The 4th of July falls on a Saturday this year so our official holiday was the Friday before. We took an additional 2 days of vacation to go along with Friday so we have Wednesday through Sunday at the Lake this weekend. with all that time off the GNC project should be moving along nicely.
We arrived at the lake Tuesday evening after work and opened everything up. We have had a lot of rain up north and the grass was long , and the trees and brush are green and thick this year.
Wednesday morning started on top of the ladder staining all the wood in the soon to be hot tub room with two thick coats of waterproofing stain. This will keep the moisture from the hot tub from rotting the wood.
After that the final install of the Stain Glass windows in the back wall. By 11:00 everything was completed inside except closing in the front wall. (The hot tub has to slide through there.)
Now the big question is how are we going to move the 600 pound hot tub from the garage to the new room?
A gang of Chinese laborers you say?, Magic and levitation? 6 strong men? all wrong. We are going to do this like real men! Well at least the real “geeky men” I know. Science and horsepower are the answer!
Archimedes said ”Give me a lever and I will move the world! “
Scott says “ Give me a Jeep and a set of inclined planks and I’ll move a hot tub!”
The first thing is to set the planks (above) and raise the tub on blocks (below)
Then we construct a sled from scrap materials laying around from the building construction.
The sled is then placed under the raised tub and strapped tight with tie downs. A harness is fashioned out of spare rope laying around that belongs to the “Great Stump Man”
Nothing to it!
Once the tub was in place we could hook up the special GFCI electrical circuit and wiring required to power the hot tub. While I worked on the wiring Margaret filled the tub with water to test for leaks. (We don’t want to close the room in on a leaky tub do we?)
The tub survived the leak test, and all the pumps and heater work correctly. We don’t have a filter for the tub yet so we had to drain the water. We now have a tested and functioning hot tub in the room. Once we get the filter we are ready for a party!
With the tub completed its now time to close in the front wall with the sliding door, and finish up the many details remaining.
By the time Sunday rolled around things were looking pretty good. The front is completed, the deck is skirted , grass is planted again, and the electrical is all complete.
Other than a couple of details on the hot tub room all that remains is the farmers porch over the deck and to stain the old part of the shed to match.
We did find time to water ski and enjoying the beautiful weather at the lake also.
Oh and the Casita has a new name! With all the stained glass and views of the woods Margaret has renamed the Great Northern Casita to.......
“ The Garden House”.
“Summer In Minnesota is short but spectacular. Enjoy it”
1 comment:
You did it!!!!!!!!
And it looks great.. I knew that it would....
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