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ASHLEY: This is the end of the road.

CHASE: We are headed to meet an author.

ASHLEY: Let me guess. Horror?

CHASE: Horror and fiction.

[laughter]

ASHLEY: Let's go see this house of horror.

CHASE: "Accidental Evil," Ike Hamill.

[screams] I hate you.

I hate you!

There's a lot of underground stuff.

There's a lot of power underground.

It will be a little like a treasure hunt.

Oh, is it under that platform?

Heavy rains from the South.

A big tree just fell on the other side of the property.

And if we don't get out of here now,

there's a chance we can be stuck here with no power.

CHASE: Before, this cabin didn't have a bathroom.

But now this camp will have one of the nicer bathrooms

we've ever done.

That is crazy.

[laughter]

NARRATOR: In a place called Vacationland...

CHASE: 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.

All right!

NARRATOR: Chase Morrill, and his family of Mainers,

renovate, restore, and save these historic structures.

Are we in the right place?

CHASE (VOICEOVER): 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 jobs we throw 'em.

Nice!

- Wow! - What?

CHASE (VOICEOVER): 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.

[ominous music]

ASHLEY: This is the end of the road.

CHASE: For the van.

This is crazy.

ASHLEY: For the van?

CHASE: Yeah.

Keep out.

ASHLEY: Looks like this is far as we're going.

RYAN: [laughs] Honey, I got your lanterns.

Fire 'em up.

Put Ashley in the middle?

Oh, this is a first.

Chase said he was gonna pick us up at night.

So we figured we'd be out at the bars having some beers,

having a good old time. CHASE: Ladies first.

ASHLEY: What's going on? Can you tell... tell us this?

But nope, we're tromping through the woods

to a new cabin.

What is wrong with you?

Chase, we're in the middle...

Middle of summer.

Longest days of the year.

Yeah, longest days of the year.

And you have us here in the middle of the night.

CHASE: We are headed to meet Ike Hamill.

He comes here to write.

He's an author.

What does he write? Let me guess.

Horror?

CHASE: Horror and fiction.

[laughter]

I'm not a fan of the dark.

I'm not a fan of walking down dirt roads in the dark,

especially with these two.

She doesn't even like sleeping in the dark.

[laughter]

She needs a nightlight on.

CHASE: His father owned it.

His father's in poor health, but Ike comes here a lot to write.

He gets a lot of inspiration from where he writes, so...

RYAN: [laughs] CHASE:... I figured...

ASHLEY: I can see that.

CHASE:... it'd really set the mood for the camp.

But I can see how this would be...

Creepy? Yeah.

...Inspirational.

If you'd scream, nobody would hear you.

Yeah.

This is how all horror movies start,

just exactly what the three of us are doing.

[laughter]

- Oh, there's the camp. - Yeah, you're right.

ASHLEY: Oh, my gosh. How's it going?

Hey, there. Hey, guys.

RYAN: Hey, how's it going?

Hey there.

My name is Ike Hamill, and this is my family's

camp in Mount Vernon, Maine.

Oh, what is that?

Is that a wolf or a dog?

[laughter]

IKE: That's Finn.

ASHLEY: Hi.

You'll protect us.

IKE: Go see 'em, Finn. - Hi, Finn.

Hi.

- Go see 'em, Finn. - What's up, buddy?

Heel. CHASE: Oh, my god.

He would have scared you if there wasn't any lanterns.

What a cool camp.

- Yeah, thanks. - Yeah.

We show up in the middle of the night to get

a really good look at it, huh?

It's a lot of fun that Chase brought

everybody here at night, where you can see

the creepy side of the camp.

Because in the daytime you would never believe that, you know,

a place like this could have this,

you know, kind of ominous feeling to it.

So I'm glad everybody gets to experience that for themselves,

and really see what I see in the place

when I sit down to write here.

How do you write?

Do you just write with pen and paper or...

I usually use a laptop.

I like to look out over at the... at the water.

So I sit in what's now a bedroom.

But, you know, it'd be better if it

had the... floor to ceiling views would be awesome in there.

You never know what's at the end of a dirt road in Maine.

It could be anything.

That's one of the reasons why Stephen King's books are so

popular, and one of the reasons why I'm so inspired to write

about Maine, is that Maine is full of mystery

that just doesn't seem to belong anywhere else.

The feelings that I try to capture,

the nighttime creepy feelings, that's not a feeling

that my family shares. [upbeat music]

You know, they think of this place is just a... a beautiful,

wonderful place to come out and enjoy

everything Maine has to offer.

I like it when it's raining.

I like it at nighttime.

And I like to even drop in here in the snow sometimes.

This camp, my dad bought about 25 years ago.

And he bought it because his parents lived up the road,

and he wanted to be able to take care of them.

He initially planed to, like, fix it

up so he could live here three seasons... have,

like, a three season camp.

But, you know, stuff gets in the way.

And now he's recovering at my house from surgery,

and we've told him... You know, he's trying

to recover his ability to walk.

