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[Ashley] Ryan, Ryan, Ryan...

[Chase] Today we're headed to meet Dave and Maria Emmith

and Dave's sister Diane.

[Ashley] Ryan, are you in the bathroom?

I've never seen two bathrooms right beside each other in my life.

It's zero bedroom, two bath.

[Ryan] Little leaky.

We have a huge rainstorm coming in

and we still don't have a roof on this place.

It's all hands on deck to get this thing covered in

before we put the roof on.

Look at that! [laughs]

[Dave] Holy smokes!

- [gasps] - Whoa!

[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.

[all groan in disgust]

Chase Morrill and his family of Mainers renovate, restore

and save these historic structures.

Are we in the right place?

[Chase] 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.

[Chase] Nice!

[excited overlapping chatter]

[Chase] Our crew is the best at what we do.

[Ashley] Nice job on this one.

We're all best friends and we love it.

- [Ashley groans] - [Ryan] You have to pedal when I do?

[Ashley] I don't know.

- [Ashley] Oh, Ryan, Ryan... - [Ryan] Street mud.

[in a cautionary tone] Ryan, Ryan...

[Chase laughing]

- [Ashley] Okay, okay. - [Ryan] Winter is coming, we gotta get there.

[Chase] Today we're headed to meet Dave and Maria Emmith

and Dave's sister Diane.

[Ashley] Are they big bikers or something?

- [Chase] Uh, they're big motorcyclists. - [Ashley] Oh.

Why didn't you get us a motorcycle?

Insurance.

Do you have your license?

- I had my permit twice. - Neither of you have your license.

[Ryan] So is it on a tarred road? Is this place fancy?

I feel like it's fancy.

[Chase] It's on Annabessacook Lake.

[Ryan] Yeah?

[Chase] And Dave's grandparents used to have a camp on Annabessacook

back in the '50s,

but they sold it when he was little.

[Ashley] All right. Don't wave!

So, he bought property back on the lake?

[Chase] Bought property back on the lake and then had a camp built.

[Ryan] What year was it built?

[Chase] Oh... Five years ago?

[Ryan] Oh, is it five years old?

- [Chase] I don't know exactly. - [Ashley] That's it? What're we doing here?

[Chase] You'll see, it doesn't suit their needs.

[Ryan] I'll ride a bike like this any day for new build.

- Here we go. - [Ashley] You love new builds.

Here it is! Is this it, Chase?

Yeah, I'm giving you guys a wide berth.

[Ryan] Whoa!

- We got it, we got it! - [Ashley] Press the brakes!

- [Ryan] We got it! - [Ashley] Put on the brakes!

You're pedaling too fast for me.

[Ryan groaning] Oh, hill. Pedal, pedal!

- [overlapping chatter] - [Chase] Slow down!

[excited cheering and laughter]

[all cheering and laughing]

How we doing?

- Whoo! - All right!

- [Dave] All right! Way to go! - [Maria] That was fantastic!

- Hi I'm David Emmith. - I'm his wife Maria Emmith.

And I'm the little sister, Diane Maguire.

[Dave] Look at her in all her glory.

[Ashley] Chase was telling us all about it.

And it does really seem like you need us.

[Dave] Well, you know, it's great for, like, a week or two,

and then after that... I mean, we just retired this year.

So, we need to kind of expand a little bit.

[Maria] Nobody else fits in there.

Tell us about it.

[Dave] There is a little kitchen area and it's like really little.

And there's no stove in it.

So, we would like to have

at least a little bit of a kitchen area...

- [Maria] We wanna live here. - [Dave] ...little stove.

Oh, you wanna live here?

- [Dave] We don't always wanna be cooking outside. - Yeah.

It already has two bathrooms, but...

[Ashley] Two bathrooms?

- Oh, yeah. If you have girls in your family, right? - [Ryan] Who designed it?

No, no!

- No, it was his... - That was my idea.

- Who has two bathrooms in a cabin? - [Ashley] I know, right?

People will say, "What, were you crazy?" I said no!

If there's women in your family, you gotta have two bathrooms.

-[Ryan] If you're forward-thinking. Yeah -Try to be.

It's not done. I mean,

we wanna take one of those bathrooms

and maybe convert it into, like, a small bedroom or something.

Because we'll have a bathroom

with the master bedroom on the addition?

[Chase] Ten foot, 12 foot addition out?

- We're going 12 feet. That's right. - [Chase] Twelve?

