After Sarah left, it was time to start working. We had recently had a small addition built on the cabin and it was my job to paint the interrior and put down the new flooring. Painting was straight forward, but I had to learn a bit to install the floating, laminate wood flooring. Along the way, I had to replace the toilette, which was crakced and leaking, and the shower head (which I just wanted to replace so I could enjoy my showers). The toilette would've been straight forward, but I replaced the seals in the tank twice before realizing that a hairline crack in the tank was actually what was causing the leak. The shower head was also not so straight forward. the shower head arm threads had corroded to the copper pipe in the wall and the pipe broke when I was turning the arm to remove it. So, then I had to break the tile from around the shower head arm and cut through a 2x4 to access the broken pipe. I then got my first experience with sweating and soldering pipe. I had to solder on a new threaded connection to the elbow inside the wall. It was dificult to work in the small space, but for my first time sweating pipe, I think I did alright. It isn't pretty, and I probably used twice as much solder as I needed, but it doesn't leak. I secured the new shower head arm, installed a new tile, and have since been enjoying great showers.
The other major job I've been tasked with is repainting the outside of the cabin. This requires scraping the peeling paint off, cutting out the old caulking from around the windows and doors, recaulking all the gaps, and priming the wood. At this point, I've finished scraping, caulking, and priming one side of the cabin. It looks a thousand times better than it did a few weeks ago. Maybe we should leave the color confederate gray? I'm currently working on scraping the front of the cabin so that I can get it primed and painted while the weather is still good in the mornings.
Here's a picture of progress scraping one side:
And that side primed:
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