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[music playing]

Today is my day.

We are back on Cobbossee Lake.

Time to do my family camp, my brother's camp.

It's probably the smallest camp we've worked on yet.

Oh my God.

It's nasty.

We spent the day demoing, and that place

was nastier then we thought.

It's going to have to come down.

All those dust clouds mean there's a lot of dry rot.

I feel better and better about this every minute

we're watching it.

The outside of this camp is fabulous, it's weather-tight,

it's gorgeous.

Everything's brand new.

I think I see them.

Three, two, one, look!

Oh my god!

NARRATOR: In a place called Vacation Land...

Time to get to work.

NARRATOR:... there are thousands of cabins that have

been unchanged for decades...

Everything must go.

NARRATOR:... all over the great state of Maine.

Chase Moore 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's 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 we throw at them.

Our crew is the best at what we do.

- Nice job on this one. - Cheers.

CHASE (VOICEOVER): We're all best friends and we love it.

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Today is my day.

We are back on Cobbossee Lake.

Time to do my family camp, my brother's camp.

It's probably the smallest camp we've worked on yet,

but it's definitely on the smallest piece of property yet.

We're on the beautiful Cobbossee Lake.

You know, our home lake.

We love it here and it's about time

we got to this little shack.

ASHLEY: How'd you end up with this tiny little boat?

This camp is small and on the smallest piece of property,

so I thought we'd bring a small, stubby boat.

It's kind of short and stocky and stubby, kind

of like myself.

So the boat is small just like the camp?

CHASE: Yeah.

Hey!

Hey, you made it!

- Hey, guys. - Hey, Rhett.

Hey, Caroline. Hey, Corb.

Hey, Carter.

RYAN: I'm waving for Chase.

We are the Eldridge's, and we're in Manchester, Maine.

How did you get him to do all the work?

- I don't know. - Is this like a romantic ride?

I should be wearing a striped shirt.

RHETT: My brother and I grew up on the lake.

When my grandparents passed away, this camp came for sale

and we took the opportunity to jump on it.

All right.

Now we're super excited for you to be here.

Yeah.

See, I told you we'd make it someday, right?

Yeah.

[interposing voices]

Let's go check it out.

It definitely needs some love.

She definitely needs some love.

RYAN: She's little.

Needs all kinds of love.

CAROLINE: Teeny tiny.

CHASE: Let's hear what you guys envision.

RHETT: OK.

CAROLINE: Well, let's start with the parking.

The parking is falling down and eroding,

and it would be nice to have more than two

parking spaces, if possible.

And we know erosion, right? That's another big one.

CAROLINE: Yes. RHETT: Erosion, right.

CAROLINE: We're hoping that the parking area

might fix some of that problem.

What's most important to me is that I have a space that I can

entertain lots of people and have lots of places for people

to sleep, even if it's one room with lots of beds.

- All right. - Perfect.

CHASE: That's easy.

What do you guys want?

I would like a loft to hang out.

A loft?

Because there's not much space to hang out.

I would love, you know, windows.

But obviously you get a lot of afternoon sun,

so you do need some shade.

But it'd be nice to have a lot of natural light.

Sounds like, you know there's a lot of infrastructure

that needs to go into place.

Just, you know, deal with the parking,

to deal with the erosion, get it on a good base

to build up to, you know, make it

able to support an expansion that's

going to let more light in.

Lost space.

Sleeping space.

Bring it all in, Chase.

CHASE: Yeah, be able to use the place.

You'll work your magic.

CHASE: All right.

So now that we've got a good idea of what you're looking

for, what is the budget that we have

to work with on this project?

55,000.

Yeah.

Listen, if it goes over that, talk to him.

Right, right, right.

It's going to take a long time,

so I'm thinking at least three months.

You know, I think realistically

$55,000 will go a long way to getting this done.

It's good that you've got an open timeline

so that, you know, helps keep the budget down.

It all sounds good.

We just need the keys.

ASHLEY: All right.

CHASE: All right.

RHETT: Thank you, sir.

I told Rhett last year, the last time

I slept here last summer that I would never sleep here again

until the camp was redone.

So I think they took me pretty seriously.

RYAN: It looks smaller with nothing in it.

ASHLEY: I think it looks bigger with nothing in it.

But this is...

Oh, no.

Chase, you've been here a couple of times, right?

This place is a dump.

It's a dump.

It's a dump.

CHASE: You lived in this?

RYAN: Actually, I did live here for a little bit.

CHASE: I'm just kidding.

It's great.

No, it needs...