By 24.

So we're adding 50% 'cause this is a 24 by 24.

And you have the permits and everything already?

Building permit's up on the window.

- [Ashley] Well there we go. - Have at it.

[Ashley] I know why we're here.

[all laugh]

And as you can see, I've had a little bit of tree work done.

[Ryan] I see you left that there for something.

[Maria] Our friend Danny Barnes.

[Dave] Hey, if Dan can carve an eagle out of that,

that would be like the coolest thing ever.

The last thing would be a new dock.

The one that we have right now,

it's old, it's rickety.

So, how much are you looking to put into this project?

[Dave] We're looking at 55.

And it would be nice if we could get it back in eight weeks.

Hmm.

Okay, I know, maybe that's...

Maybe that's a bridge too far.

- If it doesn't happen... - We'll try our best.

- We better go get started now. - [all laugh]

You got some keys?

Yes, I've got some keys.

[Ashley] Let's do it.

[Dave] All right. There's some keys for you!

- [Ryan] Thank you. - [Dave] All right!

[Dave] We are very excited that the Cabin Masters are here because

the work that they do is phenomenal.

[Ashley] I like the colors, you guys.

[Ryan] I like the colors too.

[Ashley] You know, with camps like this,

when the paint job is fairly new,

and I really like the color,

I don't really see a point in changing it

if it doesn't really need it.

If it's getting a new roof, that will change the look a lot.

It'll also have an addition.

So, there's gonna be a 12-foot addition off this side.

We can pull this deck right off, reuse it.

The master bedroom is gonna be towards the front this time.

- [Ryan] Yeah. - You know, just because

that's really what you wanna be looking at.

There's gonna be a master bath,

so there is no sense having a good view in your bathroom.

[Ashley] And where are you gonna enter now?

You'll enter probably on the back end of it.

So, just a deck with no stairs?

- Well, it might end up having to have stairs. - Okay.

So, this will be pulled off. We'll do new posts.

Reframe that all out.

And this will be closed in.

This will be closed in, it won't be a screened-in porch anymore?

[Chase] No, the screened-in porch won't go all the way.

- It'll stop here. - [Ashley] This'll be the bedroom?

Yes.

[Ryan] "On this site in 1897, nothing happened."

[laughs] I love it. It looks all official.

I really said to myself that is my dream camp.

It's off the ground, the back's high,

it has overhangs.

It's like, unbelievable.

You always jinx us.

- Until you go inside. - He always jinx us.

[Ashley] These cabinets are hideous.

- Sorry, Dave. - [Ryan] Wanna play "Simon Says"?

[in high pitch] Do-do-do-do...

[Ashley] I mean, the floors are nice, the walls are nice.

- [Chase] The floors are just... - [Ryan] Floors.

[Chase] Yep, these can come up real quick and easy.

But, bathroom, bathroom right now.

Let's check out... Oh, this is the bathroom?

- This is so strange! - Wait a minute.

- [Ashley] For real, bathroom-bathroom? - [Chase] Yeah.

[Ryan] There's no way it's a...

[Ashley] This is the weirdest.

Ryan?

Are you in the bathroom?

[Ryan] Wanna poop together?

No!

- Are you serious... - [Chase] Now, switch.

- No way. Switch. - [Chase] Now, switch.

- [Ashley] So... What? - [Ryan] Are you seri... [laughs]

This isn't even real.

I've never seen two bathrooms right beside each other in my life.

Wait, there's showers and everything.

[Chase] Yeah.

[Ryan] There's not even a bedroom!

[Chase] [chuckling] I know.

Wait. [chuckles] There's isn't a bedroom?

- It's just two bathrooms. - [Ryan] How're we gonna sleep tonight?

[Ashley] It's zero bedroom, two bath?

You never hear that.

Well, we definitely need to get them a master bedroom, then.

Are we insulating it?

- [Chase] Yeah, we might as well insulate the ceiling. - Yeah.

[Chase] Close it in. Pine it in.

Catwalk across. That will be the loft over there.

You'll have a new entrance on the back.

Take that bathroom out,

and maybe bump the wall out

for the master bathroom.

Form does not follow function on this one.

- I just want... - But we'll make that right.

[Chase] On the exterior of the camp,

we are putting in a new metal roof,

new skylights to let more lights into the camp,

a 12-foot wide addition moving the porch.

