It's not a cabin without the cabin-ets

 

Friday

I woke the trailer back up (inflated the tires, patched up a flaky wire in the lighting system, fixed up the railings). I filled the truck bed up with trash. I got out the driveway and realized I was also supposed to take the personnel lift to storage in Yakima, so I zipped back down the driveway and tipped it onto the trailer and strapped it down. I did my dump run and fueled up in Cle Elum, then drove to Yakima, where Rick helped me load the cabinets, then drove back to the cabin.

The trailer was full. I swept and vacuumed and taped down some floor protection. I had repaired the dehumidifier at home, so I got it put back in the crawlspace.

Saturday

Jeff showed up bright and early and we humped most of the boxes into the house.

 

His first comment was "let's see how much of a battle we'll have with these floors." He set his level down and it showed 0.0. Nice work, Eliot!

We got the kitchen, which was about half the boxes, almost entirely installed on Saturday.

Sunday

I had a day to work alone. I spent  three hours hauling tools and scrap lumber and other junk away from the perimeter of the cabin to prepare for the arrival of the excavator guys tomorrow; they're going to bring up the dirt level so I can build the decks and patios.

I replaced most of the crappy subfloor screws in the bathrooms to ready for installing backer board and cabinets.

I put the doors and drawers back into the completed part of the kitchen to get them out of the way.

That gave me a place to move tools into the bedroom to clear the floor in the laundry room.

I located the studs for installing the kitchen upper cabinets, adjusted the exhaust vent pipe. Then spent an hour breaking down a dozen giant cardboard boxes and packing them into one big box to clear out the great room and make room for the next set. I vacuumed up the floors.

Monday

I got ramboard put down, stair by stair, to make a work path to the upstairs bathroom.

Jeff came back. We finished installing the kitchen.

 

 

The excavators came and worked on filling around the entry and front patio areas.

We installed the downstairs and upstairs bathroom cabinets.

After Jeff went home, I fixed up subfloor screws in half the laundry room and got the backer board installed.

Wednesday

Jeff came over again and we completed the last two sections: the vestibule cabinets and the laundry room.

The excavators forgot to dig my post holes, so I measured and marked those out.

The excavators had cleared out a big tree stump which made my trailer parking spot much better.

I spent a long time putting away tools, vacuuming, and peeling up ramboard to keep the floor from developing a pattern as it sun-colors. The top photo is a glamour shot I took of the completed kitchen in the cleaned-out great room.