I mean, it serves its purpose, getting us on the water.

I mean obviously all this must go.

There's not much to it, though, is there?

It's a total gut.

Yeah, it's a total gut.

We've got to get in here and get it gutted,

get it down to the original frame,

and see what we're working with.

On the exterior of the camp, if the foundation and supports

can hold the new additions, we plan on raising the roof

and putting a new addition on the side

where the bathroom and the small deck originally were.

Family asked for a new retaining wall

to help hold back any run off from the road,

and also a loft area for extra sleeping for the kids.

RYAN: We didn't cook one meal in that kitchen in eight years.

You can never have two people in here at once.

The bathroom is just a toilet.

RYAN: I did the volume calculations.

This can go up about 14 feet in the front

and have a 10 foot ceiling in the back of the shed roof.

And there's a little more leeway there, so we could

do a different pitch, too.

So we can't open it up and make it feel better.

Part of the reason everyone's asked

like, why didn't you do your camp before, it's

because we weren't ready.

You know, this is a logistical nightmare, this camp.

The build's the easy part of this one.

We get a dumpster in here, we call the guys, gut it.

Then we got to jack it up, foundation.

That's a lot that needs to happen.

Then we reframe it.

Then we start putting it back together.

I'm way far out on this project.

Yeah. A way's away.

No, you're not. You're here.

This is your camp, you're building.

You don't get to stay away on this one.

Oh yeah, now it's my camp.

A second ago it was...

Well, no, it's not like the headquarters where you got

to stay away the entire time.

All right, let's go.

On the inside of the outdoor camp,

our plan is to have an open living

space, a bathroom, kitchen.

Downstairs, have more living space and a small bedroom.

That was a one second tour.

CHASE: You got a lot of homework to do, both of you.

ASHLEY: Yeah. RYAN: He's talking to you.

CHASE: Both of you. - Wait.

I'll start making calls.

All right, sounds good.

All three of us.

You need to get a dumpster so I can throw you in it.

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RYAN: Great day today.

My buddy Harry is coming over.

They got four huge trees they got to take down.

They need a landing zone.

Normally they have a huge zone.

They have 8 square feet.

Had to get flaggers in there, but he's doing us a huge favor

even taking this project.

We had to do a huge retainer wall

and backfill it before we could even have

a spot to put materials in.

Next Monday when we have the dumpster there,

we're going to have to get there early, two guys early there,

to help back the dumpster in.

There's no way to know.

If not, we're gonna have to put them down

the road to a staging area.

So it just adds more money and more money.

This might be the smallest camp we've ever done,

but it's not nearly the smallest budget.

CHASE: Biggest crew for the smallest cabin.

DIXIE: I know, it's great.

It won't take long.

CHASE: We got an army.

I know.

This place is getting a major overhaul.

Camp's being lifted up, new foundation

underneath, new retaining walls across the whole thing.

So our part of the job today is just to get it gutted,

stripped back so we see what we're working with.

One of the smaller camps we're doing,

but it's definitely one of the worst yet.

So take it apart like it was put together?

So the last thing that went on was the base molding.

Sparklers.

One of these would just do the job for us.

It smelled so horrible in there.

Yeah.

I got a bad feeling about this ceiling.

Oh my gosh.

Nasty.

I just got to cut the toilet pipe.

Almost there.

I'm appalled that Ryan would live in such squalor.

RYAN: Oh, gross.

CHASE: That's a lot of mouse pee.

RYAN: So disgusting.

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Plumbing should be cut.

Yuck.

CHASE: Yuck is right.

Doug's on another job at the moment.

But I guess it all goes downhill when it's the family camp.

We're at the family camp on a Monday.

Did you cut that steam pipe underneath?

Yeah.

So I can cut it in here?

Yeah.

RYAN: This place is disgusting.

The weather's disgusting.

But everybody's attitude is awesome,

so what more can you ask for?

This is exciting.

Squalor, I tell you.

Squalor.

JEDI: See how many squirrels have been living?

They were in the ceilings, the walls, the floors, the windows,

the cabinets, the couches.

Squirrels made their way underneath the kitchen sink,

but they kept the dishes clean, so that was a good thing.

This is one of the grosser camps I've seen in a long time.

My eyes!

Don't tilt it towards you too much.

It's a real crappy job.

Nasty.

Ash, Chase told me to bring this to you.

I'm all set.

I don't want anything that Chase has to give me.

Bring it right back to Chase. - No, it's fine.

Nope, nope, nope.

Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, no!

Rhett, you're my friend!

We knew the camp was small.

