loft.

What we decided to do
on the front covered porch is

just have the stairs go
right across the whole front,

we did away with the stairs
on the side

because of the overhang
and the rain dripping down,

nobody's going to want
to walk through that,

So we knew we needed
to railings on each side.

And we want to go with something
that kind of matched up the siding.

I looked in my woodpile down
back and I found two pieces of cedar

and they were the right
length, you know, close enough.

So I brought those along,
cut those, put those in place

and put the piece
of cedar on top of it.

Now we've got railings on the
sides, and there was nothing before,

it was lifted up a little bit, so we
decided to put these railings on.

Just to keep people
from going over the side

and make it a little bit safer.

Come on. Gus, Charlie come.

- Just hope it fits.
- Come on.

Check out our new puppy, guys.

- What library did you steal this from?
- Say "hi" to Charlie.

Our new puppy's name is Charlie.

[Ashley] She is a rescue from Georgia.
She's a sweet little Georgia belle.

So Charlie's gonna be
Gus' his little sister

and we're so excited
to have her.

Woah, cool.

- It's going here on the fridge and stuff.
- Yeah.

[Ashley] Like those
cabinets there.

- That looks good.
- Like it?

This place looks great. Yeah.

Feeling here is really great,
um,

the windows let in so much more light,
the cabinets being white, kind of break up

that wood, just, the
whole place feels lighter.

[Ryan] Want me to secure it
in place?

Oh, yeah, perfect.

- She's not even up two steps, is perfect.
- It's cute, it's little.

I don't care that it's cute,
it doesn't function properly.

It does all of that. This
is a nice functioning loft.

This is a cute little
space up here.

[Ashley] So, vote, what are we
gonna do about this countertop?

[Ryan] We had everything
for the kitchen,

We have the cabinets.
We had the countertop.

We have the sink. We got the
countertop in there, and unfortunately

had a backsplash. And we need
a countertop without a backsplash

Counter top...

is no good, because it
has a backsplash

that is going to go
cover these outlets.

We really don't have time
for this right now,

but that countertop
is just not going to fit.

We're down to the final week and the punch
list is pretty long, but it is doable.

[Ryan] We've got to get
the kitchen cabinets in,

we gotta get countertops
from Shad's.

We gotta get Doug to
plumb that stuff in,

build the outside access
point to the lake,

finalize the landscaping.

[Ryan] And our friends
from? Roofing,

I've talked to them.

We have four days. They
will get that roof done.

That roof is coming in today.

They're going to put it
on tomorrow.

But other than that,
we're getting close.

Besides the roof, the other last big
project is going to be access to the lake.

[Ashley] You havin' fun?

Hi!

[Ryan] They were concerned
about having a nice stairway,

so we are going to build
nice big stairway.

Charlie fetches more
than Gus. [laughs]

What I'll do is I'll cut
the rest of these

and I'll build him as like a kit and
then we can level the whole thing.

- Oh, yeah.
- That is a lot easier.

You okay? Things are perfect.
These stairs came together

just the way we thought
they were going to.

Be a nice, easy transition
up the hillside.

They won't be stubbing their
toes on these old rocks anymore.

That looks mental.

It's the eye of the tiger.

That's it.

Today, um, I was just kind of
purposing a few things, cleaning them up.

There was an old cabinet that David
really liked from a private property.

So we grabbed that, and
I was able to clean it up

and put in fresh contact paper.

- Look away!
- [Ashley] Chase and Charlie have become close friends.

Chase is holding him
like a baby.

I think Chase wants
some more babies.

I gotcha, I gotcha, I gotcha.

[indistinct]

[Chase] The guys have been
here working on the front steps.

We are almost ready to hand
over the Wilkinson camp.

Last thing that needs to be done

is the countertop needs to
go in, appliances in place.

We've got Doug here
to finish up the plumbing.

Beautiful. Just in time.
I mean...

You know, the roof's
going on today as well.

So I feel like the last minute.

So now it's just a matter of
cutting out an opening for the sink.

Drop the sink in,
lock countertop, done.

This is done.

The Wilkinsons,
after visiting their barn,

I see that they have
a completely eclectic taste.

[Ashley] I was fortunate
to be able to use

a lot of the furniture
and what they had,

so I had my design team come in,

they placed all the items that
we saw over the Wilkinson's barn,

so they want to keep
the knotty pine look,

it's a lot of pine.

They're going to be ways
that I can break up the pine.

I'm just going to do a
couple finishing touches,

will feel like their place, but
also it will have our spin on it.

- [woman] Pretty level.
- [Ashley] No, I think it's even.

Mornin', Chase. Good morning!

I had my coffee.
I'm ready to put up TP

[Ashley] You get your buddy
Gavin today?

[Chase] Yeah.

All right. I'll show you
where we're going to put it.

- [Ashley] Put what?
- The teepee!

It's the last day at the
Wilkinson camp, and Chase and I

have a few things to finish up.

One big one is installing
the teepee.

We're confident
with the teepee up.

We constructed it at Chase's.

At first, it wasn't easy at Chase's,
but then it went up and we got it.

So I knew that we wouldn't have
any problem getting it up today.

- Yeah. I painted this teepee last night.
- [Chase] Fantastic.

Old main flag on it. I spent
last night painting the canvas,

I put pine Tree and a star,
which is the original main flag.

Also happened to be what David
was wearing the day we met him.

Ta-ta-da!

The main flag.

Dave was actually wearing this
same pattern, the day of the arrival.

I know. That's why I decided
to do this.

- So smart.
- I think is going to like it.

And I can't wait to see
it all its own.

[Ashley] We're gonna
make it. Oh!

Yeah.

How does it look, Chase?

- [Chase] Great.
- All right. This is done.

All right. Cool. Here they come.

- Look at that.
- Dude.

