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Today, we're here
in front of our camp,

goes back to our family
till... uh, 1871.

And you and Dad worked on it?

We renovated it
quite a few years ago.

Right now, the ants
have been tearing it apart.

Yikes!

[Ryan] We're not in yet.
She's not going in.

I don't know if he's got-- had that
much practice on this, you guys.

We might be hitting the camp.

Oh, gosh.

-[Eric chuckles softly] Great. Oh, yeah.
-Oh... look at this.

- [Pam] It looks gorgeous!
- This looks amazing!

- Unbelievable.
- [Becky] This is so beautiful.

[Chase] Welcome back!

[Ryan] Nice day for a walk.

Yeah, it's beautiful out.

Why did you bring me here?

Well... we have
a little history here.

My brother and my father
used to work...

on the Foster's camp down here,

and I have a feeling that my
brother might be up to something.

Is that Chase mowing the lawn?

[Ryan] Oh, Chase is mowing
memory lane for you.

[Ashley] There we go.
It's perfect.

- [Ryan] He's gonna give us a ride.
- [Ashley] He knows.

He has more of
the memories than I do.

[Chase] We're in Manchester
today to meet the Foster siblings.

They've got a camp that my
family has worked for generations.

[Ashley] But it's not
family camp.

- Nope.
- It was just worked on by our family.

Mowing memory lane for us?

This used to be my summer job.

- Miss those days?
- No.

- [chuckles] - Actually,
kind of a little bit.

So, what's going on?

Um, we are headed down to meet

Pam, Becky and Eric Foster,

old, old family friends.

- [chuckles] - Their parents are
old family friends with our parents.

We're headed down
to check out their camp.

[Ashley] And you and Dad
worked on it?

[Chase] We renovated it
quite a few years ago.

You want to drive?

Why don't you have some
bonding moments Ryan in the--

- It's in neutral.
- Okay.

Is this the gas paddle?

Yeah, that little square.

-Right on your right. The little square.
-What's the brake?

- What's the brake?
- The big pedals above it.

Nice job, Ash.

I do remember this place.

It used to be a beach club,

lot of my aunts
and uncles and my father

would lifeguard here,
would babysit here,

would work
the concession stand here.

Then, when they wanted to turn
it into a camp, my father came.

Chase did a lot of demo,

and then my father came
and helped rebuild it.

- Hey.
- Hey.

- How's it going?
- Good to see you guys,

- Yeah.
- Hi, I'm Pam.

I'm Becky Foster.

And I'm Eric Foster.

Today we're here
in front of our camp,

goes back to our family
till... uh, 1871.

Back in the '90s, Eric,
Chase's and Ashley's dad,

uh, they fixed this up
for our generation,

so that we would
really enjoy the camp

and they brought
it back to life.

This used to be like a summer...

Yeah, that's right.

1965 to '74,
there were 100 members.

Usually people from Augusta,
family members of the beach club.

And it used to get crazy at
night out here, I'm just saying.

But during the day,
it was a family place.

- And... it was just great.
- [chuckling]

- So, fast forward a few...
- Yeah, yeah, then...

it's funny 'cause when
my father was my age,

he wanted to make the camp

nicer for all of us.

What are you looking
to get done now?

[Eric] Number one, bathroom.

For whatever reason,
at 2:00 a.m.,

we all just have to go
to the bathroom,

and it's the worst walk.

[Ashley] Wait,
where's the bathroom?

- [Becky] Yeah... yeah.
- [Eric] Up the hill.

- You get up and go there at 2:00 a.m.?
- [Pam] Yeah, yeah.

[Eric] Yeah, my wife
doesn't like that so much.

[chuckling]

Um, Eric found that--

That railing thing
at Augusta dump.

- You know, it's been there for...
- [Ryan] The course.

[Eric] You know, and then
he made the cement stairs

which are still functional,
they're just all, kind of--

- You know, how they've eroded over time.
- [Pam] Yeah.

And then just more of a cozy,
comfortable inside, you know,

the floor-- the walls
and the floors and everything.