And we've said, you know, we're going to fix up the camp

for him so that he'll have a...

Oh, awesome.

Eventually, you know, finally see his dream of...

Yeah.

...Of being able to live here.

So I guess what would it be you're looking to have done?

We'd like to expand it.

The property already has septic and water,

but it's not hooked up to the camp.

CHASE: Oh, wow.

So we'd like to get a kitchen and a bathroom,

which would be great.

CHASE: I see you've got a few monstrous pines

leaning over the... IKE: Big old pine trees.

CHASE: [laughs]

Big old pine trees.

Lost one a couple of years ago that took out the roof.

But we... ASHLEY: Oh, really?

IKE:... we rebuilt after that. Yup.

There's a lot of natural stone around the property,

so it'd be cool if you guys could do something with that.

RYAN: Yeah. How big is the camp?

I think it's 320 square feet right now.

Yeah.

We'd like to... we'd like to double that, if we could.

And get it more accessible for your father?

That would be perfect if we could.

Yeah.

So he can actually come out here.

And do you have an amount in mind that you'd want to...

Yeah.

We've got about $50,000 we could put to this.

Yeah. - OK.

Realistically, it's probably about

eight weeks worth of work. IKE: OK.

Sure.

We could live with that, for sure.

CHASE: Yeah. - So I've got the keys.

Wonderful.

Awesome.

All right.

My dad watches the show constantly.

And having this camp turned into the dream camp

that he always dreamed of, it's right now his goal

of regaining his strength.

There was a lot of dark moments where he was,

you know, in recovery and he was trying to, you know,

find a reason to dig deep and endure the pain

and get back on his feet.

And one of the big motivators recently

has been thinking about this camp getting redone,

and turning it into the... the place that he always wanted.

ASHLEY: Let's go see this house of horror.

RYAN: House of horror.

[laughs] It's not that scary yet.

ASHLEY: Hey, look.

That's a cute... Look at this light.

RYAN: "Accidental Evil."

Ike Hamill.

I like that.

Ooh.

ASHLEY: It's small.

CHASE: This doesn't seem horror-ish to me.

RYAN: Well... - Yeah.

If you shut the lights off and listened to everything

outside it would be horror-ish.

So that originally it was supposed

to be a screened in porch and then they turned

it into the master bedroom.

So, like they were saying, they would

love an addition off the side to get

the master bedroom over there.

So one bedroom, but bring the screen porch back.

Yes.

I don't think... I don't think they ever had a screen porch.

ASHLEY: Let's check this room out.

RYAN: So double the size.

Oh, it's nice out here.

Imagine if...

[chainsaw sounds]

[laughter]

Why did you did that?

- I didn't do that. - You did.

Don't lie to me.

I didn't do that.

How would we have done that?

One of you did that.

RYAN: I swear to God I didn't do that.

ASHLEY: Yes, you did.

Ash, I swear on my life I didn't do that.

I think that boombox must be connected to the lightswitch

or something. - I'm over this.

Don't! [screams]

OK, that's a sign. Let's go.

[laughter]

I'm out of here.

On the inside of the camp we're

going to rearrange it so that we've got a new master bedroom

in the addition, a new large bathroom,

and we're going to take the existing bedroom space

and turn that into screened in porch overlooking the stream.

I've seen enough. Seen enough.

Seen enough.

CHASE (VOICEOVER): On the outside of the camp we

are going to double the size.

We're going to put in a new addition.

We're going to take down some of these trees that are

leaning too close to the camp.

We're going to connect up the septic.

We're going to connect up the well.

And, you know, that will probably

involve new windows, a new roof, and possibly new siding.

ASHLEY: I've seen enough for now.

We can come back in the daytime when it makes sense, when

most normal people do this. RYAN: No.

Chase didn't tell you? We have to do this one at night.

[upbeat music]

CHASE: We are at the Hamill camp today.

Good to show up with the guys today in the daylight,

see what's going on with the camp.

RYAN: Awesome.

Way... way more inviting during the day, isn't it?

CHASE: Camp during the day is way less spooky.

There are some good sized pines.

But other than that, there's nothing

too scary about the place.

So what are we doing to this one?

RYAN: Try to stay alive, Dixie!

CHASE: It's pretty small.

It's a pretty easy demo day, but kind of

get an idea of what's going on, get it cleaned out,

and make a plan.

Oh, it smells good and clean.

It is.

Oh, man.

No mouse poop or pee.

ASHLEY: In know.

This is kind of a nice one. - Mike?

Yeah. That place was disgusting.

- Real nice. - This is refreshing.

I was nervous coming out that the building would be scary,

we were missing stuff.

Place is in great shape.

Place is tiny.

The hardest part about this job will

be replacing the outhouse down by the water

with a full indoor bathroom.

Other than that, it's gonna be pretty cut and dry.

All right, let's do this.

CHASE: Yeah.

I want to get out on a ladder and get those boards out.

ASHLEY: OK. Dogs out for demo.

Safety first.

Sink or swim.

No, no, no, no. Don't sit on that.

