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We are in South China, Maine,

at Margaret and Bobby's house.

Just like 30 years ago when you mowed my lawn.

And Margaret is one of my father's oldest friends

and recently had a fire.

Smells like a long night at a barbecue joint.

- How are we gonna get rid of this smell? - -I don't know.

What would you like me to do?

- Sheetrock? - Yeah.

Give me your best modeling move.

Work it, baby, work it.

-Look at that. -Wow.

-Wow. -Welcome home.

Well, thank you.

I thought you gave it a nice one.

You gave it a jumpy one.

You want the one with the most power.

What are we doing on lawn mowers today?

Going back to our roots, man.

Going... no pun intended.

Going way back to our roots.

Way, way back.

Tell me more.

So we are in South China, Maine,

at Margaret and Bobby's house.

And Margaret is one of my father's oldest friends

and they actually bought a red-riding lawn mower together,

named Burt.

-They shared it? -They shared it.

So we'd have to come out here on the weekends

and mow the lawn.

Yeah, load it onto a trailer or in the back of a truck.

So we're mowing memory lane right now, pretty much.

-We are mowing memory lane. -Mowing memory lane.

But Margaret and Bobby's house recently had a fire

that started in the wood stove

and pretty much gutted the entire place.

How long ago was the fire?

Oh, geez. Six months ago or so.

Pretty bad situation, so they need our help

to put it back together.

Margaret and my father were best friends.

She was not scared to, uh...

-Tell us what to do. -Tell us what to do.

-Boss us around. -Make you mow her lawn.

-It's perfect. -Make us mow her lawn.

You guys got a lot of ties to this place.

You mow the lawn.

Yep.

I've worked on it in the past.

Actually, my father, he put the chimney in.

Wait a minute.

Did the chimney have anything to do with the fire?

No, but I think Margaret was saying my father insisted

on putting the chimney in here when she had it built.

They don't live here now, obviously.

They've been living somewhere else for six months.

Yep, they haven't been staying here,

so we'll do a little bit more mowing

and then head over and meet them.

Six months? We've got to bust this thing out.

Yeah, they want to be in as soon as possible.

-They missed their house. -All right.

- Let's get back to mowing. - Back to mowing.

This house is not typically something we would take on,

but because Margaret and Bobby are such dear old friends,

we had to do the work, and what better opportunity

to make sure it gets done

than to, uh, get the whole team involved.

- Hey! - Hi, guys!

Just like 30 years ago

when you mowed my lawn on Burt.

-I'm Margaret. -I'm Bobby.

-How are you? -I'm all right.

And Ashley and Chase, the first time I met them,

they were probably four and six.

Wow, this is crazy.

I know.

And Eric, who's Chase and Ashley's dad,

introduced me to them with made-up names.

That was kind of his personality.

He had a great sense of humor.

Just like old times.

I became very involved with Chase and Ashley's lives,

much like people are with their best friend's kids.

The fire started in the basement.

Some kindling fell out of the wood stove,

and I went outside to get a bucket of snow.

And by the time I got back with the second bucket,

- it was twice as high as that -Oh, my God.

-and up to the ceiling. -That fast.

Yeah, I had to close the door. I mean...

That probably saved the house from...

-The whole thing burned, right? -Oh, it did. It did.

The fireman came up to me and said,

"You did the right thing, closing that door."

The cleaning company came in after the fire

and cleaned everything back as much as they could

and removed anything that smelled like smoke,

which is pretty much every surface area in the house.

We lost a lot.

So when was the house built?

In 1987.

-1987? Okay. -Yep.

Besides getting you back in here as soon as possible.

Yeah, like yesterday?

Could we get in yesterday?

You want it rebuilt as it was?

-Some changes. -Okay.

-Yeah. -What changes are you looking for?

Well, as you know, I want my washer dryer

upstairs from the cellar.

And then down in the basement, it was kind of divided

into two rooms with closeable doors.

Yep, and a bathroom down there.

