Looking Good!

Well we are getting close to the cabins being done and they are looking fabulous! The walls are painted in the sleeping areas, the bathroom walls and tiles are finished and the floors were stripped and finished this weekend. I was amazed to see how good the floors looked, I am hoping that we can gradually do the same for the remaining cabins over the next few years.

The braces for the benches on the front porch have been installed and painted. One of the cabins has the screened doors on the front porch installed too. The concrete ADA parking spaces and ramps have been poured. This week we have the punchlist checklist meeting, so we can see how much is left.

The bunkbeds and mattresses have been ordered. They are the same as the ones in the Mountain View Lodge (formerly the Staff House). They will be in a natural Honey Oak finish with navy blue mattresses.

MVL is complete & cabins are coming along

The Mountain View Lodge is now complete! They added doors onto the living room area and the kitchen entrance from the main hallway. They added a new layer of drywall to the entire living room area and mezzanine. The upgrades were required by the Fire Marshal for our occupancy numbers. It gives the bedrooms some more privacy and it looks great!

The Cabins are moving along at lightening speed as usual. They have painted the exterior of one of the cabins, have the skylights in and have began the interior insulation. They have also started the benches that will line the inside of the screened in porches.

The Lodge is not slated to be complete before camp starts so they are focusing all their efforts on the cabins till they are done. Until then, they are doing demo and getting the foundational stuff done in the lodge. They have found some floor issues where the old walk-in cooler was and they keep running into underground springs that have to be redirected so the footers can be poured for the foundations. Look what color the lodge used to be!

What a difference a few weeks makes...

While I was on maternity leave I took pictures of all the progress. Sorry I couldn't get them posted before now. The Mountain View Lodge (formerly the Staff House) had to be shut down AGAIN to br upgraded to a higher burn rating. We had to have an extra layer of drywall in the main living room area, new doors and door frames to the main rooms, doors added to the living room area and more work to the sprinkler and fire alarm system They are doing the final inspection right now and hopefully we will have this mess done & completed!

The cabins are moving along VERY quickly. The internal framing and initial plumbing is coming along. They have started the siding, the railings on he porch and the roofing on the girl's side. The boys side is alittle behind where the girls are but still on shedule. Both sides have the windows and HVAC equipment installed.

The Lodge is being whittled away in efforts to begin the rebuild. The back wing where the offices were is gone, as well as, the entire front porch. The footers are in the beginning phases to be set for the addition of the bathrooms. The kitchen has been gutted down to the studs and is ready to start over.

The lodge has been started

The lodge has been started and it is coming along as quickly as the cabins! The propane tanks and electricity were taken out this week making room for the grading to start. Several trees have been removed from the sides of the lodge for the building to expand onto. The front porch is starting to disappear also. The graders are working on leveling it out from the lodge to the parking lot where the old staff house stood. It is a bit muddy but looking good.

The cabins are also coming along. The ply wood is going up on the second cabin to cover the framing and now you can see the actually shape or footprint of the cabins. They are looking great!

They also started the work we have to have done on the Mountain View Lodge (formerly the Staff House). It has to have some dry wall work done for fire codes. They brought in massive sheets of dry wall yesterday and had to use a boom to lift them up and over the railing to the main floor. It was interesting to see!

Walls go up, walls come down...

This week we have had lots of progress on the cabins. We have one getting the new porch roof put on and the other getting plywood walls put on. They are already looking so much better. They are starting to look like the designs and I think everyone is going to be very impressed with them.

The demo has started on the lodge. The Maggie room is now a thing of the past..sniff, sniff! They have already gutted the wing with our offices and are going to start demo on that soon. They are waiting on the gas tanks to be removed (Wed) to start the grading and demo. The one and only bathroom in the building now has a "view" and will probalby be gone this week!

Walls are coming along!

The framing is going up fast! I was very surprised when I saw plywood going up on one of them also. They have taken the ceilings off of where the old bathrooms were also so it is opening up nicely. The ceiling in the cabins will be vaulted with skylights to allow natural lighting during the day, thus reducing energy use and cost.

The bathrooms in the existing 6 cabins are also coming along. The new stalls are in and they are starting to clean up. The fixtures have not been replaced yet because they are going to match the rest of the cabins and the lodge.

Flooring ans walls starting to go up!

The snow has been flying and the temperatures are super cold but the progress is still moving forward at at a steady pace. The ground is frozen and they are having to jack hammer 14-16 inches into the frozen ground just to get the footers set. They have started the walls on one side and the add on floors.

We are going to gradually move the electricity to underground for safety and maintenance purposes. The cabins are on lots of large rocks so doing this has proven to bit a bit of a challenge also but it coming along very well with some ingenuity.

The camp road has taken some wear and tear with all the moisture and heavy trucks so we are doing what we can to try to grade it in between freezings. We have asked H&M to help us out with gravel also.