Don't sit on that. Don't sit on that.

Don't sit on that.

I'm almost on my summer weight.

Yeah.

You're not, though.

RYAN: [laughs]

CHASE: Oh, you can see where the roof was rebuilt.

They did a really good job.

RYAN: You're getting new floors, right?

Yeah, of course.

[music playing]

So these are nice chairs.

The leather on them is really nice,

except for there's four of them and only one of the leather

is bad on the seats.

So maybe I could find someone that does it

or maybe I can do it. - Yeah.

Who knows?

No, you could definitely find the leather.

You have all the tools.

There's not a lot left in the camp.

So something that was here before,

it would be nice to bring it back in and be able to use it.

Watch your fingers.

Although we are going to have to use those awesome kitchen

cabinets.

A lot of camps... a lot of the problems that they have

is mice and rodent infestation.

So what's good about these is A, they're real easy to clean out.

And B, they're metal.

So a lot of times the critters do not like it.

So, you know, they're all in good shape,

so I don't see why we couldn't maybe

spruce them up with a new counter top and reuse them.

[music playing]

We're back at the Hamill camp.

And the sun is out, the lights are on,

and it's not as scary as I thought it was going to be.

You know, I was kind of worried that the dark

was going to be hiding some stuff, and it looks good.

It wasn't scary at all today.

Well, I take that back.

[screams]

[laughter]

I hate you.

I hate you!

[laughter]

Not cool!

Look at him.

I can't...

That's awesome.

That's not awesome.

Did it scare you?

Yeah, of course it did.

Very easy to scare my wife.

You know, we have a lot of fun with it.

She's a good sport, so it's fun.

[dog growling]

Silence!

Good boy.

[music playing]

CHASE: Today we basically just cleaned out

the interior, you know, pulled off any paneling,

got all the walls stripped back.

Ew!

ASHLEY: Oh, that's a whole ant farm.

CHASE: That's a colony.

There were some carpenter ants in the wall.

No camp is perfect.

This one had a little bit of carpenter ants.

I've already called the exterminator.

They're on their way at some point in the near future.

We had Harry from Pinnacle Tree out today

to take a look at the trees that needed to come down,

the monster pines.

That's the priority right now, is to get the trees down.

- Oh, OK. - Yeah.

So obviously that one right there's got to go.

Uh-huh. - OK.

So down, down, down...

- You got it, buddy. - No problem, buddy.

Thank you. Good to see you.

- Good to see you again. - Likewise.

Yeah, you too.

ASHLEY: A lot of these big, huge, old spooky

trees are going to collapse on that camp any time.

Once Harry cut them down, maybe we can do something

with some of the wood.

[chainsaw buzzing]

RYAN: They're going to limb up two trees to the left side

of camp, and they're going to drop the big pine tree

where our addition needs to go.

Thankfully, the addition is going there.

That tree would have to come down either way.

It's leaning right over the camp.

This is my type of demo.

Yeah.

Nice and easy.

I didn't even sweat once.

No [inaudible] necessary.

RYAN: That's a first.

This was still nasty.

This was not that nasty.

Ants.

We found ants.

We found issues.

Oh, you have a few ants.

Nastiness... this was like, a two.

DIXIE: No.

I'd say it's like, four, 4 and 1/2.

JEDI: I'd say two.

- I'm going like, two. - Yeah!

Two. - Two.

Six it is. All right.

Good job today.

[laughs] Good job.

Good job, guys.

Good job, Gussie.

Come on.

[upbeat music]

We're back at the Hamill camp in beautiful Mount

Vernon, Maine, this morning.

Hey, you guys did a... you guys are kicking butt today,

just in time for the rain.

Justin, BT, Jason and Nick have done a great job

today jacking it up.

As you can see, they've been going off these posts.

They've already come up about two feet.

We're making a plan and getting it

high enough so Walt's dad can walk in safely

and get out safely.

He's getting older.

And one of his last wishes is to get over to camp and use it.

And we're going to stop it when

it's level with the driveway?

Yeah.

I think we pretty much want to come down, like, to this,

right here.

Maybe a little...

I can put a string level on it.

Yeah. Maybe a little bit lower.

Yeah.

This is the scariest part of the whole job.

This is a most precarious time of the job.

It's a little bit hairy.

Everyone's a little bit on edge, so we've

got to go slow and steady.

Two of us on each side, and one guy

can float around when someone needs something.

Nobody go underneath the camp here.

Yeah, slow and steady.

And the big thing is not to get it to tilt too much.

We had to bring the camp up quite a substantial amount.

We got our beams suspended where they're going to go,

and now it's time to set it down.

If it doesn't come down perfectly,

it can throw everything out of whack.

How's everyone looking?

RYAN (VOICEOVER): Windows can break.

It structurally could not be sound.

A lot of bad things can happen.

Ready?

As soon as this is back where we need it,

there'll be a lot of stress off the guys and it's go time.

[creaking]

She's creaking.

[music playing]

This is the scariest part of the whole job.

We're nearing the end of week one at the Hamill camp.

