Gazebo glow

A beautiful day and a long work day for Rick and Ron. Again, lots of fiddly non showy stuff - electricity almost complete in the sleeping cabin including lights mounted, inside wall between room and sun porch covered in cedar siding, major site clean up.
Took a couple of pictures of the gazebo late this evening and have included two on this post. One is from part way up the hill to the sleeping cabin and the other is from the deck.

Cabin and gazebo - final stages

Two long work days for the guys - not a lot of flashy stuff but a lot of finishing things accomplished. Siding on sleeping cabin completed, new steel door in sleeping cabin, more windows installed, inside door between sleeping cabin room and sun porch in place, walkway and railing completed, electricity to gazebo, screen door and lights installed - I'm sure I have missed something.
Rich and Ron are on their own, Andy was unable to come so in order to get the essentials done they are working long hours.
The gazebo is essentially complete - it is amazing at night with the lights casting a golden glow - and mosquito free! We had drinks there after dark and it was great.
Tomorrow if all goes well we should have electricity in the sleeping cabin, motion lights up, and the flooring in place.
The photos, in reverse order, are the gazebo with screen door in place, the north side of the sleeping cabin with siding completed, outside steel door in place and completed walkway and railing and the gazebo at dusk with the lights one (doesn't do justice to the real appearance).

Last work day for a week or so

Rick and Andy will leave today after another very full day. They are working hard to get things looking in shape for Ruth's arrival this afternoon (that is July 18th).

Finished siding on the front of the sleeping cabin, cedar covering on posts in the sun porch, some "precision" curved cedar covering on the front and back rafters of the gazebo and a lot of other small things, including repair and new screen on the ancient and deteriorating screen door to the old cabin as well as site cleanup.

The pictures include the sleeping cabin with cedar siding on the front including the gable, the gazebo from the hill (with makeshift plywood door - proper screen door to come soon), Ruth reading in the "bug free" gazebo and the guys intensely involved in the last big job of the day before dinner.

Old and new cabins

Lots accomplished again today - ridge cap on the sleeping cabin, windows installed and sealed, lots of siding, screen door installed (temporarily, as the final installation has to wait until the new outer door arrives). The underground electrical conduit and wire from power source to the sleeping cabin and wiring to the motion light is now in place.
Screening on the gazebo is now complete and a makeshift door installed on the gazebo until the screen door arrives.
Three windows have been removed from the old cabin and moved to the sleeping cabin and one new large window has been installed in the south wall upper story bedroom. What a change!
Not a lot of interesting photos so have just posted three; the first is the new window in the second story bedroom of the old cabin; second is the front of the sleeping cabin before the cedar siding and the next after the cedar siding.

Cabin windows

Today was another busy day.
I worked with Andy most of the day putting the screens in the gazebo. We are almost finished - only one more frame to go and one gable end.
No photos of the gazebo in this post - more about it tomorrow, I hope.
Rick and Ron did siding, installed the refurbished windows from the "honeymoon cabin" which is now completely unusable, put electrical boxes in and, this afternoon the windows arrived - they were installed in a couple of hours. They change things dramatically and look great. Glad we have lots of openers as the western sun really warms it up in the sun room, even though there are still gaps to be filled around several of the windows.
The photos show the siding along the north wall, the first window being installed, a couple are from inside and the last is one of the cabin with all windows in the sun porch.
More tomorrow.

More gazebo

Today Rick and Ron built a small "stoop" in front of the door of the gazebo to reduce the step up to the floor level. (you won't see it in the photos here).
They put some great finishing touches on the inside of the knee wall and started on the walkway and small deck at the entrance of the sleeping cabin. (last photo, along the left side - not that easy to see.)
Tomorrow, weather permitting, Andy will be here and start putting the screens in the gazebo. Rick and Ron hope to complete the trenching for electrical etc for the sleeping cabin and then get started on the siding and preparation for the windows which are supposed to arrive tomorrow or Tuesday.
Please note on one of the photos that the skirt around the bottom of the gazebo has been stained - my contribution.
Another long day for the guys and lots done but as the small things take time there is not a lot to show.

Gazebo- final stages

A long day for the guys today and much done.
Trenches to bury the electrical wires to both sleeping cabin and gazebo, electrical wiring in the gazebo, completing the ledges on the knee wall in the gazebo, the door trim and the cedar siding on the gazebo.

The gazebo look terrific! Yesterday some folks going by in a motor boat slowed down to check out the gazebo and today 4 people on on seadoo were buzzing by, spotted the gazebo, slowed down and then turned around and actually stopped to have a good look. Obviously, it is going to get some curious folks checking it out, and wait until we get the lights in there reflecting off the under side of the roof!

Not a lot left to do on the gazebo - some can't bve done until we get the door, which hopefully will be Monday or Tuesday.

In the late afternoon I went out in the kayak to have a look at it from the water. Looks equally great, so I went for my camera and took few pictures from out off the point - they are first in the group of photos here.

Gazebo siding

I arrived yesterday to find Rick and Ron already here and working on the gazebo.

They accomplished a lot yesterday, though it was laying he floor and putting on the "skirts", so not particularly showy but a great job to have completed. Having the floor in made it much easier to do the work today on the knee wall sills and shoring up the racking strength of the south wall with T bars.

Also, they found when they arrived that the whole structure had shifted slightly, likely due to the wind. The curved roof may well act as a bit of a sail in a high wind so they put some anchor bars into the ground at one corner to prevent movement.

Then early afternoon they put on the corner covers, added the Tyvec and the showy bit, the cedar siding on the east and west knee walls. The south knee wall is open so will not have siding except over part of the "skirt". The north wall siding will have to wait until the electrical work is done and the door arrives.

The photos are pretty self explanatory.