On the inside of the camp we are putting in a master bedroom,

bring the new addition,

moving one of the bathrooms to master bedroom,

loft above that space,

connecting the two lofts with a catwalk,

new kitchen,

and rearranging the bathroom to get more space for the washer-dryer.

It's a very European design.

Let's get it more like, Americanized.

You think this is European?

Yeah, 'cause "you're a peeing" in two rooms.

I've really seen enough.

Come on. Call the guys.

- [Ryan] Weird, weird. - [Ashley] We'll be back, weird camp.

[Chase] They're not gonna know what to think either.

[Ryan] Doug is gonna have to work double-time on this one.

What are we doing to this place?

- Looks brand new, doesn't it? - Yeah, it looks brand new.

[Chase] Today we are at the Emmith camp

on Annabessacook Lake.

We are here just to do kind of some exploratory demo.

Pull out what we need to,

get rid of one of the bathrooms,

and come up with a plan for the new addition.

Come on, dogs.

Figure out where we're gonna put the porta-potty.

Wow, they've jammed a lot in here!

A lot of these times, when the homeowners

are building these places on their own,

not in a bad way, but the foresight isn't there.

They just don't see what they actually need

and what they're doing while they're doing it.

They get the idea in their head

and they just go for it.

- Get it up, get a roof on it. - Yeah.

[Jedi] We can change it around, no problem.

[Dixie] Ew! There's a frog in there!

That's a frog!

Oh, he's going down the drain!

I've never seen that before.

We're here to get rid of the second bathroom,

and just kinda tear into it a little bit,

so we can prep for the addition.

[Ryan] Watch out, Jedi.

That's toilet water.

I walked all the way to the door to pour the toilet water out

and it came right back in the house.

Here she comes.

[Ashley] Jedi, Dixie and I took the kitchen apart,

got rid of those ugly cabinets.

Set it right here.

[Ashley] We're gonna put new cabinets in.

That will just change the space right there,

just 'cause you're not gonna have the red, yellow and blue.

All the cabinets will be the same color.

That one's drained.

That wasn't really a demo,

Cut a bunch of the supply lines out, the drains out,

and just pull stuff out.

I did get a lot of toilet water on me and on the floor.

- But, other than that... - Gross, have I just touched your hand?

That's dried up by now, it's fine.

Hey, Ryan, just keep your eyes out for my little frog buddy.

[Ryan] All right, I'll keep my eyes out for your little frog buddy.

The second bathroom was bothering the heck out of me,

and it took me about 20 minutes to demo it. It's perfect.

It's an awful short shower.

You didn't really demo it, you kinda took it apart.

Yeah, it's not even demo. It's like, take it apart.

[indistinct]

They can reuse some of the stuff

in the new master bedroom.

Not the shower.

I'm laying on the extra shower curtain,

'cause I'm in toilet bowl water.

See? It did pay to have two bathrooms.

[Ashley] Throw the sheathing off the stairs.

Where did you want your next opening?

[Chase] I said just like, from there...

- [Dixie] From the corner? - Like four feet.

[Dixie] So, a strip from the corner out?

- Yeah. - [Dixie] Okay.

[Chase] I think that'll be good.

[Chase] Maybe to that outlet?

Yep, perfect.

[Jedi] Right now, just taken these panels off, 'cause...

this is gonna be our entrance to the new addition.

We just kinda wanna get it open,

see what was behind here.

Now we know it's just traditional framing, a little bit of insulation.

Little bit of electrical,

and we'll have our opening into the new addition.

It's really nice that the camp is so new.

Everything is still straight and level.

It's built well.

There isn't a lot of demo,

so, it's more a matter of just kind of getting out

what we can to make more space to move around and work.

Easy demo.

Down to one bathroom.

- We're moving in the right direction. - [Ryan laughing]

Next step is, pull of the deck,

start framing up the addition.

I mean, we've got... Most the materials, we can reuse.

Windows, as needed.

And then some skylights.

Give back the home and get out of here.

[Ashley] That was a nice day.

[Chase] Location of this camp is great.

You know, it's on beautiful Annabessacook Lake.

But it's close to Winthrop,

which helps out as far as getting subs in here

to take a look at the camp.

Jeff from Northern Dock stopped by.

- Good morning, Jeff! - Hey!

- Good morning, Chase. How you doing? - Good.

- Good to see you. - Good to see you!

It's starting to get colder, so we'll get a dock done

sooner rather than later.