We didn't know the camp was tiny and infested.

ASHLEY: Don't kill him.

CHASE: Oh, there he is.

You little bugger, get out of here.

Get out of here! - Kill it!

ASHLEY: Oh, let me see him.

JEDI: Don't run up my boot, little buddy.

DIXIE: Go, get out of here! ASHLEY: I want to see him.

DIXIE: It is in really bad shape.

It's got a lot of mice, squirrels, all kinds of stuff.

So we'll get it torn apart and see how we

can put it all back together.

RYAN: Normally we just go in and we see how it's built and go

with the cards we're played.

You know, here we have a plan.

So the way the camp's designed, Chase and I

decided we're going to tear this hole end off,

it's going to come up to a full foundation.

So by taking this addition off, we're

going to be able to square it up better and start fresh.

ASHLEY: Tear it right down to the ground.

Oh, yeah.

Nice swing, buddy.

RYAN: That was quick.

Boom.

All kinds of creepy crawlies coming out of this place.

CHASE: This place just gets worse and worse.

DIXIE: Is that just rot, or?

That's either dry rot or powderpost.

Powderpost beetles.

CHASE: We ran into just about everything.

Carpenter ants, powderpost beetles, mice, squirrels,

rot, nasty insulation.

This place has everything you don't want.

I'm starting to think that we may have

to tear this whole place down.

We'll have the building inspector come out

and take a look at it, but it's looking more and more like it's

going to need to come down.

JEDI: It's like most places we go to, these camp owners,

they're not really demoing anything beforehand.

They're just adding on, covering it up, covering it up.

It just traps all that nastiness in over the years.

Got to get it out, got to strip it down to bare bones.

Oh, this is so heavy, Dixie.

I'm so strong, honey.

Roar!

Pick it up.

You're supposed to be pretending with me.

You're rot strong.

I know.

She can bench press at least 16 ounces.

We've got to figure out who's going

to have to call the homeowner and say

the budget is going to be tripled,

because this thing's got to come down.

You're nasty, you're nasty, you're nasty, you're nasty,

I'm nasty.

You're all nasty.

[music playing]

This place is horrible.

So this is one of the old boards

that I pulled off the Eldridge Camp.

And cribbage is huge in our family,

and I know that the Eldridge boys

love, love, love to play cribbage,

especially with their grampy.

So cribbage is a pretty really popular, popular game,

and I actually had somebody make this one for me.

So this cribbage board, you know, you take the pegs

and you just, you know, go around the board

and then you win.

So a cribbage board is technically a scoring

board for a card game.

So what I did was I had a template made up.

So I took the old board from Eldridge Camp

and I thought it would be really cool if I

made a cribbage board for them.

What I'm going to do next is I'm going

to mark each and every one of these holes out with a pencil.

And then I will come in and drill each and e very hole out.

Ryan and I have a running game of cribbage.

I'm not even sure where we're at.

And then I also have a running game with a friend of mine,

and we left our score on the beams,

but Ryan didn't want us to.

So we did it in a hidden place and he

still hasn't found it yet.

RYAN: I heard that.

Heard what?

Our all time score?

RYAN: Yeah.

Are you here to help me?

Hey, my brother's coming over for a minute.

Your brother's coming?

This is for their camp. - OK.

I'm going to make it a cribbage board.

Oh, cool.

Why's Rhett coming here?

That camp's pretty much going to come down.

It's not worth...

Come down?

It's so bad.

It's not worth saving it.

It was really bad, like, to come down to the ground?

Yeah.

Better ask him if he has any money.

Good luck with that.

I do not want to be part of this conversation.

Tell him I'm not home.

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RYAN: We're in the second week at my brother's camp.

I just got off on with Chase and we came to the conclusion

that the place has to come down.

It's going to make the best sense of put on a foundation

and then go from there.

There's nothing more to say.

Ash is inside doing some special projects.

My brother's on his way out right now to go over it,

so I'm in the shed waiting for him.

Brother, what's up? - Hey, what's up, buddy?

How's it going? - Nice to see you.

Nice to see you.

What's up?

Oh, you know.

Just thought I'd stop and say hi.

I know you told me to come out, you had some news on the camp.

Spent a day demoing, and that place

was nastier than we thought.

Which is not surprising.

The worst camp we ever demoed.

So we talked to the town, talked to Chase,

you know, ran some numbers.

And we're... it's going to have to come down.

What was left wasn't worth jacking up

to be honest with you, spending that money, so.

We'll put a new camp on a new foundation and go from there.

RHETT: You know, obviously that affects the budget.

