After getting a semi-restless night’s sleep, we got up and got after it. Ron began assessing next-steps, and I packed up the tent and bedding. We decided to skip breakfast, and planned to get lunch in town.
Step one was removing the floor, so we would have access to the floor joists. Ron measured where it ‘should’ be, and we removed all the nails that would be in the path of the Skilsaw to cut away the plywood. Some of the nail heads popped off, so we knew we would need a new blade after this process. Once the plywood was up, we were able to cut away and remove the floor joist and replace it with a new one.
We found the dry-rot. We think this could be the issue the previous owners encountered and decided they didn’t want to deal with fixing, so they sold. Fingers crossed this is the only ‘big’ issue we encounter.
Eventually, we beefed up the floor beams, and we got the floor joist married (after Ron used the Skilsaw to rip a 2x6x10′ board down to 2×5.5, then notching out where it needed to sit lower at two beams, amazing work) to the rest of the exterior joist. While writing this is easy, actually doing each of these steps is difficult, and drains both of us physically and mentally.
Floor repair complete, it was already about 3pm at this point. Being Monday of the Labor Day holiday, but not having a wall on r-cabin, we had a tight deadline of ‘sunset’ to get everything buttoned up. Lets just say we didn’t make that deadline.
To the wall!
We decided, with this view, to replace the 4’x3′ window with a 5’x5′ window. Picture me, one day in the not-so-distant future, sitting on my couch, with an open window, looking down the river. Thankfully, we had to replace the wall, so expanding the window was a no-brainer.
As you can see, we were working by LED’s and Lanterns well into the night. We ended up finishing around 9:30pm, cleaned up the tools, buttoned up the house, and headed home after a major roadblock on r-cabin progress was complete.
Hoping to return again on September 16th with all the windows, and get r-cabin dried-in and moving towards occupancy!
Even Rogan likes looking down river.