Dave's looking for a dock system

that's a little bit bigger.

He just wants something a little more secure,

little newer...

- [Jeff] Yep. - [Chase] ...to anchor some boats to.

[Jeff] Yeah. Looks like this could definitely use some stability.

[Chase laughs]

[Jeff] We can definitely take care of that and get them set up.

- Okay! - No problem at all.

- Fantastic. - All right. Thank you!

[Chase] This week, the guys are working on framing up

the new addition on the Emmith camp.

It's a 12x24 addition

that will give them a new main bedroom,

a new main bathroom,

and an additional loft for more sleeping space.

We're headed into fall, and it's starting to get cold,

so we need to get this closed in as fast as we can.

So, we are setting a ridge beam and rafters on the new addition

in order to get started on the roof.

[drilling]

The next part about this new addition is

it follows the same roof flank,

so you won't be able to tell what's new and what's original.

- [Jedi] Holy smokes! - [Ryan] It's looking good.

- It does! - That's a big addition.

What's the plan today? It's just three of us.

Yeah, small crew but we should be able

to open up in between to the addition

into the main living space.

- For more bathrooms. [laughs] - For extra bathrooms.

For more bathrooms.

[Ryan] I think we gotta put a beam in here.

- And cut this whole section right out, yeah? - [Jedi] All the way over.

[drilling]

[groans] There you go, buddy!

[Jedi] You got it?

We were trying to open up the wall between

the old camp and the new addition,

and it was really stuck.

[grunting] Wow, those nails are holding up pretty good, huh?

[Jedi] It goes under the floorboards.

Okay.

I thought that was gonna be a real easy job,

but it's turned out to be a lot harder than I expected.

Pinched in by the floor I think, isn't it?

[Chase] So, it is construction day at the Emmith camp.

We are busting through into the new addition.

We got the...

second bathroom cleared out,

That's gonna be a small bedroom.

On the porch here, we're gonna close in the ceiling,

put down a new floor,

put in some winterizing covers for the windows.

And this is the new addition.

This'll be the main bedroom on the front,

overlooking the water.

This will be closed in.

New entrance to the bedroom will be right here.

There'll be a master bathroom.

Window there.

And this will all be loft space.

And connected into the main living space.

[Ryan] We're trying to open up the wall between the new addition

and the existing building.

But unfortunately, when they put on the rim joists

it sandwiched the old sheathing on.

So it's a pain in the butt to cut that out.

I ended up having to saw all along the bottom of that wall.

I had to leave a chunk in there.

But you'll never see it.

[Chase] We needed to open up in between

the addition into the main living area.

So, we used some material that was on site

to build a nice header.

These... 2x10s. I got two of them.

[Chase] We're gonna have a catwalk from

that loft space over to this loft space.

We don't really want any posts in the center here.

We were trying to figure things out,

trying to get a game plan for our catwalk.

And Ryan, just out of nowhere, said,

"Let's touch base with Tom from Mainely Handrails."

We have a new camp with two lofts

on opposite sides of the building.

We're trying to figure out how to get a catwalk across.

[Tom on phone] Yeah?

[Ryan] We were thinking maybe something of aluminum

that hangs from the ceiling or something.

[Ryan] Awesome! Thank you!

One thing we've learned as we've gotten older is

if you could find someone else to do it,

and do it better, just call them.

What is the point of this deck?

Two bathrooms and a useless deck.

Hi, honey. What you doing?

[Ashley] Come here to check on the progress. See what's up.

Where's everybody?

[Ryan] Oh, Dixie's hunting. The other guys are on other jobs.

For the life of us we couldn't figure out

why that deck was here, so...

solution to the problem,

Ronnie's crew took a window that we're not using over there,

put it in here.

We'll take some old siding.

Patch this in, it'll look good.

Jedi and I will be the only ones that knew this was here.

[Ashley] I know.

And Ashley.

And everybody watching.

[softly] And everybody watching.

So, before we started this project,

Dave had trees cut down.

And they left behind this large tree,

with a huge, huge stump.

So, I thought,

who better to call than my friend Dan.

- Hey guys! - [Ashley] How's it going?

Good, how are you?

It's been a while.

[Dan] It has been.

What a spot!

- [Ashley] I know isn't it beautiful here? - [Dan] What a tree!

I know!

- It has your name written all over it. - Yes, it does!

So, yeah. The homeowners left this tree intentionally,

because they really wanted some sort of,

sculpture or something out of... the tree.