So is there going to be more money

or does that mean we're going to do less?

RYAN: I don't think we need to ask for more money.

I think I'm going to call in a bunch of favors.

We have some cool ideas.

You'll be happy.

RHETT: All right, that works.

Well, if you don't need any more money, I'm out of here.

RYAN: All right.

I'll talk to you later, bud.

See you, bud.

The whole property is going to get transformed.

It's one of the hardest pieces of property

we've ever worked on. There's no room.

Things are going to take longer.

But we can transform that whole lot

into something that's usable, not just indoor and outdoor,

and for parking for people to enjoy the lake as well.

We got permission to take the camp down.

It has to go exactly where it is.

So we have to triangulate each point off two known points.

When those measurements come in, we know that's where

the corner has got to go.

We have 60 inches right there.

It's actually a little bit below the floor,

but 60 inches plus the 36 we're allowed to go

will give us a full basement.

CHASE: Awesome.

We're good, buddy.

Code enforcement offices said we have

permission to tear it down.

It has to go right where it is.

We're going to keep the same footprint

and we can go a bit more volume up.

So it makes more sense to tear it down.

It's kind of bittersweet.

I feel better about this already,

because all those dust clouds mean there's a lot of dry rot.

All those big beams were rotting,

so the more dust clouds kind of there

indicates that we would have had a lot more sill work to do.

So I feel better and better about this every minute

we're watching it.

Now the camp has been torn down, next step

is to get the excavator in here and prep for the retaining

wall and the foundation.

[music playing]

I knew from the beginning I was going

to have to call in some favors to get around that budget

on my brother's camp.

Haley Concrete offer to help us with the concrete,

and Ready Rock offered to help us with the retaining wall.

But I had to get my hands dirty and come

visit the guys up here.

So this is where the whole process starts?

This is where it starts right here.

RYAN: And it starts with concrete?

WAYNE: That's right.

RYAN: It's going to from that to a beautiful block.

WAYNE: That's right.

So by the end of the day, we're

going to have made 30 yards of concrete and over 140

blocks for this project.

I was having so much fun I decided

to stick around the rest of the day and do some more work.

I did everything today.

I hauled concrete, formed blocks, smoothed concrete out.

I even pushed buttons to get wet concrete into a concrete truck

and off to a job site.

Have a good day, bud.

Thank you very much.

I appreciate it.

Overall, I really learned a lot today, met some great people,

and I'm going to come home with a new retaining

wall for my brother's camp.

CHASE: So today we are at the Eldridge Camp.

Still working on the foundation.

Today they are doing everything to get ready to pour the floor.

We had hoped to, you know, get in here

and get this camp going right away,

but the foundation is a lot more complicated.

Because it's so close to the road,

once you start pouring the cement it's go, go, go.

And I mean, you just got to work hard,

push hard, get it secreted across,

leveled out nice and smooth.

I think the timeline on this camp

has definitely been pushed back.

You know, we'll get in here as soon as we can

but, you know, it was the right decision.

It will save money in the long run,

but now we're really starting from the ground up.

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RYAN: It's the start of week three at the Eldridge Camp

and we had a busy, busy weekend.

Cory is now ready to start working

on the back retaining wall, so he asked

that we cap this foundation.

So I had a group of guys who worked all weekend

to get this thing done.

Things are really starting to take shape around here.

All the earth works around the lakeside is done.

Costing, you know, the family more money

to put the big retaining wall in.

We love Cobbossee Lake.

It's my most favorite lake and I'm

really concerned about all the salt and road sand going there.

So we put a lot of time and effort

to find the best solution there.

In the long run it's going to be less materials in the lake

and it's going to be a heck of a lot easier cleaning this yard.

We got this all done, ready to go.

First floor system's ready for the second story.

You come around here, Cory is now

ready to start working on the back retaining wall

so we have a place to park and a place

we can put our materials on.

These are the ready rocks that I helped make

up at the concrete factory.

They look really cool.

Right now they treated them.

That will lighten up.

You can see the colors will come through,

but they do treat them with a spray so they don't rust

or rot or anything like that.

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Morning, guys.

DIXIE: Morning, Ryan.

Wall's done.

Looks good, huh?

So our friends at Ready Scapes and Fowler's Construction

finished the wall this past week.

Guys are putting together the firepit.

It's week five.

We're kind of over timeline and running out of good weather,

so we've got to get framed as fast as we can.

So it's a big week here.

Hopefully this thing's small, we'll frame up quick,

and we can catch up.