This is the most precarious time of the job.

It's a little bit hairy.

Everyone's a little bit on edge, so we

got to go slow and steady.

All right, blue's coming down.

We had to run the camp up quite a substantial amount.

We got our beams suspended where they're going to go.

[creaking]

Creaking.

She's creaking.

RYAN (VOICEOVER): If it doesn't come down perfectly,

a lot of bad things can happen.

I'm going up.

Who's in this front corner?

Yeah, baby.

RYAN: All right.

I'm free, Justin.

RYAN (VOICEOVER): Luckily, we took our time.

We were able to lower the camp 13 inches

without anything coming apart.

Nice job, buddy.

RYAN (VOICEOVER): That camp had to go up really high.

But when it came down, it inched over a little bit.

But it looks great.

[music playing]

The guys got a new platform framed up and posted.

That looks awesome.

This addition is going to double the square footage of the camp.

We built the base, got a lot of good sturdy supports under it,

and now it's time to start building the walls.

Hopefully, by the end of the day today

we'll have the three walls built and we can

start working on the rafters.

[music playing]

Hi, Justin.

JUSTIN: How you doing? - Good.

How's it going today? JUSTIN: Good.

The place is huge!

JUSTIN: Getting there.

This project is at the halfway point,

so this is when I start to get involved.

I was just talking to Heidi.

Since he's an author, I was thinking

it would be cool to make some sort of bookcase.

Have you guys seen anything around here

cool that you can think of that we

could make a bookcase out of?

Heidi and I had this idea to make a custom bookcase for Ike.

And then Justin had this surprise for us,

and they're the shutters that came off the camp.

Justin, look at you.

Right?

I don't know if you'd want to put something like this,

you know, or just do whatever.

Ike had all these books just sitting around the cabin.

I think it's going to love it.

Now he has a place where he can display all of the work

that he's done.

[music playing]

So this right here was the original camp...

16 x 24.

What we ended up doing was jacking it up,

reposting underneath this in order to get

prepped for the new edition.

The new edition is 16 x 20.

And instead of running it parallel

we did it perpendicular in order to keep the same roof pitch.

The addition is going to be the bathroom and the new master

bedroom, with the screened-in porch on the front

of the original camp.

Roof is the main goal, main concern.

So it's... it's time to get roofing.

DIXIE: Had a little bit of roof trim

to do when we first got here, some rake pieces, some fascias.

Once we got that on it went fairly well.

Chase is getting the valleys ready with ice and water

shield.

And I'm just up here waiting for a...

Oh, look.

There it is.

Bye, guys.

[music playing]

Right now, we've got all our fascia, all our trim,

all our rake pieces on.

We're ready to throw some drip edge.

I got the paper down and now we're ready for shingles.

[music playing]

Getting the roof down was huge.

Because now if we get rained out we can focus inside.

We have the cedar shakes to do outside our windows.

But if we get rained out, we can go inside and keep working.

So that's a huge day.

It keeps us moving forward and it eliminates

any obstacles in the future.

[music playing]

Ash!

What's up?

I'm here at headquarters today.

Ryan couldn't help me.

Chase couldn't help me.

Thankfully, Nick stepped in and save the day.

All right.

Ready, Freddy?

All right.

So we have a... This is a double day.

Double project day.

OK.

These chairs came out of the cabin, as well.

I really like the leather detail here.

NICK: Me, too.

So the table and chairs came out of the cabin.

I grabbed 'em.

I found a leather person.

I'm going to take the chairs over and have

new seats put onto the chairs.

But before I can do that, they all need same love.

They need to be sanded down, they need to be painted.

Oh, yeah. That's gonna be pretty.

NICK: Ooh, yeah.

ASHLEY: That's gonna be really pretty.

NICK: I love that blue.

ASHLEY: So I had 'em here today, so I thought just get out

my sander and just start prepping them

and getting them ready to go.

So I'm going out to the leather lady.

You didn't even move your mouth.

You know the thing about leather?

- No. - Say leather.

Leather. - Leather.

ASHLEY: Leather.

Leather. - Leather.

- Leather. - [laughs]

You don't have to move your mouth if you're from Maine.

Leather.

Yeah.

Nick's from Florida, so I thought I should

teach him a little Maine speak. Leather.

Leather.

You can say leather...

Leather!

You want to help?

OK.

[music playing]

So Nick and I, you know, we got to shutters

there and just wanted to figure out what size we wanted it.

You guys, do you want a skinny book shelf or a fat one?

- Oh, Gussie. - Skinny?

Yeah, I know.

This place where I picture putting it

on the screened-in porch, where he gets a lot of inspiration

and does a lot of writing, there's

not a whole lot of wall space.

So I thought, let's make the bookshelf nice and narrow.

So we just had to measure it up, cut the shelves,

put the backing on it, attach the shelves.

Whoa. Whoa.

Perfect!

This is solid.

All right, cool.

So what I'll do is I'll take this

and I'm going to polyurethane this.

And then I'm going to take that and we'll...