Bathroom down there.

Chimney goes away?

Chimney goes away.

I'm mad at your father still for that chimney.

Don't take it out on us.

He had to fix his wrongdoing

Fix his mistakes, right?

We need new sheetrock. We need new paint.

We need new insulation.

Pretty much a total renovation.

What are we doing on the exterior?

I wanna put a patio out back.

Oh, yeah, I saw there was a collapsed sort of

lean-to-y thing.

That started out as a woodshed that Eric built.

And then I extended it.

You're not making my dad look too good on the show.

The extension part fell off.

That was a lovely idea, but he never used it as a woodshed.

He just used it as a junk place.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So now you'd like it to turn into a patio.

- Yeah. - Okay.

We can get started right away.

When are you hoping to be back in your house?

I guess what seems realistic would be like 16 weeks,

1st of December.

-Okay, beginning of December, right before the new year. -Yep.

And how much do you have for this renovation project?

$90,000.

Yeah, so I think $90,000 to repair all the fire damage

and just update the house, make it ready for you.

And 16 weeks, we just need a set of keys.

-Well, here you go. -If one exists.

Hey, all right!

Air key.

Works for us.

- Bye, guys. - Bye.

- Bye, guys. - See you, guys.

It is so special to be able to work with Ashley and Chase.

When I knew I needed a contractor,

there was no one else that I would call.

Oh.

Smells like a long night at a barbecue joint.

It does smell like a long night at a barbecue joint.

So what was this?

So originally, you come down here, this was a bedroom.

Okay.

And then you walked into this unfinished area,

a laundry room was back here.

And then this room was also finished off.

That's the culprit.

So this is the room that he shut off and saved?

-Yeah, but you can see-- -Oh, whoa.

There's a vent right there.

So all that smoke just got funneled upstairs.

But what Margaret was saying,

she'd love to get a bathroom down here,

get the washer dryer upstairs.

-And so you have a wall here, bathroom there, -Yeah.

this all finished off space,

because the chimney's going away.

Sorry, Dad.

You know, downstairs is

pretty straightforward and open.

No, this is awesome.

They set us up for success.

All new kitchen right around there.

And then she really wants her washer dryer upstairs.

If you bring that wall a little bit this way,

you've got room for a washer dryer.

And that's the guest bedroom behind you?

Yep.

On the interior of Margaret and Bobby's house,

we need to remove all of the charred material

and reframe downstairs for a new bathroom.

And upstairs, we'll redo all the sheetrock

and spruce it up with wainscoting down below.

We'll add a space for a washer and dryer,

all new kitchen, and give it a fresh coat of paint.

So that carpet area--

- That's the patio? - Yeah.

What is it with you guys and your carpeted patios?

I'll never understand that.

-That's a moral thing, right? -It is.

I'm pretty sure I've seen some moral driveways

all carpeted.

In mud season, it's weird.

And summer dust season.

This is the wood shed shop.

- I wouldn't call it either one of those things. - -Holy moly.

Yeah, just a lot of cleanup.

On the exterior of Margaret and Bobby's house,

we're going to get rid of the chimney that my father built,

new roof, new windows, new main entrance,

and new siding with a full rock finish

to give the house some contrast.

And we'll tear down that old shed

and create a new patio area

where the carpet is on the ground.

Well, this is going to be fun. It's different.

Yeah, and it's nice to help Bobby and Margaret.

Yeah, this has come really full circle.

That's what circles do. Let's call the guys.

So this is it, huh?

This is it. A little different.

The new camp?

Ah, not quite. Not quite.

Looks to be the classic 1980 split level.

So we are back in South China at Margaret and Bobby's place.

Smells good in here.

Smells like a barbecue pit.

And today we are continuing with the demo

that the fire remediation company already started.

So the goal upstairs is reinsulate the walls,

rewire everything.

I think all of the Sheetrock up to the ceiling

needs to come off in this room.

Chimney's coming down.