DIXIE: Now that we've got a new foundation and this new

build, we are doing wraparound floor to ceiling windows,

new siding, also an open loft area upstairs for the kids,

with a bedroom downstairs and open up doors

that walk out onto the water.

- What's wrong with that? - Nothing.

What's wrong with that?

What's wrong with that?

RYAN: You're only going to have a window in the bathroom.

- OK. - Hey, what's going on, bud?

Nice fire pit.

You like that? CHASE: Yeah.

Wish it was a little closer.

Keep us a little warmer.

RYAN: I was going over your plans.

That's the lake right there.

That is my handwriting, yeah.

That is my handwriting.

Look, he doesn't even remember.

CHASE: Today we are going to focus on getting

the exterior walls framed up.

We know the window sizes, we know the layout,

we know the wall height.

So we just need to start cutting studs and put it together.

This has been a tough job, you know.

More than half the time has been spent on earth

work and then half the budget.

Probably more than half the budget.

Oh, boy.

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Nope, not today.

So I was coming over to help put up some of these walls

with them, and I pulled in and it's pouring rain.

I'm not prepared for rain.

I got the dogs.

Think I'm going to take the day to go get inspired.

You want to take the day off?

Do you?

Oh, we'll take the day off.

Sounds like Gus wants to take the day off.

We're not going to see Ashley.

[bark]

What?

You can say with your dad if you want, but I'm out of here.

It's too wet.

RYAN: That's all we're going to see of Ashley today.

Gus wants to take the day off.

I don't blame him.

I'm hoping it's going to be a short day.

This is miserable.

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We've been here half a morning and

the guys have got two walls up.

I wasn't so nervous when I was getting the construction done

in that time, but definitely worried about not

eating up all the budget.

So, you know, the next three weeks we can definitely

get this place weather tight.

Doors, windows, roof.

Have it looking great, you know.

The inside will have to maybe take a little bit longer time.

But, you know, time you can make up for.

Because it's only a 21 by 20 gambit.

Guys ready?

Ready, ready.

OK.

Oh, somebody nailed it to the floor.

Oh.

I definitely did.

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CHASE: We're on week five at the Eldridge Camp.

There's definitely a higher level

of attention paid to detail.

RYAN: Three walls.

Just like that, we're back on schedule, back on the budget.

This camp is definitely not going to be done under budget.

Oh, somebody nailed it to the floor.

I did.

Oh.

I definitely did.

There we go.

Looking good.

Nailed it!

Cuckoo cachoo.

I left for 10 seconds, there's a back wall.

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Hey look, half a day, we're back on schedule, right?

We knew it was going to be like that.

We knew excavation was going to take half the timeline

and more than half the budget.

Yeah.

All right, let's get out of the rain.

Looks good.

Dry them out.

Dry them out.

My underwear is wet.

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RYAN: This week started with a rain storm

but we got a lot done yesterday, and there's a snowstorm

coming at the end of the week.

Welcome to late fall in Maine.

Sunny today, rainy yesterday, snow on Friday.

We got a maze.

We're never gonna get out of this maze.

Never get out of this maze.

We are cruising through week five.

Neil and Jake are putting up sheeting boards,

and it's starting to look like something.

You really need a man with a slow hand and a smooth touch

to do that.

Dixie and I are working on getting

the second story loft together.

We have some brackets I bought off a friend down the road.

They're a little bit smaller than the end of the wood,

so we just, you know, scarf them out a little bit,

get everything nice and flush.

By tomorrow, we'll have the second story loft in

and we'll be putting a ridge bowl up before you know it.

You save a lot of money with this rough cut lumber.

So it's not perfect, so you know we have a difference here.

So we will have to go through with our power planers.

That's what they call those now.

And, you know, we'll just kind of knock some of the stuff off.

So we'll go through just make sure these are

all... not necessarily perfect. Just close.

Because you don't really see them.

But that right there might roll.

And again, it really depends on how

it lands, but, you know, rough cut saves money,

but you just got to...

There's a couple of things you've got to check.

I like the look.

I like the chunky look.

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Neil and Jake are sheathing.

Dixie and I got the [inaudible] beam

in that's going to carry the second story

loft, which is pretty small.

And now we're just putting in the floor system to that.

We love to use two by six tongue and groove

boards for our loft system.

It really gives you that great exposure

and shows you the structure above.

It doubles as your finished ceiling

and your finished floor on the loft, so it saves us money.

Four by six rough cut rafters, two by six tongue and groove,

flooring and sheathing done.

I honestly have lost track of time.

We're about the end of the second full week of having

crews working, but it's probably the seventh or eighth

week of having the job going.