I'll spray those out.

And then I'll take it to the leather...

Leather lady. - Leather lady.

Leather lady.

[laughs]

NICK: Killer.

ASHLEY: I really appreciate all your help today.

Can I carry a chair, too?

Just focus on that.

[laughter]

[music playing]

Beautiful day here at the Hamill camp.

I stopped in with Bill, looking to see if there's

anything I can do, lend a hand.

And there's not a whole lot going

on except for the roofing.

Chase, I brought you a professional roofer.

Where?

[laughs] Right here, Bill.

All right.

Hop on up, Bill.

We'll take five bundles.

Yeah. Yeah.

I'll put 'em on my back.

CHASE: Perfect.

He and I are going to sit here and tell you how great of a job

you guys are all doing. - Are you?

BILL: You got a hammock anywhere?

[laughs] I came in today...

I noticed that the guys had bought the stain,

so I wanted to take a look to see

what it was going to look like on the old versus on the new.

Chase, what do you think?

You like it?

How is it going to look on that gray, though?

I don't know.

Should I just paint on it right now to see?

Oh, yeah.

It does have a brown ting to it once you put it on this gray.

It's a pretty good match.

It's not going to be perfect.

I wanted perfect, I would have gone for more

of like, a solid stain.

But I like being able to see the wood and the characteristics

of the cedar shingles.

Ah!

[laughter]

When cedar shakes are left natural, they gray up.

So this will keep it a nice golden wooden color

with the brown on top.

So it's definitely a different look, but I like both.

It's just different.

[music playing]

So we really know put the push on this morning

to get the roof started going.

And once the shingles were going down it was going quick.

There were enough guys working on that,

so I hopped down, went inside and started laying out

the walls in the new edition.

This will be the bathroom, master bedroom here,

hallway there, closet.

And this will have a shower, toilet, vanity.

This is going to stay open.

And this will probably get a ceiling in it.

[music playing]

Once we got those laid out, Justin and I

moved onto the front porch.

In the original plans I think it had been designed

to be a screened-in porch.

And they never were able to use it as that

because it was so small.

But now that we've added that addition,

they should be able to make this into a screened-in porch

very nicely.

[music playing]

Nice.

It makes all the difference in the world.

By putting the addition on we gained a huge master

bedroom, room for a bathroom.

And then, cutting out the area where it was shaked over just,

you know, gave a nice view of the water,

let in a lot more light, let in a really nice breeze.

So I think it really feels like a screened-in porch now.

[music playing]

Today's a big day.

We have Doug the plumber here and Francis.

Francis is going to dig some water lines,

some sewer pipe, and then a little conduit

up for some electrical.

OK.

This is right there, down there by the outhouse.

We know where that is.

We don't know where this is.

There used to be a trailer up here.

Then they built the camp and then they put in the septic.

So there's been a septic system and a well system

with a bunch of water lines and alarms already in.

So we have to figure out where these are,

not break 'em, and then get new stuff to it.

What tree is that?

No, I think it's that one right there.

Oh, yeah.

You know, this is a big project here.

Hopefully it goes smooth and we don't mess anything up.

There's a lot of underground stuff.

There's a lot of power underground going to all

these different directions.

It'll be a little like a treasure hunt.

So this says well tile.

Oh, is it under that platform?

Oh, look at this.

It's pretty deep.

It's a big one, too.

Yeah.

Wow.

[music playing]

We're coming right along at the Hamill camp.

Today is a big day.

We have Doug the plumber here and Francis.

Francis is going to dig some trenches.

Doug's gonna lay some water lines,

some sewer pipe, and a little conduit up for some electrical.

You know, this is a big project here.

Hopefully it goes smooth and we don't mess anything up.

There's a lot of underground stuff.

Oh, look at this.

- It's pretty deep. - That's a big one.

That's a pump house.

There's your well.

There's a well pipe right down there, down to the rigging

in the well.

This is just all for that?

Why didn't they bring the well head all the way out?

It's old school.

Turns out the pump house, the well, and the electrical

are under the same place.

So from there it's pretty easy to figure

out where the existing water and electrical lines were.

We'll get this out of your way, you guys

can start going to town, huh?

I got faith in Doug and the plants.

All we have to do is run one trench from the pump house

to the new edition.

Then Doug will run our new water and sewer lines.

And while Doug is doing that, I'm

going to help Francis pick out some stones

from the property for landscaping and steps

to the new platform.

Hopefully, by the end of the day,

we'll have the camp tied into the existing well.

And then we'll have the new camp tied into the existing septic.

And then we'll have a conduit run

so we can get all the power underground

going to camp, as well.

[music playing]

Then Francis will fill everything in, cover it over,

and you'll never know we were there.

Back at the Hamill camp, today we're

going to work on the deck system that goes over the pumphouse.

It's going be a covered deck, so it's gonna

be a different project for us.

It'll be a really neat project.

The covered deck goes over the well house and all the pump

and the septic pump and everything that went into that.

So we have to cover that, and we have to make it accessible.