Bathroom is going to get reconfigured to get

a washer and dryer upstairs.

That wall going downstairs is gonna become a half wall.

Yeah, I think really the big thing on this place

is just dealing with where the fire actually charred

and burnt the wood.

A lot of the floor joists in the main living area

are compromised.

So we need to come up with a plan

to get those out of there.

Is that spot bad too? Just that one.

Some of the subfloor is pretty burnt upstairs,

so we'll start by just peeling back the subfloor

in the living area.

Are we going to get rid of all this that's charred,

just for smell purposes.

Well, that's what I don't know. Like...

Even if we spray it...

-Yeah. -I don't know.

If we're going to redo the floor joists,

it's all in this whole section, right?

- Yeah, there's like 12 of them, I think. - -Yeah.

But they meet here,

but they're charred here as well,

so I think we have to go...

Back to where they're...

To the other wall, I think.

- It's not a big deal. - Yeah.

Trying to take care of the smoke

and the smoky smell in the house is going

to be an ongoing issue.

It's interesting to see how the smoke worked its way up.

Right?

Like, you know, following this pipe,

and you can see like...

Through any little opening in the pipe.

Once we get as much of the fire-damaged wood out

as we can...

All right, so this wall stays.

Cut them back here.

Strip everything that way.

...it's going to get spray-foamed,

so that's going to seal in a lot.

You know, once the walls are closed back in,

that will seal in a lot,

giving a coat of paint on anything.

Trigger.

What are you doing, buddy?

You're going outside. Come on.

As many layers of protection as we can have, the better.

You know, again, the fire remediation company

did a great job,

and we'll just try and build off from that.

Hi.

What's going on today?

You want to get it screwed up

or these are all going to come off?

-Huh? -You want to take these out?

Yeah. Where is the--

There's a dumpster on its way.

Got the nail right there.

It's a screw, just like the rest of them.

That's a nail. Look.

Some are screws, but some are nails there.

Nailed it.

They had a conventional company come in

and do the fire mitigation,

but we're not sure where to start and where to stop.

There's a lot of screws in these walls, huh?

So Chase decided to take all the Sheetrock back up

to the ceilings in the top story.

And then we'll go from there.

The train's moving.

So we're taking the chimney down.

So basically, you just chip away at it,

peel it apart a brick at a time.

So it's pretty easy. Most homes,

it'll go from brick to block,

once we get below the roofline.

There we go. She should slide down now.

And once we get below the roofline...

Almost these.

I'll be able to put a piece of plywood

or something to seal up the roof.

I know. I wish the dumpster was here.

So I gotta get all the bricks cleaned off.

Whoa.

Nice job, Brixie.

Brixie.

Dixie, you seem to always be on chimney duty.

I know. If someone came up and helped me,

it'd get done a lot quicker, too.

You two are the chimney duo.

Old Matt Brix and Ash.

Carmen, you work the hardest, you're the dirtiest.

The youngest kid shouldn't look the dirtiest--

I've given him a compliment.

I think he may have shown up that dirty.

Uncle Stinky and nephew Stinky.

Call him Junior.

Junior?

What started the fire?

Uh, the wood sill got in the basement.

It's week three at the Dunn Camp in South China, Maine.

Dumpster has finally arrived,

so we're getting the backyard all cleaned up.

Inside, we're removing all the subfloor boards in the main room

so that we can get down to the charred joists in the basement.

So I guess these can start coming off.

And start replacing those.

A little bit more to me.

Now that all the charred materials have been removed,

we can reframe downstairs for the new bathroom.

And get our new subfloor in.

Got it.

Outside, we're replacing the old roof

with new asphalt shingles.

Don't tell me it was a good time.

We've got Sarah and Justin

taking down the old shed setup.

We got the entire place sprayed out with primer

for our first layer of protection

against that charred smell.

So now we're getting electrical and plumbing going.

This will be the vent for my kitchen sink

and the dishwasher.

Check, make sure you level.