We have two weeks left to the finish

and we're looking pretty good.

Because the camp is so small, we just took the liberty to do

a really cool trim detail.

One of my biggest pet peeves is small overhangs on houses,

so we did a nice big overhangs.

We kind of did a modern look with a big fascia

and a big soffit, and it looks so awesome.

The roof is all black with black trim

and it's got a natural siding on it.

It's going to pop.

I'm really excited about this camp

and I think we've all put a little bit of extra time

and effort and love into it, and it's really showing already.

We got to get floors in, we got to get a bathroom in,

we got to get plumbing in.

We got to get all the windows in.

So it's going to be a race.

Today is a big day here.

The last stretch of this unbelievable record

setting weather, and we're going to try to get as much siding

on as we can today.

DIXIE: Now that we have the framing in,

the next step is to put the pine on the walls.

We have a bunch of pine outside.

So pretty much we just have to put a couple of nailers in

and we should be good to go.

Can't wait for them to install that staircase.

All right, it looks great.

Kyle came in on Saturday, stained the floor for us.

I have a nice metal frame, so I'm going to take the chair up

to create a nice seat for it.

Yeah, I'm going to go talk to my team and see how they're doing,

and I'm excited.

It's looking good.

We're really close, but we're also really far away.

Today I'm meeting with Kathleen.

She's done canvas work for us in the past,

and so I think she's the perfect person to help

me out with this custom chair.

Oh, well, hi.

KATHLEEN: Hello, there.

How's it going?

I'm doing all right.

How are you doing today?

I'm well.

It's good to see you.

Yeah, you too.

The chair's right back here.

I know we spoke on the phone, but I

don't know if you can quite picture

what I was talking about.

Oh.

Had to bring the truck today.

Yeah, so this is the frame.

Looking to have some canvas put to kind of like sling down

like that so I can put some cushions in it.

All right, kind of like a little hammock.

Kind of like a little hammock.

Ryan spent most of the budget on all the groundwork,

so I really had to get creative.

Let's see what you... Oh, this is cool.

Thank you.

ASHLEY: They do pontoon boats, they do sea covers,

they do all kinds of stuff.

I'm not a seamstress.

I definitely can't sew canvas, so I know that these guys are

going to do an excellent job.

They're the people to call.

So this is what I got set up.

So we got some rope hanging out here

and it attaches to different loop points,

and we also have an anchor point right here.

ASHLEY: This is so neat.

KATHLEEN: And then we have two bolsters,

kind of like it has like cushions in it

so you can sit down and your legs won't chafe

and you won't bump your head on the back.

And then possibly, depending on how it sits,

we could also have some anchor points in the back.

No, I think it's cool.

And also this might be able to go outside, too, huh?

Yes.

If we use the right canvas, it can be outside, too.

Yeah, I never thought about that.

Caroline is always surrounded by all kinds of boys.

Eldridge boys are chaotic.

I know firsthand.

I guess I'll just leave the frame with you,

and then give me a call when it's done.

I'm excited to see the final product.

Yes. It's going to be fun to make it.

Thank you so much. - Awesome.

Well, thank you very much. I appreciate it.

- Have a great day. - Yeah, you too.

Bye.

I wanted to do something custom, a special piece for her

where she can just sit, relax, and enjoy the new space.

CHASE: It's a windy, chilly fall day in Manchester

and we are finishing up the Eldridge Camp.

Shouldn't you be going?

This is a family camp.

We kicked Lance out, we kicked Dixie out, we kicked Chase out,

we kicked me out.

JEDI: You kicked every other homeowner out.

Because he's gone so far over budget,

he has to work for free.

Everybody's looking for a reason to get Ryan off the job.

I think his brother's the owner of this camp.

[music playing]

Best fall day in Manchester, and we are

finishing up the Eldridge Camp.

This camp is just so much better than from where it started.

We ended up having to tear it down to the ground

and now, I mean, everything is brand new.

What's not to like?

A lot of these camps don't have wells.

You pull off the lake.

Since we put a full foundation on it,

we just had to put a sleeve in where

our one-inch pipe comes out of.

So I'm just going to sleeve this and we'll

pull our pipe down through.

And then you just bring out the lake in the spray,

pull it back in in the fall.

We are just building a temporary deck.

It's going to be a free floating deck, so we're

temporarily suspending it.

We're going to put some legs down onto our pucks

and our rocks and deck it over.

Just will be a nice, easy access for the camp.

CHASE: So everything else in this camp

is pretty much brand new, so I need

to put something used in here.

