Stomping Ground: May 2025
Hard to stay away!
Pam and I were thinking about doing some hiking and stopping at camp to see the new bath house and the latest 4 cabin village that were going to be ready for the 2025 season. George go wind of this and let me know he had a project that could use my help if we had time. We talked over what he wanted and I sent ahead a list of materials I’d need. The project was building a counter and sink in the dining hall for the water station where the kids filled pitchers of water at meal time. This was similar to a sink I’d built for the Getaway (aka infirmary) with the added complication that we needed to plumb in the water to and from the ice machine.
Pam had painted the rainbow stairs for the first time several years earlier and Laura so liked the job she asked Pam to tackle it again.
There are two sets of stairs and Pam was pleased to be done.
She blocked the stairs and warned off the few people at camp to let the paint dry thoroughly.
George had a small crew in replacing damaged boards including where the new counter wanted to go.
To save money George had the floor left mostly open where the counters would cover it. So the first job was to square up the space where the counters would sit by cutting away the ends of the new boards.
George had built a small barn door to cover the dish sink window just to the left of the new counter. So, the new counter/sink/faucet all had to sit low enough to let the barn door slide over it. So, step one was to take a little off the bottom of the two base cabinets that made up the ends of the counter.
The drain lines from the ice maker had to feed into the sink drain plumbing. Heatlh code says you have to have a funnel drain (i.e. an anti backup function to avoid contamination of the ice bin). A good idea but who knew. Getting from the rather low drain point on the ice chest to the drain under the new sink and including the air gap was a bit tricky. Three designs later it worked. Plumbing!
George wanted a nice butcher block counter so, we cut it to size, cut the sink hole and Pam finished it all along with her stair job. Note the sink has a nice high goose neck for filling pitchers.
The center of the counter had custom built face panel, door, and floor to accommodate all the strange plumbing and leave lots of storage. All pocket hole joinery to keep things moving.
Final product. The ice machine will get tied in on the right after the new floors are finished.
Another look at the final product with George's new door and the pressure and drain lines for the ice maker waiting for final hook up.
George and John talking about the rest of the plans to dress up the dinning hall; refinish floors, repair/replace roof boards and replace roof over repairs.