Then, once they set the cabinets here,

there'll be a trap right here for your drain to hook to.

We've started to paint the upstairs bedrooms.

We ended up pulling off the siding

off the front and the back.

Because so many windows were being replaced.

You need help?

Think we're good. Thank you, though, buddy.

All right.

Once all the windows are in,

the vinyl siding can start going back up.

She wants to go with a nice gray.

Margaret really wants to be in her house

before the holidays,

and we really want to give her that gift,

so we're moving right along.

Okay.

Hello.

Hey, what's going on?

Hi.

What do you got there?

So today we're up at Tom's shop.

Get him up there.

We brought him some tractor seats.

They're rough.

Yeah, they're rough.

They've mowed a lot of lawns.

We're gonna make Bobby and Margaret a bench.

So let me tell you what's happening here.

So one of my dad's really good friends, Margaret,

we're doing a house for her

and they bought a lawnmower together back in the day.

A riding lawnmower.

Named him Burt.

My brother and I used to spend, you know,

every weekend mowing the lawns.

One of them was hers.

So that's one of her fond memories of us,

is mowing her lawn.

So we came in and we met them on lawnmowers,

so we thought a perfect thing would be to leave them

with something lawnmower.

So, Jedi here.

I just had a couple kicking around the junk yard.

He found these three seats, and lo and behold?

Yeah, I mean, I'm the lawnmower man.

So you're not trying to salvage a cushion?

No, my thoughts would be we ripped the cushions right off.

Oh, you can... Yeah, totally.

And then you've just got your metal bucket.

Peel that right there.

See the holes?

Oh, wow. Yeah, so it won't collect water.

Yep.

So these seats are made to be outside,

and to drain off any water that gets in them.

So I think we'll...

They're all going to have them perforation,

which is perfect.

Awesome. Well, this was going to rot in the backyard,

and now we're about to give it a new life.

It's the craziest thing I've ever seen,

and I haven't even seen it yet.

I like it. I'm excited about it.

I'm excited about it, too.

-We'll do something cool. -All right.

-Thanks, guys. -Yep.

I'm wicked excited.

- Morning. - Good morning.

What's going on?

Our favorite thing, Sheetrocking.

I think I forgot how to do it.

I definitely did.

It's week six at Margaret and Bobby's place in South China,

and over the past few weeks,

spray insulator came in, spray-foamed the walls.

Wiring's been roughed in, plumbing's been roughed in,

so really it's starting to close everything in.

So instead of throwing the pine at it,

we're going to throw the Sheetrock at it.

Yeah, I think so.

It's a good thing we love Margaret.

Not really looking forward to a day of Sheetrocking.

-All right. -Okay, let's do it.

Let's rock.

Wrong way.

But hanging the Sheetrock's really just the start of it.

Sheetrock and roll.

It's the mudding and taping that's going to take the time.

And, you know, you've got to hit every seam,

every corner.

Jason has experience mudding and taping.

So leave it to people with experience.

Jason, how's it going, buddy?

Good, how are you doing?

Look at this.

- How's it going? - Good.

I've never seen this on our job site.

Sheetrock?

We're breaking a lot of firsts. That's awesome.

We are.

What would you like me to do?

Guess.

- Sheetrock? - Yep.

I'm in.

I should have been more late today.

I think my back hurts.

Mine does too.

Yeah, I'd rather be

putting up pine than Sheetrock.

All right. Where do you want me to start?

You know, this is a house,

and originally they did have the Sheetrock.

So, you know, we'll put the Sheetrock up,

but then have some wood below it

to give it that, you know, Maine feel.

All right, Ashley.

45 and a half!

What?

Let's do 45 and a quart by 65.

Ashley cam.

How do you feel about the Sheetrock today, sir?

Um, you know, I haven't sheetrocked in eight years,

and it's something different. I'm happy.

Okay.

Do you have anything else you'd like to add to that?

I'm more concerned

about the camera person in my face.

That's the camera person you've had all day.