So I had an old stainless steel sink that actually came

out of my grandparents' house.

I just need to build a base for it to set up the kitchen.

I know that budget is extremely tight on this camp.

We've stretched the material as far as we could.

We definitely pulled from materials at my place

as much as we could.

Ryan definitely kicked in some of his own private money

to make this happen.

RYAN: We are over budget and everything else

has come out of my pocket and we haven't

even really got to the inside.

We're not out of time, but we are out of money.

The outside of this camp is fabulous, it's weather tight,

it's gorgeous.

It's got tens of thousands of dollars of windows.

Everything's brand new.

When we go inside, things are going to slow down.

At this point, we are over our budget,

so we've got to get this done as efficiently as possible.

And if that involves reusing old sink tops and old scraps

to build the sink base, that's what they get.

And they're going to love it.

I can't win with this fire today.

Oh, it looks nice.

I like it.

And now once I get the pegs in it, the cards,

and write Eldridge and kind of sand it down a little,

clean it up a little, it's going to be great.

I can't wait.

This is the only remaining board from the original camp.

Whoa, let me get out.

Yep.

RYAN: Look at that.

DIXIE: Perfect.

ASHLEY: Oh, wow.

DIXIE: Lock it in.

OK, you hold on.

While we were in Gray last spring,

couple came down and said, listen,

we have a spiral staircase out there free.

One of you should take it.

Never turn down a free spiral staircase.

This is all free.

I knew the homeowner, so I could stretch as far as I could.

We are there.

Ashley and I probably threw another 15,000 to 20,000

towards this, but we use this camp just as much as they do,

so it's money well spent.

It wasn't tall enough for these measurements,

so I'm just building a platform.

I got 14 inches I got to make up from this point, which

represents the last step, to the concrete.

[music playing]

ASHLEY: I need to go get a new broom.

Oh, won't even sweep up a leaf.

Probably the worst broom I've ever seen in my life.

All right, Chase.

I'm going to go get my design team and a new broom.

That's it for you.

ASHLEY: That's not it for me.

That's it for me today, for sure.

Not leaving yet.

I will not be cleaning up that pile.

I already swept that part.

OK, I'm going to sweep my way right out the door.

We have to come in, we need to put some curtains up,

and we need to decorate the whole place.

Money is really tight, so I'm pulling from wherever I can.

It looks great.

You didn't finish your job.

I need a new broom, man.

Adios.

Bye, Ashley.

Bye, Chase.

Great job, Ashley.

Great job, Chase.

Nice job, Ashley.

Nice job, Chase.

[music playing]

The last 24 hours, my team and I came in,

moved in all the furniture, got it looking absolutely perfect.

And we have a bedroom downstairs and a sitting

area, a nice dining area.

We have a nice sitting area upstairs and then

extra sleeping space in the loft.

So I have my cribbage board, I have some family

pictures I need to hang up.

After I put up those pictures, we're ready to go.

I'm excited.

I'll wait over here.

All right, you just have to stay there.

I'm going to figure out how to fix that picture.

I'll just put a little thing to hang it up.

I was able to finish up the cribbage board.

I painted Eldridge on it and got some nice little pegs for it.

The chair that I had custom-made for Caroline,

I think it fits in perfect.

How do you like my new chair?

Love it.

- It's really cool, isn't it? - It is.

- It's comfy. - Yeah.

Like you're sitting on a boat.

ASHLEY: So our original plan was to bring Caroline and Rhett

and the boys up by boat, but they just recently lowered

the lake levels, so now Ryan's going to come over

and he is going to keep an eye on them

and bring them through the woods.

I think I see them.

There they are.

Hi!

CHASE: Want to calm down?

Ryan, get them over here.

CHASE: Three, two, one, look.

Oh my gosh!

CORBIN: Look at all the windows!

Get over here.

CAROLINE: Oh my god.

RHETT: Wow.

CAROLINE: Wow.

ASHLEY: Judging by your reaction, I think you like it?

I thought the camp was incredible when I first saw it.

I couldn't believe my eyes.

It was brand new.

It wasn't the same camp at all.

We've been waiting too long for you guys to get back.

CAROLINE: Oh my gosh, look at the retaining wall.

Oh my gosh.

Holy moly.

That is beautiful.

CAROLINE: Oh my gosh, what a difference.

This is amazing.

And look how you enter the camp from the driveway.

That is so cool.

Pretty crazy, huh?

RHETT: I love the colors, too, like they're natural and...

CAROLINE: And the fireplace.

Look at the fireplace!