I thought, who better to call than you?

[Dan] With this tilt on this tree

- I think an eagle would be... - [Ashley] You see an eagle on it?

Oh, it would be sharp, right?

There anything you need to get up high? Do you have...

- How about you set the staging up and I'll do it. - [Ashley] Okay.

As soon as we got a staging set up, we'll let you know.

- Awesome. Bye, Dan. - All right, guys!

Thanks, Dan.

- Hey good to see you guys! - Talk to you soon.

[Ashley] He said it's totally possible to turn it into an eagle,

So, he's gonna take over from here.

It's in his hands now.

[Ryan] Hey, Tom! What's going on, buddy?

Hey, walk up around, come on in.

Today was a brain day to get ahead of the situation.

Tom unfortunately told me that they like a challenge.

- [dog barks] - Hey!

[Ryan] We need a catwalk.

[Ashley] Yeah, they want a dogwalk.

So this is... there's gonna be a loft over here.

So, what we were hoping for is to get a nice, long dogwalk.

Anytime we've thrown anything at Tom, he can usually do it.

So, we just wanted him to come down and check it out.

It definitely has to be out of aluminum,

'cause if we make it out of steel, it's gonna be crazy heavy.

Yeah.

An aluminum-framed catwalk is going to be

stronger, you can do a bigger span.

So, I think Tom will do it up right.

And huge improvement on what we would've been able to do.

- See you, guys. - Thanks, buddy!

Come on, guys! Pack it up, let's go home.

[Chase] It's week four, and the guys are here

to install the new dock system.

[Chase] The old dock was definitely rickety, sitting on

plastic 55-gallon drums.

This new dock system is a lot more stable.

It's still a floating dock system.

But it's four feet wide,

it's got plastic-formed floats under it.

Blocked together, it's got chains that anchor to the bottom.

The benefit of having a floating dock

versus a dock on piers,

is that it is able to rise and lower with the lake levels.

And because it's a sandy beach and pretty shallow,

it gives them flexibility for getting boats tied up to it.

Just in time for winter.

[Jeff] It's gonna be perfect. I think...

- It is. - They'll really like it.

[Ryan] I'm at the Emmith camp, it's week four, and things are going really well.

The guys have the place framed up,

and the second story loft is really coming together.

These guys have done a great job

marrying in the old cabin with the new cabin.

It's almost like the old cabin is the blueprint,

and all we had to do is go and take

our measurements off that, to build the new stuff.

I mean, this is the closest you're gonna get to blueprints on a Cabin Masters job.

We've received some of the windows,

but they had to get transferred over another store.

So we're short a few windows.

That'll push us back a little bit,

but other than that, it's been really smooth sailing.

Hopefully, these windows come in next week.

If not, it could really screw us up.

It's week six at the Emmith camp,

and today we're gonna install the new floor for the loft

in the new addition.

We're also trying to get the exterior finished up

because winter's coming.

The outside is done, except for a few windows.

This week we're gonna focus on the inside of the camp.

We're gonna be building walls in addition and sheathing in the ceiling.

We're using these in white pine, like we always do.

But on the walls we're gonna mix it up and go diagonal.

You know, we always do a vertical or horizontal,

so, we decided to go with a 45, throw a curveball in there.

Great progress to be made at the Emmith camp.

Rodney and his crew have been cranking away.

The ceiling is all sheathed in.

We've got openings for skylights up there.

The new addition looks fantastic.

Walls are being closed in.

Waiting on one window here.

This is the main bedroom.

Both good sized, good views of the waters,

so, looking really nice.

Got a nice, good sized loft upstairs.

Kitchen will go back, right there.

This will be the new entryway.

We'll put the deck back here,

give the new entrance in here.

And the place will be finished off.

Hi, Otis!

[saw whirring]

[Ashley] Today, Dan the chainsaw artist

is here at the Emmith camp

to carve a big eagle into the top of the stump that was left.

Dan's really amazing. He can look at the tree

and see whatever it is that he has decided to carve into it.

And he starts by just chopping off big old clumps.

And then slowly,

you can see whatever it is that he is creating

start to take place.

Hey! I see that!

I see a beak!

[Dan] What do you think?

- It's starting. - Nice!

[Chase] How's it cutting?

[Dan] It's cutting like butter.

[Chase] Dan is definitely one of the best chainsaw artists

in the country.

He goes to competitions all over,

and he does amazing work.

