Crater Lake, Oregon vacation property build thread - BASE CAMP ⛺️

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Crater Lake, Oregon vacation property build thread - BASE CAMP ⛺️

Your first mention of ranch gate with the materials pix on previous page... But yeah, me wrong, the pix were T's gate.

And the demo pix are what stuck in my mind..

 

[Hojack]

I want to build a gate for my entryway…

I really like this one.

 

[Hojack]

@RredFJ40 i keep forgetting to hit you up when I down in Klamath County. We need to meet up. I’ll be bringing my 60 next trip and my boat!

Snowing today at the property…

Owe well… it’s great to be home with the family for Mother’s Day.

Happy Mother’s Day followers!

 

[Hojack]

Loaded up the Lodgepole logs from the property and took to my friend Jim’s house to mill the logs into interior panels.

Milled into 3/4” x 8” pine boards.

Crazy I made about $300 in pine boards in less than an hour.

 

[Hojack]

Been due for an update. Summer has been full of camping trips keeping us very busy.
Ordered my sink for the property. Got a kitchen sink for the bathhouse as it’ll serve multiple needs. Started building the cabinet this weekend for the sink. The wood is from the logs I milled that I brought back from the property.

 

[Hojack]

Decided on a butcher block counter top.

Biscuit jointer showed up the other day. Perfect timing for making the cabinet. Ripped some 3.5” boards and used biscuits to hold the boards together.

Trying to decide the cabinet face design.

This was just scrap from ripping the boards through the table saw.

 

[Hojack]

Cabinet doors were rock solid this morning after the biscuit joints and liquid nails. Had some scrap wood and decided to go with this cabinet face design.

 

[Hojack]

Worked on the cabinet after work and my son helped me sand with the belt sander.

 

[Hojack]

This compact fridge is on sale at Home Depot. Good reviews.

Galanz 7.6 cu. ft. Retro Mini Fridge with Dual Door True Freezer in Red GLR76TRDER

Galanz 7.6 cu. ft. Retro style top freezer refrigerator can store and keep cool snacks, beverages and more. Best of all, this refrigerator-freezer has the look and feel of the fabulous old days, but has

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[Hojack]

A local from the CL property called and needed a pump installed in his newer well. Didn’t want to pass up the opportunity so went over Saturday morning to put in his pump system.

Dawn breaking over Mt. Hood

Sunrise over Warm Springs

Stunning shot over Smith Rock State Park.

New lot for sale near mine with well and septic already installed.

 

[Hojack]

After a half day installing James pump system I started installing the interior pine paneling. Pretty awesome that this wood came from this property.

Upper left water heater connection. Bottom center is hot and cold connection for sink cabinet I’m building with stop and drain ball valves to winterize.

So enjoyable and rewarding.

 

[Hojack]

Dinner my wife sent was delicious.

Turning in for the night.

 

[Hojack]

With power I ran the well pump the entire time.

Tamarack trees are still alive! These trees lose their needles and become golden yellow orange in fall.

So green this year.

Log pile just waiting to become lumber

 

[Hojack]

Installed the shower mixing valve this morning

Tile will be coming up soon.

Walter came by. We walked his 2 new lots with well and container tiny home.

 

[Hojack]

Marazzi VitaElegante Ardesia 12 in. x 24 in. Porcelain Floor and Wall Tile (15.6 sq. ft. / case) ULRV1224HD1PR - The Home Depot

This MARAZZI VitaElegante Ardesia Porcelain Floor and Wall Tile is designed as a modern interpretation of classic stones. Offers durability.

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Really like this tile. Would look great on the bathhouse.
Thinking about installing this corrugated metal above the tile to the ceiling??? I have some left over from raised garden beds I built this spring.

 

[Hojack]

I’m really starting to think I’m going to go the propane tankless route.

Amazon product ASIN B0084CPEFW

 

[ntsqd]

We looked into them to replace the aging WH in our house and the code mandated retrofit meant that we wouldn't recover our costs for decades.

In your situation I'd guess that it is MUCH more economically feasible. Would it be just the one servicing every hot water demand, or several of them located at the demands?

 

[Hojack]

We looked into them to replace the aging WH in our house and the code mandated retrofit meant that we wouldn't recover our costs for decades.

In your situation I'd guess that it is MUCH more economically feasible. Would it be just the one servicing every hot water demand, or several of them located at the demands?

I got the electric water heater for free from a customer. It’s all great until you realize every bit of space is crucial in a 100 sq. ft. building. The on demand tankless would be a winner providing instant hot water with no tank to heat prior to arriving to the property.

 

[PIP]

That's a tough one. You need a big water heater for a shower, but you have no space for one and you don't want it running when you're gone for a few months.

I'm not a big fan of filling (or forgetting to fill) a big propane tank for basic necessities though. I've had propane on a building I leased and I really hated it. It was inefficient, it put tons of moisture into my building and everything about propane is expensive.

If you have no other reason for propane I'd be inclined to stay electric. A large water heater for the shower could be mounted externally to the building, on the wall, in an insulated "bump out" with an access door on the inside. Mount a small electric one under the sink just for hand washing. The little one stays on all the time, it costs nothing to run and helps keep the inside of your building from freezing in the winter. When you arrive, you turn on the big one and it's hot in 2 hours. I've had a few of the tiny undersink electric waterheaters and they're great. They use very little electricity.

 

[1911]

I've had a propane-fired tankless water heater in my shop/apartment for four years and love it - would never go back to a conventional tank heater. We're putting two or three of them in the house we're building.

You do want to backflush and de-scale them once a year or so, but that's easy to do.

You don't want them to ever freeze; they make outside models with built-in heating elements to keep them from freezing.