The deck is fixed in front of the old shed, the hot tub is safe in the garage now its time to put up a building for the hot tub. We took Friday off this week June 13th to have a long weekend to knock out a chunk of the “New Hot Tub Room” OK its not really just a hot tub room its an addition to the Great Northern Casita. Just to give you a before, here is the shed after it was completed years ago.
Here is the hand drawn paper vision for the new Great Northern Casita
Looks like we have a ways to go so lets get started. Here we are ready to roll Friday morning at 7:00 AM leaving for the Bemidji Home Depot.
After an hour in Home Depot gathering stuff.
With the ride home and a cup of tea completed we are ready to start digging and lay the foundation timbers.
As we progressed it rained a little on and off so up went the tarp to keep the water out of the working area.
As the new Gazebo addition raised up so did the tarp to protect from the sporadic rains showers
As the room progressed a strange man walked up from the lake. His boat was stalled and would not start down near the dock. He asked to borrow some tools. I gave him the tools and he spent a half hour or so working on the boat before he declared it a lost cause and gave up. I offered to tow him back to the dock, and he happily accepted. So I took a break and took the boat off the lift for the trip across the lake.
Back from the towing episode we had lunch and continued working on the building. We finished Friday night around 6:00PM with the post and beams up without a roof and ready to head back to Home Depot on Saturday morning for more materials.
This load of materials provided the wood for the roof and Saturday morning the roof started to rise up slowly.
Shortly after starting the roof our neighbor John showed up and his boat would not start and he needed a tow to the boat landing. So off I go for the second time in two days to tow a boat to the landing.
Working on the ladder makes thing slow down considerably and it took most of Saturday to finish the frame of the building. At 6:00PM Saturday evening the building frame topped out.
Steak and baked potatoes ( and lots of wine) were the fare for dinner Saturday night to celebrate the hard work.
Sunday morning at 8:00 the neighbors were thrilled as we were back out there hammering nails into the roof.
Since we weren't going to get it shingled today we decided to quit around noon and take a break, so I went all out to get it ready for shingles.
Its now ready for shingles next week and we are cleaned up and taking a break. Notice the Fat Tire in the hand of the guy leaning on the post.
Margaret moved in the chairs and we are setup to enjoy the new Gazebo for a while.
Next week shingles, walls, and windows.
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