He can take a giant log and see a creature,

and cut away and end up with bear, eagle, fish.

You know, whatever.

And then he comes in, puts details on the feathers.

He torches them, he uses spray-paint for coloring, whatever, but...

He always has a fantastic end product.

[Ashley] It is definitely a conversation piece

as you're walking up to the camp.

Little leaky.

- I'm trying to fix it, Ryan... - [Ryan laughs]

Let as little water in as possible.

We're in the next to last week at the Emmiths',

and things are going great,

but we have a few issues now.

We have a huge rainstorm coming in.

And we still don't have a roof on this place.

The roofers are coming Wednesday, that doesn't do us any good though.

Michael and Richard have been up there

figuring out where that leak was coming in.

I'll get a bunch of five-gallon buckets.

[all laugh]

They got it somewhat fixed,

but we're really nervous what's gonna happen.

What's up, buddy!

Black top!

Roofers are supposed to be here this week,

and it figures it's gonna be the day after the rainstorm comes in.

So, our fingers are crossed.

We have precautions in.

It could cost us more time. And time is money.

Thank God for the plastic.

[Ryan] Little leaky!

- I'm trying to fix it Ryan... - [Ryan laughs]

We got a huge rainstorm coming in,

and we still don't have a roof on this place.

What's up, buddy?

Black top!

Roofers are supposed to be here this week,

and it figures it's gonna be the day after the rainstorm comes in.

So, our fingers are crossed,

We have precautions in.

Thank God for the plastic.

It's all hands on deck to get this thing covered in

before we put the roof on.

We got really lucky.

Michael and Richard got up there

and were able to get all the leaks before the big storm came in.

[Dixie] Drop it like it's hot!

It's week five here at Emmith camp,

and Jared and I are working on installing the skylights.

Rodney and the boys were here, and they got it all roughed in.

So, all we have to do is cut out the sheathing boards.

Heads up!

Nail those skylights in,

[Dixie] Okay, now your side, you gotta go over a little bit.

Yeah.

- That's for my straight-edge. - That's very ingenious.

- Forty-five, right here. - Flash it.

Get outta here.

[Dixie] ...and we should be good to go.

It's week seven at the Emmith camp,

and we have the roofers here today

to work on installing the brand new metal roof.

What's great about the roofing company is that

they don't have to fabricate the panels off-site.

They bring a roll of roofing with them,

they have a machine that runs it right through,

and they can bend the panels on-site and cut them right to size,

which makes their job go a lot more efficient and quicker.

And because this roof has three skylights,

it makes it a little trickier.

But it allows them to do custom cuts as needed.

And of course, Doug is here working on the plumbing

to separate the two bathrooms that are connected to each other.

[Doug] They had two bathrooms next to each other.

So now, we've left one, it's got the washer and dryer down there

to be more like the common bathroom.

And this is in the master bedroom now,

so this will be more like the private bathroom.

I've got the rest of the guys setting up the deck for the new addition.

I think this end's gotta go down quite a bit.

Yeah, we got half-inch.

Things are moving along great, and I think the Emmiths are going to love it.

He brought the whole crew today.

- [Chase] Tom showed up... - Oh, it looks awesome!

...with the catwalk and ship ladder for the loft.

Wow, look at that.

Yeah. We get these stairs and the deck done,

that'll be it for the exterior.

[Chase] Not a ton of stuff, but...

Well, with having one day, it's a ton of stuff.

[Chase] So, we are close to being finished at the camp.

The outside... the roof is on. Skylights are in.

Addition is done.

We've brought it 12 feet out this way

to match the existing house.

This deck system used to be on the front of the camp.

We've pulled it off to build the addition

and then reattached it on to the back.

Today we need to

get the deck stairs properly installed,

the railing up.

We got tons of 2x12s, tons of 2x4s,

and tons of ballast.

[Chase] Look at this stuff.

[teasing] Someone's getting excited!

He's scavenging.

[Ryan] This deck was attached to the original house.

But it wasn't the same configuration.

The stairs came off that way.

So, I have this railing

with these stairs and that post

I'll have to build a whole new section out here.

So, I'm gonna have to block it out, do like a half lap or something.

Nothing's ever as easy as you'd hope.

What you building?

Oh, I'm just building extension jams,

and window trim for the skylights.

[Ashley] Oh, they're ready to go?

Almost. I gotta cut this one a little bit longer.

I see this.