How is the sheetrocking going today, sir?

Well, it's going, you know,

we're rocking and rolling with the Sheetrock.

Sheetrocking and rolling?

I can't be with sheetrocking.

How many pieces did you put up today? One?

No, I put up like three. It wasn't that bad.

I'll clean this room up. I'm good at cleaning.

♪ Sheetrock going to the dumpster ♪

Woo!

That went fast.

Georgie!

Yes?

- Here, good boy. - Oh, I thought you were calling me.

Ashley!

Are we done sheetrocking?

I sure hope so.

For a long time.

Once every five years?

No more Sheetrock,

no more Sheetrock, no more Sheetrock.

Nice work today.

- Good work. - Yeah.

Let's rock it on out of here.

- Okay. - All right.

Sugar, wake up. Let's go. Come on.

Sugar, come.

-Line it in there. -All right.

It's late fall at Margaret and Bobby's house,

and we're getting close.

We ended up stripping off

the front vinyl siding, back vinyl siding.

We decided to go with a darker color on the top part.

And then do that, kind of, faux rock look on the lower part.

Just to break things up.

And, yeah, spruce everything up.

The interior got painted.

And floors went down.

Yeah, it's a big house,

so it's gonna take a little while to get it done.

We promised Margaret we'd be back in

before the Christmas holidays,

and I think we'll be able to make that.

Ooh, she's looking good, guys.

- You've outdone yourselves. - Hey, thank you.

This is your type of cabin, isn't it?

Oh, 100%.

Have us here anytime.

I'm back in the Dunn camp today.

I haven't been here for a while.

This looks beautiful.

- Wow. - Yeah.

Nice paver patio.

Immediately as soon as I pulled in,

I could see how amazing it was.

It will be so much easier. They can shovel it.

They can salt it. Whatever they have to do.

Francis and his team is there,

and the walkways are fabulous.

The new front, it just pops.

It looks like a whole new place.

What are the guys doing right now?

Chase is having these, like, pretty particular requests.

You know what I mean?

-Really? -Yeah, yeah.

- Really? - Yeah.

I know.

He's having us reuse these bricks.

There's a story behind those bricks. You know that.

No, I don't.

So him and his father saved those from, like,

some side of the road in Augusta.

-Okay. -Many years ago.

So there's a lot of history here

-for Chase and Ashley. -Okay.

So Margaret, the homeowner, was

best friends with Eric, my father-in-law.

- Oh, okay. - Yeah.

So what we're going to do is

we're going to cut out the existing pavers.

- You're really outdoing yourself. - -Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Eric has been with us for a long time,

and there's always these reminders.

And I know it's going to put a smile on everybody's face.

So, Jedi, we should be able to go around

and get one measurement, right?

Yeah, ideally.

So, over the last couple of weeks,

when we were here doing the Sheetrock,

we went through and strapped the living room for...

Wainscot.

- Forty-four. - Yeah, I think 44 will do for this room.

They can start cutting it.

Yeah, so the great thing about wainscoting...

so you have trim on both sides,

so you can pick a common measurement and just go.

Yep, you've got three nailers.

Make sure you run 'em plumb.

Keep them flush with the top,

and it goes pretty smooth.

Hello.

- Hello. - Ashley.

What's up?

What's going on, guys?

Uh, you know. Just putting up some...

Wagenshot.

Wagenshot.

Well, it depends on the regions.

You know, in different spots in the United States,

they call it wainscoting, wainscotting.

Wallboard.

Wagenshot.

Boy, this is a nice job, huh?

It looks beautiful in here.

Take a big whiff.

-Smells like-- -It doesn't smell like smoke at all anymore.

I've always called it Wainscotting,

and it derives

from the wainscot oak in Germany.

They probably milled it out of that.

Well, so, I had an idea.

I love those vintage cameras,

and I picked one up on the way here

so we could take a bunch of pictures

and make a little memory book for the new place.

