Howdy everyone, I signed up for this site a little while ago and check in every so often, but haven’t posted until now. We’ve only been in our house for a couple years now, and I’ve got some ideas for it but it’s a little overwhelming. My husband works all the time, so it’s really just me doing the work to make something happen on these projects, but what I lack in strength and know-how, I make up for in stubbornness, (not that that’s always a good thing!).
My big projects are an off-grid cabin we have a ways in the woods, that I had to completely gut. The previous owner wasn’t up here much, and the cabin had a roof leak so everything in it was covered in black mold and mildew. I pulled out the bunk beds, and cabinetry, it even had a shower stall and a couple sinks and a toilet, but there’s no power hook up and the water intake is a pump from the brook, which he fed into a shed with a water heater. I guess he ran it all off a portable generator. But I got rid of everything from the cabin, even the drywall and insulation. It was gross. The mice had been loving it up in there for decades. But it’s down to the frame, and aside from the faint smell of mouse pee and a few rotting ceiling supports, it’s okay. I’ve no idea what to do next with it, and no money to hire anyone, so I’m just messing around on my own. Not planning on hooking up the water pump again anytime soon, so might just lay some cheap flooring down in the little bathroom and put a cassette toilet in first, since I’m not a guy and dislike squatting in the woods to pee! Then I’ll figure out the insulation and walls and ceiling I guess.
The other big project is the broken pond by the cabin. There’s a broken and wadded up liner in it that I think I’m going to try and cut into small pieces and take out when the summer sun evaporates all the water. It’s gonna be gross and probably very hard to do, so maybe if I can just get the edges where the liner is all wadded up and horrible looking, then I can put the rest off until next year.
And then around our actual house I’m trying to figure out what to do with garden beds. Previous owner just liked wildflowers so he let it all get wild, which is pretty, but I can’t eat what’s growing in there, so gotta make room for tomatoes etc. and I want to get some areas of the woods cleared out just for room for my son and dogs to play. The problem is, the ground out there dips and rises pretty dramatically, so I need to come up with a way to fill some spots in. I was thinking of doing kinda a hugelkulture style fill-in, since I have tons of wood and branches. Maybe fill the bottom of the dips in with that, and haul in some dirt to put on top, and see what happens.
Anyway, looking forward to participating in the community. Lots of smart people in here!
My big projects are an off-grid cabin we have a ways in the woods, that I had to completely gut. The previous owner wasn’t up here much, and the cabin had a roof leak so everything in it was covered in black mold and mildew. I pulled out the bunk beds, and cabinetry, it even had a shower stall and a couple sinks and a toilet, but there’s no power hook up and the water intake is a pump from the brook, which he fed into a shed with a water heater. I guess he ran it all off a portable generator. But I got rid of everything from the cabin, even the drywall and insulation. It was gross. The mice had been loving it up in there for decades. But it’s down to the frame, and aside from the faint smell of mouse pee and a few rotting ceiling supports, it’s okay. I’ve no idea what to do next with it, and no money to hire anyone, so I’m just messing around on my own. Not planning on hooking up the water pump again anytime soon, so might just lay some cheap flooring down in the little bathroom and put a cassette toilet in first, since I’m not a guy and dislike squatting in the woods to pee! Then I’ll figure out the insulation and walls and ceiling I guess.
The other big project is the broken pond by the cabin. There’s a broken and wadded up liner in it that I think I’m going to try and cut into small pieces and take out when the summer sun evaporates all the water. It’s gonna be gross and probably very hard to do, so maybe if I can just get the edges where the liner is all wadded up and horrible looking, then I can put the rest off until next year.
And then around our actual house I’m trying to figure out what to do with garden beds. Previous owner just liked wildflowers so he let it all get wild, which is pretty, but I can’t eat what’s growing in there, so gotta make room for tomatoes etc. and I want to get some areas of the woods cleared out just for room for my son and dogs to play. The problem is, the ground out there dips and rises pretty dramatically, so I need to come up with a way to fill some spots in. I was thinking of doing kinda a hugelkulture style fill-in, since I have tons of wood and branches. Maybe fill the bottom of the dips in with that, and haul in some dirt to put on top, and see what happens.
Anyway, looking forward to participating in the community. Lots of smart people in here!
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