[Chase] What's up, guys?

[Ryan] He brought the whole crew today.

[Chase] Tom showed up...

Oh, it looks awesome!

...with the catwalk and ship ladder for the loft.

It should be tight.

Brought a bunch of guys to get that thing installed.

Wow, look at that!

Wild.

Uh, you'd want a couple bolts. He's getting some right now.

And it looks fantastic.

[laughing cheerfully]

I mean, he really outdid himself.

[Ashley] Wow, guys.

Color's beautiful.

Just makes the upstairs loft space

so much more usable.

Look at that! [laughs]

And just really dramatic.

It looks awesome.

- You guys outdid yourselves once again. - [Ashley] Awesome job.

We'll call you for the next challenge. [laughs]

Oh, we're almost there. It's gonna be mint!

Yeah, we get these stairs and this deck done out front...

that'll be it for the exterior.

This came out pretty awesome by having nothing... all scrounged.

Yeah, that was huge.

We'll make this side match tomorrow,

leave that open.

It's too cold to paint right now.

We'll come back in the spring, when it's dry,

and we'll paint it, and it'll all match.

Yeah, not a ton of stuff,

but with having one day, it's a ton of stuff.

So, we'll have everyone here tomorrow?

- Yeah. - Cool, looks good. Let's get outta here.

All right. See you guys!

Okay, we'll see you in the morning.

Definitely gonna be a race to the finish.

Inside, we've got to get the kitchen wrapped up.

Fifty-three, half.

Outside, we finish off the rail.

And then we can kinda pull out of there

so Ashley and the design team can come in and do their thing.

[Ashley] My crew and I have been here working for the past couple of days.

And the place came together absolutely great.

We got two bathrooms now.

- One over there. And one behind us. - Yeah.

- [excited chatting] - [Dave] Holy smokes!

[Diane] Oh, I can see it.

- [Dave] My best idea was to call Maine Cabin Masters. - [all laugh]

[Ashley] A great morning, but now it's a beautiful day.

My crew and I have been here working for the past couple of days.

And the place came together absolutely great.

They fortunately had a lot of stuff,

lot of art,

that they'd collected, that I was able to work with.

They really love the color blue.

So, we just kinda came in, worked with what they had.

And then added our own little touches.

Our focus was on providing extra sleeping,

so that's what we did.

We put up more sleeping upstairs in the loft,

and the downstairs bedroom.

And then in the new, larger bedroom.

All right!

Thank you for putting that up.

- Sure thing. - That's perfect.

So great, walk in the door, hang up the coat,

boom.

This place looks great!

I can't even believe it.

This new bedroom is amazing.

This catwalk, above and beyond.

[Chase] Yeah. It made it a lot more useful.

[chuckling] Way more useful.

We got two bathrooms now.

One over there, and one behind us.

Yeah, so, I guess we're ready to meet them.

- All right. Let's go. - Okay!

[Maria, sing-songy] I think I see a dock!

[Dave] Oh, my gosh! Look at that.

- I think I see... Oh, my God! - [Dave] Holy smokes!

[Diane] Oh, I can see it.

[Maria grunting excitedly]

- [Dave] Wow. - [Maria] Oh, my god. It's so beautiful.

Oh, my goodness! It's so nice and wide.

- Can't wait to use it! - [Chase] Hey, guys!

Hey!

- Can't wait to use it! - [gasps]

- [Dave] Whoa! - [Maria] My God!

- Oh, my goodness! - [giggles excitedly]

[Dave, softly] Come on!

[Maria] Do you see the eagle?

[Dave] Oh, my gosh!

[Maria] It's beautiful! It almost looks real.

- Do you see the roof? - [Dave] Oh, my gosh!

- [all laughing] - [Dave] Wow!

[Maria] We're just like, "Why is this happening?"

- [Dave] What have you done here? - [all laugh]

[Ashley] Hopefully everything you asked.

[Dave] Oh, my gosh!

[Maria excitedly] Oh, yeah. This is so awesome!

- [Dave] It is perfect. - [Maria] Oh, that is amazing.

- Oh my gosh! - [whispering] It's so big!

[Dave] The outside, seeing the overall size of the camp,

I mean, it makes it look so different.

And you already get a sense that

this is going to be enough for us,

and whoever comes to visit.

So, we couldn't be happier.

We kept the color.

Love it.

Yeah, the color looks awesome.

[Ashley] Very nice.