Yeah, so as I was driving in today,

I was just kind of, like, reminiscing

about, you know, growing up with Margaret.

You going to know how to operate that camera?

Press the button.

Does it come full of film?

You guys have a lot of questions--

-We're curious. We want this to go well for you. -We are, you know?

I actually took a bookmaking course

back in college.

Give me your best modeling move.

Work it, baby.

Work it.

Don't get your fingers in--

There you go. Get it, get it, get it.

- Squat and hold the move. - Yeah. Ah.

Yeah, so I just thought it'd be fun

if I were to make a really cool

custom memory book.

This is going to be the best one of the day.

-Yeah. -For Margaret.

Come on, pictures.

Develop faster, better.

- Whoa. Whoa. - Whoa.

-Whoa. -Whoa.

Yeah, that's nice right there.

-Whoa. -Yeah, right there.

Welcome to work.

Come see what he did.

Yeah, you know, Francis and his team got here early today.

And they were able to get a lot of the walkway done.

Oh, very nice.

I love the fact that they put in the old bricks

that my father and my brother had collected.

Francis wants to know where they came from.

They came from the state capitol.

Basically, the brick was left over

from a state project.

And my father grew up close to the state capitol,

so he was constantly driving by there,

grabbed a bunch of those,

and brought them out here.

And I think we laid those down

when I was probably in junior high school.

Things are looking good at Margaret and Bobby's

out in South China.

Jason and his son are working

on wainscoting down in the basement.

Wainscoting's going on upstairs.

Walls are all sheetrocked.

Electrical's all roughed in.

Bedrooms are pretty much finished up.

They just need trim and electrical,

but we've got two bedrooms.

Main bathroom right there.

Doug's working on the bathroom downstairs.

Oh, that was a good one.

You can see here how good the wainscoting looked

mixed with the paint.

Margaret loves bright colors,

and this yellow is definitely bright,

but it's what she wanted.

Kitchen cabinets are going to go here.

Waiting on those before we can order the countertop.

New floors throughout.

We just got to put the floors down in here,

and Francis is working out back.

Got all the sheds cleaned up and everything,

so we're looking good.

- The place looks great. - Looks awesome.

I think it should come together pretty quickly now.

All that's left, really, is finish the electrical.

The cabinets should be arriving tomorrow.

Perfect.

And a lot of trim.

Yeah, a lot of trim.

The trim looks really nice, though, with the paint.

It does. I think the colors look good.

-Nice. Looking good. -All right.

Good job, everybody.

Things are really ramping up

at Margaret and Bobby's,

as we only have a few weeks left

before we have to hand the keys back to them.

So we're putting the final touches on interior trim

Set right on this...

...and wrapping up the kitchen.

You ready?

- Down. - Down.

Then we got to get Ashley's team in here,

put the place together

so we can hand the keys back to Margaret and Bobby

before the holidays.

I have a pillow that I designed with a crow on it.

I know Margaret really wanted that pillow

because before my father passed,

my dad said, you know,

whenever you see a crow, he's around.

So I brought it out here for her.

And we were looking at this as a fresh start

for Margaret and Bobby.

You know, put the fire behind them,

and get into a house that's going to last them forever.

So hopefully this is at least a start in that process.

Thanks, Tom.

All right, guys.

All right.

I think, since it's winter,

there's not a whole lot of stuff back here.

So we'll just put it

right here.

Yeah, Tom showed up today to drop off the bench.

We got little Bert.

Bert and Bert, Jr.

Never in a million years was I able to picture

what a lawnmower seat bench was going to look like.

And it turned out fantastic.

Now there's just one thing left to do.

What's that?

You haven't seen

our memory book yet, have you?

-Remember that day I was taking all the pictures? -Mm-hmm.

Well, I made a little memory book

so that we could kind of just document

everyone that's out here working.

You got Ryan, Doug, you know,

Jedi, Sarah, you.

Margaret would have loved that picture,

because you look just like Dad.

It's bittersweet.