So we decided to kill two birds with one stone

and build a beautiful debt with a nice area

they can hang out on.

This deck's gonna be cool.

We're gonna do kind of a modified little timber frame

structure with a roof on it.

We're waiting for the stonemason to get here.

After he's here, he's going to probably be a week.

Then we got to put the floors down.

So even though we have, you know, a little over a week

left, we're waiting on subs.

So it's going to be a race to the finish, like always.

Today, Sarah and BT are finishing the roof

on the pumphouse, and Francis is here

working on the landscaping.

The ground is extremely bony.

There's a lot of rocks.

So as Frances was pulling out the rocks he made a pile.

But then he kind of incorporated those into the landscaping.

He made a nice set of stairs up into the covered gazebo

and, you know, set a few around the camp, as well.

All told, landscaping was probably...

With the excavation work that needed to be done,

probably about $5,000.

I love the landscaping that Francis did.

They used existing rocks from the property,

and just placed them in really, really great ways.

I've said it once and I'm going to say it again.

Francis has really stepped up his plant game this year.

Ike asked that we incorporated some cool stonework

into the camp.

Mason the mason was here, and he got the stones

for the wood stove hearth.

What I'm doing is laying out a template

for the stones, where we're going

to put the hearth in back.

And I'm just marking out right now where all these rocks are,

so I won't have to cut rocks or anything

and make a mess in the house.

[music playing]

Almost ready now to take a picture of this

so that I have a reference of exactly where

these are going to be going.

That's why I took pictures, to make sure I'm staying straight,

so that all the rocks above will fit together.

The hearth, just more or less, it's a heat barrier

from your... from your walls.

You could go with a sheet rock or some tin or tile, bricks.

But rocks are just natural.

Fire protection, heat protection... you have to have

something behind the stove.

And the installation of the last stone.

[music playing]

A good cleaning on the last few stones and this is a wrap.

It looks absolutely beautiful.

It looks great.

It's a nice little color addition and texture

addition to the pine.

We got it all grouted in, and that's ready to go.

We just, again, waiting for wood floors in the kitchen area.

Then we can set a base and put the wood stove back in.

Next he's going to tackle the stone shower.

So today I'm meeting up with Amy.

She's the leather worker that Jedi

mentioned can help me with the chairs from the Hamill camp.

Hi, Amy. - Hey.

How are you?

Good.

I got the painted chair.

I see that.

I'm so excited to see what you've been working on.

Yeah. Let's go check it out.

All right.

I found these chairs and a table in the camp.

Mm-hmm.

And instead of throwing it away,

it's always nice when we can, like...

- Right. -... reuse it, repurpose it.

So I chose this really nice blue.

And with Amy's raw leather, I think

the two are really going to complement each other

and it's going to look great.

So did you come up with some ideas?

I did.

I have a couple of ideas that I was playing around with.

So here's...

Oh.

Are those poppies?

They are.

I love poppies.

AMY: And then I started doing, like, a more...

He's... this is a real woodsy camp.

This is going to be so nice.

It's gonna feel like a whole brand new table and chair set.

AMY: Yeah. - This is such an upgrade.

We're now taking these beautiful custom leather pieces

and putting them onto these newly painted chairs.

I mean, it doesn't get any better than that.

Gonna show me how it's done?

AMY: Absolutely.

ASHLEY (VOICEOVER): So the first step with Amy was

that she wet down the leather.

Then she put a piece of plastic over it

and then taped the design down to it.

AMY: You take the stylus, and you go over the lines

that are for the design.

And it will transfer it onto the leather.

See how that embosses on there?

ASHLEY: Oh, yeah.

AMY: So you have your line and you don't have any pencil

or pen marks on there.

ASHLEY: Oh.

AMY: The water helps soften it up.

And then, when it dries, I'll spray it again.

ASHLEY: She made it look effortless.

Me, not so much.

So as soon as Amy's done with the seats

I'll grab them, put them back together, and voila.

Finished piece, once it's tacked onto the chairs...

I mean, this is really over the top.

I definitely, definitely think that Ike's gonna love it.

[thunder clap]

[music playing]

We're cranking right away at Hamill

and it just came to an abrupt halt.

Today has been a struggle.

I went to get materials.

I went one way, down power line, had to go 10 miles around.

On my way back, I get all the way to the job site

and I had to literally get the chainsaw out and cut a tree out

of the way to get here.

We have had the driest September on record.

Today is a different story...

40 mile an hour winds, heavy rains from the South.

A big tree just fell on the other side of the property,

knocked out power.

And it shut down everything.

And if we don't get out of here now,

there's a chance we could be stuck here with no power.

[music playing]

It's Thursday and we lost power.

[laughs] Yeah, nothing.

There's no lights on the meter.

We're never down.

We're never down.

[laughs]

We got hand saws.

We got a generator.

RYAN: What's on the list for today?

What's the punch list?

The list today...

The front screened-in porch, the screen panels can be built.

All the doors, we're going to do Z-back doors.

So those can be cased out.

