Cabin Work With Pictures

I spent five days in Canada with Nate and Joe. While there, we worked to fix up the guest cabin that was infested with ants, mold, and rot. We had thought it was only affecting a single part of the building, but there were still a lot of ants in the other part, but they should be gone now. I've got pictures to share:

We started by ripping a big hole in the wall. A lot of the support beams along with the outer wall were rotted or filled with ants, so we ripped it apart.

We also revealed some problems on the inside of the cabin. The two left pictures are of a rotted and and-ridden support beam. This beam requires replacement, which requires replacement of the entire roof. The roof could use it, though, since it sags horribly. Also there were live ants everywhere. After we cleared out the interior, we fogged the place to find piles of ants on the floor the next day.

While we ripped out the outerwall, we noticed the beams underneath a window were falling apart, so we replaced all of the wood around it. The last picture shows the final product.

We also ripped all the interior off, including the trim and the old desk that was nailed to the wall. All usable materials ended up piled in the corner, while the rest of the wood made a good-sized burn pile.

We did other things, such as split wood, eat food, or go hiking and falling in order to get nasty cuts on our thumbs (just me, really).

Since there were no girls around, we took the opportunity to grow our beards for the week. We did not fare so well. I'll need some thickening of the beard before I can really get the grad-student look.