Mark Dixon

Chalet Build

An album showing the progress of our work on our chalet in the Laurentians, Quebec, Canada.

End table - Maple

End table - Maple

Stairs

Finishing touches still to do

First railing almost done

Stairs

Getting ready for the treads

Stairs

Stairs

Stairs

Morning bedroom view

Splitting

Wood stacked

Starting the stairs

Railing going up

Deck is finished - just need a step

My hole jig

Deck - almost done

Higher than expected - will need a rail :(

Helpers

Deck - starting to add boards - more bracing to come

Deck started

Screen Porch (getting it done before the arrival)

Screen porch done!

Tapped

Boiling sap...

Sunset hike - looking down on chalet

Winter day

P installing tile

P installing backsplash

Backsplash finished

Started the bunk beds

Bunk beds

Bunk beds

Bunk beds finished

End table finished

Back porch

Pantry door is hung

Pantry doorjam & shelves

Pantry

P made a nice night table

New steps

Need new steps

Wood piled

Wood for Winter

Fall colours

Slowly adding the amenities

Bathroom is pretty much done

We finally finished the shower!

Forest green

Winter is coming

First fire in the wood stove

Fall colours from my morning coffee spot

Almost half the rock spread

Island finished

Island with flowers

Crushed rock delivery

Island in process

Island counter in progress

Missing 100 ft2 of siding and my temporary door

Siding is done

Siding is done

Foggy Morning

Foggy morning, view from the road

Island

Siding

Siding - bit more than half done

Plumbing dry run

Siding - we decided not to do it ourselves

Starting the kitchen

Back porch

Thunder in the distance

Door hung - just needs a knob

Finally a bed that is not blown up

Unpacked

Girls room - built-in bunk beds in the future

Table

Couch is unpacked

Making door jams from scratch is a long process

Pine flooring is varnished

Mezzannine flooring

View from the road at night

Hallelujah, running water and a toilet.

A chair, a light and a stove

A lot of activity on the back porch

I started the mezzanine flooring this weekend - knotty pine

Siding shipment arrived on Friday

Went to Gatineau today to pick up our flooring and door order

Work bench

Vacation work - got some temp railings in

Vacation work - trim started

Vacation work - painting trim

From back porch looking south

Mudroom/entry

Entry looking to porch (door on back order)

I need to put up a temporary railing

Stairs & two windows

Evening light in main room

Black doors

Unprotected floor texture from weather and scrapes

No cell service but satellite internet

Rough stairs without railing

Looking down from mezzanine

Girls in girls' room

Study area

Kitchen window

Bathroom

Stairs, pantry & utilities (water pump to come)

Drywall is on

Drywall is on

Mezzanine with interior walls

View from the lower firepit

Cleaning around the cabin

Porch structure is in

Stairs

East side

Supper in our porch

Master bedroom

Windows!

Field is growing well

Front & side patio doors

Bathroom in the corner, door to porch

View from girls room

View from our room

Construction

Cabin

Girls' room

Our room

Looking east

Living area

Back

Front

Front

Front

Grass and wild flowers seeding is coming in

View from north side, by stream

Main beam (from mezzanine)

Looking down from mezzanine

View from kitchen area

Walls ready to go up

West wall - window in staircase

Wall construction

May 30

Back door leading to screened in porch

Front area (completed wall on left)

Front

Slab is poured

Site plan

3D render - south

3D render - east

Plans - west elevation

Getting the septic field/mound ready for seeding

Ready for slab pour | in-floor heating wired

Foundation - ready for pour [on May 18th fingers crossed]

Foundation

Septic field finished

Septic tank covered

Rough plumbing started & sonotubes for porch under the black bags

Rough plumbing started

Drive retaining rocks installed

Drive

Septic tank

Septic field (larger than we thought)

Snow is melting and the lot is a bit of a mess - lots of work to do

Plans - been on our coffee table for quite some time!

Backfill done, water & sewer lines added

Backfill done

Cabin - March 13

Drive looking towards chemin Jackson

Foundation from front - facing north

One of the wood piles

Foundation - footing for post

Looking towards stream

Foundation - looking north

Cabin

Cabin

Foundation footings poured (under insulating blankets)

Foundation footings - 2 corners are sitting on bedrock

Footings - this edge sitting on bedrock

Foundation footings

After the blasting

Cabin area

Drilling for dynamite

Dynamite machine

Explosives

Boom

Dynamite

Dynamite machine (video)

Digging the drive (video)

Cabin clearing (video)

Excavation of the foundation (video)

Dynamiting pads

Prepping for foundation work

Cabin clearing

Chemin and skiing

Excavation

Excavation

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View from cabin (tape shows front and west walls)

Scrapping topsoil

Chemin

View from cabin towards road

Peaceful stream

Lots of earth to move to get the required slope

First of many trips

Chemin

Lot topography

Possible path of drive from road (video)

Chalet location (video)

Looking up to chalet spot (from East)

Emplacement du chalet

Possible chemin

View from road

Test du sol

Test du sol

Test du sol

Test du sol