Yeah, very bittersweet.

I think Margaret would have absolutely loved the place.

It's really sad she didn't get to see it.

Yeah.

It was about two weeks ago.

My mother called me to let me know

that Margaret was in the hospital.

She had been fighting cancer

for quite a few years, actually.

They were doing a great job keeping it at bay.

Everything was going great.

I was talking to her almost on a daily basis.

She was taking tests.

They were all coming back clean.

But then it just...

she went downhill fast.

She just wasn't feeling well,

so went to the hospital.

And, unfortunately,

never made it out of the hospital.

Well, I'm glad that we did get it ready

and Bobby can move back in

-before the holidays. -Yeah.

I mean, your team, our team,

-everybody stepped up to get it done in time. -Everybody stepped up.

But unfortunately, it just didn't...

We got this done even quicker

than when it was supposed to be handed back.

So that if we did have an opportunity

to get Margaret in here sooner,

we would be ready for her.

So Mom, Margaret's brother Steve,

Bobby, and Bobby's sister will be here today.

Bobby's sister Peggy and Margaret were best friends.

You know, my mother and Margaret, you know,

were best friends.

Margaret was best friends with my father.

Luckily, Bobby comes from a family.

I think he has eight siblings, so plenty of support.

I think they'll all be excited to see it.

You know, it would be great

just to get Bobby back into the house so he can--

-Yeah. -Yeah, continue processing

and healing.

All right, let's go meet him.

All right.

I'm just going to tuck this away real quick.

All right.

And we're off.

Oh, there they are.

There they are.

Look at that.

- Wow. - Wow.

Welcome home.

Well, thank you.

Look at that beautiful door.

That is nice.

Unbelievable.

Yes.

- Hi. - Hi.

Unbelievable.

Okay.

- No crying yet, Mom. - No.

Thank you.

Margaret would be overwhelmed and delighted

and gushing with emotion.

That color is beautiful.

- It is beautiful. - It is.

The charcoal

- and the stone-- really sets it off. - -The stone.

Gorgeous.

And I like the walkway, too.

-That's very nice. -Yeah, that's awesome.

-Always wanted that, just like that. -She would approve.

- Oh, good. Good, good. - Absolutely.

So Francis, our landscaper, came in.

He did this patio walkway here.

I made him save and reuse

- some of the bricks from out front. - - Good, good.

Yeah.

'Cause I think I helped my father scavenge those

from the state building

-when they were doing the sidewalks there. -No way!

-Oh, wow. -Yeah.

Keeping some Eric connection,

because Eric had been fundamental

in the building of the house.

And they've done that.

And, yeah, you know,

Margaret wanted a nice dark siding,

and we decided to kind of put the contrast

of the stone down below.

All-new windows.

New door.

It just stands out.

- Really? - Yes.

-Got rid of the chimney. -Yeah.

And so we had to re-shingle the roof.

- Look at that. - Wow.

I'm just amazed at the difference.

This is like-- it's a whole new house.

Well, shall we?

Go on in.

And I think if she wants to come back

and haunt this house,

-she's going to like it enough. -Yeah.

It'll be a much softer haunting.

- Yeah. - You know?

Oh, my. Look at this.

Oh, wow.

Look at-- Oh.

This is awesome.

Smell this.

I love it.

Yeah, I love the wood.

Oh, look.

Doesn't it stand out with the color

- of the wall? - And the wainscotting.

Astoundingly beautiful.

Just-- you know, jaw-dropping.

Just smelled like a cabin,

-felt like a cabin. -Yeah.

I love that smell.

Yeah. Fresh wood.

-Wow, look at this! -Oh, look at this!

Oh, my gosh!

Wow, unreal.

Just to give you an idea,

this is where the wood stove was.

It was right there?

Very nice.

And the colors. Just the wainscoting.

Yeah.

It just has the feel of a cabin.

Margaret picked out the colors.

- Oh, beautiful. - She did a good job.

The woodwork is a lovely color.