[Maria] And I love the roof.

It goes so well with that color.

[Ashley] It's gonna shed snow nicely.

You don't have to worry about it in the winter.

- [Maria] Okay. - [Diane] It looks fantastic.

Yeah, and then you move up to the camp,

we put a 12-foot addition out to the right side of it.

And we were able to reuse the original deck and stairs, and railing.

Kind of built off of that.

Repositioned everything.

Looks fantastic!

[Maria] Just so much nicer now.

And bigger!

I can't wait to see that window up there.

[Chase] Well, all right. Let's head on up.

- [I Yes! Let's go! - [Dave] All right. Here we go!

I like the landing over by the front door too,

so you can see people in...

[Dave] This looks so...

[Dave] Coming up to the camp, and having the steps on the correct side,

meaning like, you go towards the lake,

instead of away from the lake.

It just makes a lot more sense.

[Chase] Well, all right! Let's keep moving!

- [Dave] Oh! What? - [Maria] Oh, my God!

- [gasping] - [Dave] You gotta be kidding!

Dave, you're going to freak out!

[excited chatter]

[muffled shrieking]

[muffled shrieking continues]

[Diane] Oh, my God! Look at it!

Oh, no!

[Chase laughing]

[Maria gasping]

Oh, my...

Oh, this is so nice!

- [Maria] It is amazing! - It is dope!

[Chase and Dave chuckle]

- I know! - A stove!

[Dave] Man, we don't have to cook outside anymore.

[Maria] We can bake cookies now.

Ashley did a great job with the kitchen.

It's so bright.

We didn't have any of that before.

This was not a kitchen redo, this was just a kitchen,

new kitchen, where there was no kitchen before.

[Maria] I love those stairs.

[Chase] We knew we wanted to do a loft over this section as well,

and we needed a way to connect it.

And we were talking about how we were gonna fabricate a catwalk.

And we called Tom, he came right down,

he said, "I'll fabricate you up a nice..."

[Maria] Oh, the kids are gonna love that.

You would think that if you have two disconnected sleeping lofts,

that you're gonna need two stairs systems.

Well, you don't if you use a catwalk.

It is breathtaking. It really is.

And doesn't it feel lighter in here?

- Like there's a lot light... - [Dave] Oh, yeah.

There's definitely more light in here.

[Chase] Because this ceiling here was still open framing,

we were able to easily cut out for some skylights.

You know we got three skylights that open.

Let more light in, let in more ventilation.

And then we insulated and closed in the ceiling.

[Maria] That is amazing.

- [Dave] It's all right. - [all laugh softly]

I can stop in a second.

[Chase] Guys who showed up their first question was,

"Why are there two bathrooms right there, side by side?"

We said, "We don't know! But one's going away."

So, we took out the bathroom there,

and put it over here.

The main bathroom with the main bedroom.

- [Dave] What? - [Maria] Oh, yes!

No way!

- [Dave] Oh, boy! - Oh, my God!

[giggling excitedly] Oh, the bathroom!

[overlapping chatter]

[Maria] This is so nice and airy!

[Dave] There's a shower that we can fit in.

I mean, my gosh! It's a bedroom.

We never had a bedroom in here.

So, now we can stay up here comfortably for months.

Which is what we were looking to do.

Oh, how cute!

[Diane] No way!

[Maria] Look at this. They were able to fit all of this in here.

- How? - This was so tight before!

[Diane] This is so amazing, guys!

The camp was a great place to stay for a couple of days,

or maybe a week.

But after you try living in it for a little while,

it became obvious that, wow, we needed some help.

[Chase] We were able to finish the cabin in eight weeks,

which I was very skeptical of, in the beginning.

And since it was a newer cabin and there was material stored under the camp,

we were able to hit their $55,000 budget.

All right!

- That's our cue, then. - That's our cue!

[overlapping chatter]

[Dave] Thank you so much...

- You just have a fire and enjoy! - You're very welcome.

Oh, we will. We'll be thinking about you guys.

[overlapping chatter]

Thank you!

They're amazing. I can't believe what they did

with this camp.

Because it wasn't comfortable, no offence.

- No, it's okay. - It was fun.

But now there's a bedrooms, there's a kitchen,

and there's just room for everybody.

We've got a lot of people in the family that

are gonna just love this. They did a tremendous job with this.

It's so special.

Everything has exceeded our expectations.

I mean, it's above and beyond.

And we are just so pleased.