I brought a window to get that window in the kitchen area

and get ready for the masons.

The masons have a little bit more work to do.

They've got to do the shower.

But it's looking good.

RYAN: It looks real good.

So I think if we got that done today,

then next we can focus on working our way right out.

[music playing]

It's a windy week in Mount Vernon.

And today we getting the place closed in, ready for flooring.

So a Z-back door is something that you'd make at camp.

We just take one-bys tongue and groove.

You get your measurements, and then you put a Z

in the back of it to hold it.

Then, when you hang it, you want to hang it

so the Z goes to the bottom hinge,

so all the weight sits there and it holds the door up.

Z-backs.

What was I doing today?

BT and I were prepping and building all the screens

in the screened-in porch.

It was one of the last things they had to do, pretty easy.

We ripped all our stops, got them all painted,

ripped up all our screen material,

got our screen framed, all painted and put together,

and slid in nicely.

Springtime, it'd great to sleep out there.

JEDI: It'd be an excellent spot on a hot day with a nice breeze

coming right up the guzzle.

It's a pretty basic kitchen.

We're reusing the base cabinets they had.

It's going to have a small stove,

a small refrigerator, a sink base, and a metal base cabinet.

But in front of the sink we left an opening for a window

onto the screened-in porch just let more light in.

They can open it up and get a breeze in there if they want.

So I just framed it in and found this window

in my junk pile of windows.

This is from a previous camp we worked on.

And I'll just try and reuse these hinges.

I don't know if I'll be able to or not.

Cool.

Oh, my gosh.

It is gonna blow it right through there.

[music playing]

Today, while Ashley and her team are furnishing and decorating

the cabin, Mason our mason is finishing off the stone shower.

This really is the last step before we give the camp back.

Before we got here, they were using an outhouse regularly

when they were staying here.

So now, to have indoor plumbing connected to the septic system,

water connected to the well, power connected,

I is finally making the upgrades and the connections

that have been here so long waiting to happen.

Before, this cabin didn't have a bathroom.

There was an outhouse but now this camp

will have one of the nicer bathrooms we've ever done.

For the furnishings in this cabin

I'm going to use the chairs and table that we redid.

And, yeah, so we have the bookcase where we'll

be able to display his books.

And, you know what?

I grabbed a desk so that he had a great place

where he could sit and write on his new screened-in porch.

I framed some of his posters that we had hanging up.

And then just... I have a dog bed,

you know, just kind of focused on reusing

a lot of the furniture that he had in here, making it nicer,

and I'm bringing in my own touch.

[music playing]

CHASE: Oh, there he is.

ASHLEY: Oh, yeah. Got his dog.

CHASE: Oh, he's got Finn with him.

Here we go.

CHASE: He's smiling.

Oh, welcome back!

Hey there!

Wow!

That's crazy.

CHASE: We almost beat the rain.

[laughter]

Almost.

What do you think?

Oh, my god.

That's enormous.

That's bigger than... More than twice as big.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

We had to do a little rock work.

[laughter]

ASHLEY: Oh, there you go.

Finn's doing a little rock work for you, too.

ASHLEY: Hi, Finn.

Holy moley.

How's it going?

That's enormous.

It's going great. - It is.

It's much bigger.

Look at this place.

- Nice to see you, again. - It's crazy.

Good to see you. - Hi.

So, yeah, a lot's changed.

IKE: That is crazy.

[laughter]

Oh, my god.

Wow.

Yeah, so it's definitely a little bit bigger now.

Yup. I can see that.

It's unbelievable to see it, you know, now.

I couldn't even recognize parts of it.

It was so crazy.

It started in the ground here.

You know, we had to connect the septic.

IKE: Yup.

We connected the well.

We connected the electrical.

And when Francis was digging all the trenches to do that,

this is some pretty rocky soil...

IKE: [laughs]

CHASE:... so we had a bunch of rocks

that we needed to do something with,

and Francis used them extremely well.

Wow.

You know, he set them around, kind of defined the driveway

again a little bit.

- So that's all from here? - Yeah.

- Yeah. - Wow.

Oh, my.

And then, on the camp itself, you know, we started out...

Lifted it up, got under it, jacked and leveled it up.

Brought it up probably a good foot and a half.

We had to, you know, get in here, do a lot of our work.

Those massive fines came down.

Pinnacle Tree got rid of those.

IKE: Got you.

So those aren't an issue anymore.

IKE: Yup.

We decided to do the new addition perpendicular

versus parallel with it.

IKE: Mm-hmm.

CHASE: It just gives more space.

It's amazing how much more functional

the space is now that it's got that extradition on the side.

We were able to keep the original cedar shakes

on the main original camp, and did new cedar

shakes on the rest of it.

And then just treated them with a stain.

That's amazing.

Holy moly.

Can we see inside?

[laughter]

I think so.

All right.

Yeah, after you.

All right.

Come on, Finn.

Wow.

Oh, wow.

It's amazing.

It's changed a little bit. [laughs]

A little bit.