And this is just vibrant and new and...

And cabin-y.

Yeah, so, like, you were saying,

this is where the fire originated.

Yeah, this is quite the transformation.

This was definitely the most damage.

Oh, it's amazing.

We ended up pulling out

almost all of the floor stringers,

the subfloor, all-new framing,

sprayed the entire place out with a couple coats of shellac

just to seal in as much of that smoke as we could.

'Cause when we first came in here,

I wasn't sure we were going to be able

- to get rid of the smell, but-- - You did.

Everything's spray-foamed,

all-new Sheetrock,

all-new wainscoting,

all-new windows, all-new electrical.

- New floor. - -New flooring that Margaret picked out.

- Yes, she did. - Yeah.

And one big request was a second bathroom downstairs.

Yes.

-So if you want to go-- -Awesome.

- Check that out. - ...check that out.

Awesome.

Oh, wow!

Look at this.

-It totally transforms - the house-- - Yeah.

...to have a second bathroom.

I think this gave her something positive to focus on

on days that she wasn't feeling well.

Oh.

Oh, my!

- Oh, look at this. - Wow.

Unreal.

It's huge.

It feels so much bigger

- than it did before. - It does!

They took out that wall

and the light from the front door.

- It totally opens the whole thing up. - -Yeah.

I like the color choices.

Do you feel like you're home?

I feel like I'm in some stranger's house--

You do?

...that has some of my stuff in it.

Yeah, and again, we went with

the pine wainscoting upstairs

- just to-- - Awesome.

...give it a little bit of a warmer feel.

-There used to be a window right there. -Yes. Right.

We closed that in.

We left that doorway open.

- You widened the door a bit, though. - - Yep.

- This is good. - Wow.

- Yeah. - -Look at the light in here.

- Wow. - Oh, so nice.

Pull out that drawer.

Is there a little book in there?

-Yes. -Oh!

It's just a--

-We just made a little memory book. -Oh, nice.

Well, we just knew that a lot of stuff got ruined

so we wanted to just give you a little bit of something

to show what the process was here.

This is really nice.

I know these guys individually,

but to have the book to remind everybody.

Oh, very nice.

Really awesome.

Look at this room.

I love the yellow.

- Yeah. This is quite a job. - This is great.

- I love the bedspreads. - Yes!

- They look very cottagey. - Yes.

- I love it. - Yes.

And the bathroom doesn't look that much smaller.

Yeah, we stole a little space

for the bathroom.

- You did? - Oh, yeah.

- Wow! - Wow.

She always complained

about having to run up and down stairs to do laundry

while she was doing other stuff.

If it was right there on the same floor,

less running.

She's smiling down

- at this, isn't she? - Yeah, she is.

Oh, yeah. She is.

Wow! Look at this, Bobby!

- Wow. - Whoa.

Unreal.

- Oh. Yeah. - It's a patio?

So fancy!

We're going to have you all guess

what type of bench this is.

It'll launch you across the yard then?

Ejector seat.

Yeah, that would be--

- Wow, what is that? - -These are all riding lawnmower seats.

Oh, my gosh.

Margaret would love that.

She would have got a chuckle out of it, for sure,

'cause she did remember the days

- of Bert the lawnmower. - Yeah. Yeah.

We knew you wanted a patio out here,

so Francis, you know, kind of

continued the walkway

and used the same patio stones out here.

Summertime comes, you have your grill back here.

-Yeah. Yeah. -This is really nice.

She'd like this a lot.

- She would. - She would.

Yeah, well, you know what?

It's cold out here. Let's go back inside where it's warm.

Let's do it.

Words can't state how proud I am of them,

and especially what they have done for Margaret and Bobby.

-Place of honor. -Yeah, very nice.

Front and center.

Thank you, Maine Cabin Masters.

You've outdone yourselves.

And her best friend was Eric,

and now they get to oversee this show together.

- I know Eric would be so proud. - - Oh, yeah.

Yay!