So... this place was gross.

Yeah, I heard it was the worst ever.

CHASE: We tore into it and we found just about everything

wrong you could possibly find, so it

ended coming completely down.

Yeah, so brand new foundation, brand new retaining wall,

brand new camp.

[music playing]

So it's a naturally stained eastern white pine clapboard,

rough cut.

Dark trim, white windows.

The windows have glass.

RHETT: It's so open.

I love all the windows.

ASHLEY: Oh, you just wait.

RHETT: The windows are like amazing.

You guys, go check out the parking lot.

CORBIN: Sweet. CAROLINE: Awesome.

Cool little grassy area.

Yeah.

Look how flat it is, even.

RHETT: What a view.

CAROLINE: Oh my gosh.

The most exciting thing about the parking for me

is that it's going to prevent the erosion

from the sand and the winter.

The sand trucks would dump the sand on the road

and it would all end up down here

and eventually in the water.

It'll be nice that it keeps that out of the lake.

You know, we'd have basically two spots up there

and people were parking along the side of the road,

so it's a little dangerous.

This will be a little more comfortable and less stress.

All right, you guys.

I can't wait for you to see it.

RHETT: Oh my...

CAROLINE: Oh my goodness!

RHETT: Wow!

CAROLINE: Wow.

Oh, my... there's a kitchen!

CORBIN: We actually have a working bathroom?

Oh my god.

CORBIN: And windows!

CAROLINE: Wow.

I like that cribbage board.

ASHLEY: I made that cribbage board for you.

It's the only remaining piece of wood from the original camp.

CORBIN: Nice job, Ashley!

I can beat everybody!

I love the stained floors and...

ASHLEY: Yeah.

RHETT: I love that color.

And look from here.

It's like all you can see is water.

ASHLEY: It's cool, isn't it?

RHETT: It's beautiful.

CAROLINE: Oh, look at the pictures.

The old camp was horrible.

There was no place to sleep, there was no place to hang out,

there was no place to cook.

Everything was just very small and dingy and dark and smelly,

and this place is just so airy and light.

I will definitely be spending the night here.

Yeah.

So really open living space up here,

big windows facing the water.

Kitchen area, bathroom area.

We were able to squeak a little extra headroom in.

We got a loft space over here.

We got a ladder that, you know, when you need it.

RYAN: Go check it out, guys.

I'll check it out.

Check it out.

RHETT: Is there enough room for all of us?

CARTER: Oh, yeah.

CORBIN: I did not expect it to be like a super big loft space.

I was pretty happy to see that you could fit a good sized bed

up in that loft.

RHETT: Wow, this is cool.

Now there's plenty of space for sleepovers

for our family and your family.

RHETT: Absolutely.

[music playing]

ASHLEY: This chair I had designed for Caroline.

I designed this for you because I

know that you like to just sit and read in the sun,

or, you know, with a book.

CAROLINE: These windows are perfect for the sun.

Try it out.

It's comfortable.

I just love the look of it.

Oh, yes.

Right?

I love the chair.

Her visions coming to light are something special.

I'm going to stay here for the night, boys.

You guys can go home.

All right, guys, while mom's relaxing,

let's go check out the basement.

OK.

Look at this, dude.

I picked that up on the side of the road for free.

RHETT: This?

RYAN: At another job site there was a family

at the end of the street like, we have a spiral staircase,

you want it?

It's been sitting out front with a free sign.

RHETT: This is great.

I really like the spiral staircase.

It was a great use of space, and yeah, it's great.

ASHLEY: Look at the space.

CAROLINE: This is amazing.

Thought so.

I'm speechless, cause I can't even

believe how much space this is.

Look at the door.

I love the door.

RHETT: Wow, this is cool.

CORBIN: Little private sleeping area?

Yeah.

CAROLINE: Wow.

This is going to be my room.

No, it's mine.

RHETT: I'm just amazed at what they were able to do

and how much they were able to get for us in the camp

in just such a small space.

Here's your camp.

We're giving it back to you...

Well, we had 55,000 originally.

We're about at 65 and I think you wanted it in 12 weeks,

so two for two.

Thank god it was you guys.

Definitely worth the wait.

And we do have keys for you.

Definitely worth the wait.

Thank you guys so much.

Yeah, you're welcome.

Yeah, we love it.

We're going to have a good time here.

- Awesome. - Thank you.

Thank you.

Love you.

RHETT: Thank you to all the Cabin Masters

for what they've done.

You know, taken our nasty camp and made it

into this beautiful place that we can all get together

and spend time together.