I can't even make sense of the way it was before to the way

it is now.

ASHLEY: Take a minute.

So, yeah, originally you walk in, small kitchen right there.

IKE: Right, yeah.

CHASE: Woodstove's in the same place, but we put a...

IKE: Oh, wow.

CHASE:... beautiful stone hearth behind that.

That is amazing.

Kitchen was absolutely not functional before.

And now, you know, it's got a legitimate stove,

a legitimate refrigerator.

It's going to be amazing to be able to prepare meals and have

a place to sit and eat.

It was pretty open but there was some paneling.

We pulled that all out.

IKE: Yup.

All new electrical throughout.

This is the original table and chair

that was still in the camp. - Oh, wow.

ASHLEY: Yup. We took it and...

OK.

ASHLEY:... we ripped off the old covers.

And I brought it to my friend, who

made all new leather chairs.

That's beautiful.

They've reused so much of the... what was originally there

in the camp... you know, the furniture and the chairs

and even the cabinets in the kitchen.

And it really has the same feel to it, the same vibe.

With the new addition we were able to get

the bedroom out of there and turn that

into a true screened-in porch.

Wow.

Is that for me to write on? CHASE: Yup.

Check it out. ASHLEY: Yeah.

Go check it out. - Oh, awesome.

That is the best view.

Pencils.

[laughter]

How long would it take me to write...

ASHLEY: There you go.

...Write a whole book with a pencil?

ASHLEY: I framed your posters.

IKE: Oh, wonderful.

And then we also took two of the old shutters off...

IKE: Yup.

ASHLEY:... and made a nice bookcase to display your books.

Oh, neat.

It's great to have that little bookshelf

in the... in the writing room there on the screened porch.

I'm already thinking of it as the writing room.

You know, because it had windows before,

as soon as we took the windows in and framed it up

for screens, you could just tell that that's

what it originally was.

You always look up from... From your writing and you kind

of stare off into the distance and, you know, imagine what

you're... what you're seeing.

And it just helps to be able to, you know,

look out at such a beautiful lake, beautiful scenery.

[music playing]

You probably want to check out the rest

of it, the new addition.

Check out the addition, the new part.

IKE: Awesome.

To love the floor, too.

Oh, wow.

An actual bathroom.

CHASE: An actual bathroom.

Wow.

That's beautiful.

Oh, the... and you repeated the...

The same stone in the shower.

Yeah.

We went with a stoned...

Isn't it beautiful?

That's amazing.

You have all the stones outside that lead in.

And now... now it's got the stones

repeated both behind the fireplace and in the bathroom.

It's amazing.

CHASE: The main bedroom.

Oh, wow.

Oh, great.

Look, Finn.

[laughter]

Check it out.

ASHLEY: So I guess I wasn't quite

remembering your dog's size.

IKE: [laughs]

ASHLEY: 'Cause I probably could have...

CHASE: It'll be like a pillow for him.

You got a little pillow here and a little toy.

[laughs]

You know, I'll probably take that bed

and he'll take this one anyway.

[laughs]

IKE: That's generally how it goes.

CHASE: Kept the ceiling cathedral in here just

to give it, you know, kind of that open feel.

Got a closet right there, so you got... you know,

you got a decent sized...

IKE: Yup.

CHASE:... main bedroom in here.

That's wonderful.

The woods on this side and the lake on that side.

That's amazing.

ASHLEY: All kinds of potential for scary things.

[laughs] The details that they put into the space

are just amazing.

It's such a wonderful, cozy space now.

It feels like home already.

[music playing]

Finn, want to go check out the gazebo?

It's amazing.

He said, yeah, I do.

Yeah.

Perfect for a day like this one. - Right?

Exactly. - [laughs]

[music playing]

IKE: It's wonderful.

CHASE: Doubled the size of your camp

and gave you this nice outdoor space, as well.

How's your dad?

You know, he's doing better.

He... e spent the summer recovering from surgery.

ASHLEY: Yeah.

And he managed to get back on his feet.

He suffered a little bit of setback recently, but...

ASHLEY: Is he going to be able to make it here today?

Oh, yeah. Absolutely.

ASHLEY: Oh, good.

He can't wait to see the place.

ASHLEY: Oh, good, good, good.

It's all he's been talking about for weeks.

Well, all right.

I guess we have to just...

Our work here is done.

...Hand the keys back. IKE: Awesome.

Thank you so much. ASHLEY: Yeah.

CHASE: Absolutely. - Really appreciate it.

Hopefully, you and your dad enjoy it for a long time.

All right. Thank you so much.

Yeah.

Bye.

CHASE: Bye, Finn.

I'd love to thank the Maine Cabin Masters for... for turning

this place into the... Into the camp that my dad

always envisioned it would be.

He always imagined that he would be able to, you know,

spend spring, summer, fall here, and have

it be like its own space.

And it's an amazing gift to us that Maine Cabin Masters were

able to come in and do that.

I'm going to move in come spring.

I don't know why you don't move in now.

You got a jacket.

[laughter]