- Are we in the right place?
- Oh, man.

- Wow!
- [laughing]

Lead the way.

[woman] Oh, my God.

Teepee's done, camp is done,
we're ready.

Go! Done.

All right, cool.

[Ashley] Here they come.

-Oh, man, -[laughs]

- Look at that.
- Dude.

I like that finish up top.

[indistinct]

- Oh, man!
- Window on the back...

- Roof...
- Look at the roof.

Never have to shovel
that roof off.

Was wondering, two windows...

- Hi!
- [all] Hey!

Oh, my word!

[David] My mind is blown.

Oh, my God. This is ours?

This is great!

[Chase] Welcome back.

Are we in the right place?

We think that you're
absolutely are.

I knew it was going to look
different, but I know how.

First thing I saw
was the roof and the colors,

I love the colors and I love
the shingles on end.

I loved everything I saw
right away.

- Brought me to tears.
- So, we've been busy.

Oh, I guess so.

[Chase] Yeah, so we started
out, you know, from the ground up.

Got a jacking level. We've got
Francis in here with an excavator.

Pulled the dirt away
from the camp.

We stripped the roof,
ripped that off right away,

and started figuring out a
plan to get a new pitch up there.

You can see on the front we have
put covered porch over the front.

[David] I love that.

You know, we put a few fortifies
in there just to help support that.

- Went through, tainted all the windows, all the trim.
- That looks awesome.

Um, yeah. We wanted to
stick with the green.

Yeah.

Maybe we should head on inside.

[indistinct chatter]

[Chase] Lead the way.

[Mrs. Wilkinson laughing]

- Oh, my God!
- Look at these windows.

Did you see the kitchen?
Oh, my God.

Wow!

Unreal!

[all laughing]

- You like it?
- It's like a new place.

It is.

Kitchen was huge because
I had a little dinky stovetop

with the push buttons
that I had from the sixties.

Now I have a real stove and and
oven and I can really cook here.

I love those.

All the windows are amazing.

Oh, my God. Look, they
got a teepee out there.

[all laughing]

- [David] You kidding me? Teepee?
- Oh, my God.

We knew that you guys like a
little funky, so we were able to do

- different things.
- You hit that one on the head.

This front wall pretty much
disappeared...

You know, it was kicked out so bad,
and we found a lot of rock along that

sill right there,
so tore that out, you know,

put nice headers right across to
get more windows and, you know,

same thing. locked that,
frame that all in.

Man, how about that view
lookin' out?

[all laughing]

The whole rest of the kit
for you guys to check out.

Go around the corner. and look.

[Mrs. Wilkinson] It just looks
so much brighter in here.

[Chase] There's your
own cabinet.

- [David] Oh, my goodness.
- [Mrs Wilkinson] Oh, wow.

[Chase] So all new electoral
throughout.

All new electricals.

- Underground, right out to the fall.
- Beautiful.

- Wow.
- [Ashley] Look how nice that ladder fits there.

[David] That's cool. That's
the entrance right there.

[Mrs Wilkinson] We have
an actual, real, like bathroom.

A roof, a ceiling over the
bathroom for privacy, for a change.

That's very nice.

Oh, my goodness.

I feel like I'm going upstairs
in the barn at home.

[David] Better, it's better.

- This is... this is crazy.
- [Mrs Wilkinson] Oh, my goodness.

Wow!

- Unreal.
- Yes.

- Look at this.
- [David] Oh, my goodness.

It's so much more room than I
thought there would be up here too.

- Yeah, there is.
- You can stand right up.

[David] Windows up there, man.

With a great view of the lake.
Oh, my God, This is awesome.

We have these two
new babies now.

And the loft upstairs,

that's a perfect place
for them to play

and to have kind of
a kid space upstairs.

There was lot of confined
sleeping

without the log,
now we can spread out.

It's gonna be great to
have extra space upstairs.

No rains bother us here.

Oh, my gosh. This is the best.

- You got your gong.
- This is our living room right here.

Yeah.

Yes. So we reused the deck
boards, we had to peel it all back

to jacking level,

replace the rock,
put those back down.

[Chase] New step right across
the front.

- [David] I love that.
- You know, railings on the side.

- I love it.
- Actually reused your trim boards.

We painted your trim boards,
and it get rid of your circles.

- I'm so glad you reused that.
- Well, you said that you really loved it,

want to keep it.

[Ashley] So I spent a nice
afternoon painting it.

And it just keeps...

Then we have the set
of stairs down to the water.

- [Mrs Wilkinson] Oh, that's right.
- [David] Oh, my God. Yes.

Way less sketchy than...

Less of shindigs. on
the rock steps. Perfect.

Look at it from here,
I mean, it's just...

- Yeah.
- [David] Just absolutely awesome.

This is the best this
camps ever been.

You know, it was a dark day
in late February

when we're sitting at home
reading the paper

and my neighbor down
the road calls up

and says, "Hey, Dave, you
got a big tree on your camp."

[David] We all loved it. We
had just awesome times here.

It was not going to be
that anymore.

But after what I see, this
thing has just turned into,

- I can honestly say...
- It was a blessing in disguise.

You just need the keys.

Thank you brother.

[Chase] There you go.
Absolutely.

- Thank you so much guys.
- Enjoy it!

My daughter was born the day
after we handed the key off to camp,

so she's been waiting this
whole time with the rest of us

to see this place.

My son came two weeks early because
he couldn't miss this awesome thing too,

so they're both great. and
ready to have some fun here.

All your crew, you know,
Chase, Ashley, Ryan, Dixie,

and all those unseen faces
that worked on this

all sum along, God bless you
for the fine work that you've done.

You know, it's your knowledge,
your skills, your abilities

and your creativity That
really brought this camp

back to life for me again
and I can't thank you enough.