Um, better access and view
of the water.

It's weird, the windows are kind of
high, maybe, I'm not sure why. But

when you're in the camp, you don't
always feel like you're on the water,

which is kind of a weird thing.

[Becky] Two bedrooms at least.

Yeah, you'll see. The two
bedrooms that are there now,

it's pretty bad.

So, if you have company,

you can hear
everything next door.

[Eric] So, one of the things
in the camp is

the Foster's Restaurant sign.

So, that goes way back.

It used to be Packard's
Restaurant in the '20s,

then my grandfather, right
out Cony, got working there.

And, eventually,
they let him run it.

And then, eventually,
it became Foster's Restaurant.

Probably in the '40s
or '50s or something.

- It became Foster's Restaurant.
- Yup, that's right.

So, it was a very famous
restaurant in Augusta.

[Chase] So, besides
the Foster's sign,

is there anything else
that's sacred in the camp

that you don't want to change?

The window.

- Okay.
- That window is really important.

Um, your dad put that there,
he found it somewhere,

and he thought it would add...

First of all,
it adds some light,

'cause it is a dark camp.

And it just looks-- you know,
makes it look pretty.

- So, that would be a thing.
- [Chase] Okay.

And there's also a jelly cabinet

that's from our
great grandparents,

uh, that's-- it's just hanging
on the wall in there,

just a little cabinet.

- [Pam] It's purple now.
- [Chase] Your mom's favorite color.

- Yeah, exactly.
- [chuckles]

You remember that.
That's right.

She painted it, Chase.

You guys are okay with

losing your camp
for most of the summer?

- Yeah.
- Yeah. We're good.

Okay, what do you have
to put into the project?

- [Eric] 35.
- Okay.

- [Eric] And if it goes up to 40, we-- it would be fine.
- Okay.

We're ready to get started.
We just need a set of keys.

- [chuckles]
- Okay.

- Great.
- Great.

- Thank you, guys.
- Bye.

- Good to see y'all.
- See you soon!

[Ryan] Memory lane
to a time capsule.

[Ashley] It's so weird
the way it's chopped up.

Bedroom there.

[Chase] We could check it out.

It's bigger than it feels, huh?

- Than from the outside.
- It is.

Yes, it definitely
is bigger than it feels.

Okay, we've got this hallway

with a weird access to the loft,

jelly cabinet that they
really wanted to keep.

And this bedroom.

Place is long.
How is it going down there?

I know, right? It's crazy.

It's way-- it looks...

It's a lot bigger than it looks.

It's a lot bigger than it looks.

[Chase] On the inside
of the camp,

we are going to just
better utilize the space,

better access to the loft,

move that doorway from
the bedroom to the deck

into a more common area.

Get bigger windows that take
advantage of the water view,

to let more light in.

And we definitely need to get
a real bathroom in this camp.

[Ryan] Yeah, this has
a lot of potential.

It's not gonna
take much to... Wow!

- This is big.
- [Ashley] Oh, yeah,

this is a weird way
to get to the deck, huh?

[Chase] So, this will be our
biggest challenge probably.

Figuring out how to get the doorway
out of the bedroom onto the deck.

[Ryan] Right.

[Ashley] Change
the bedroom location.

[Chase] I mean,
it's a great deck,

great location,
you're right on the water.

[Ashley] Yeah.

[Chase] But you kind--
They had to cut into the room

to get the height,
whereas right here, you know,

you've got a dormer
where you could go up--

[Ryan] Move the door down?

You know, you move
it down to here.

That's gonna make all
the difference in the world.

Give you more privacy.

[Chase] On the outside of the camp,
we are going to level out the landscaping,

refurbish the metal handrail
down to the water,

use their 30% one-time expansion

to take their half bath
and make it a full bath,

which allows us to install a second
octagonal window in the gable end.

On the water side, we're gonna
shift the deck door

from the bedroom
to the living room.

And because we're
moving the door,

we're also going
to move the deck,

which allows for better
access to the lake.

And then we'll replace
the old windows

and give it a bright
new paint job.

Well, it's gonna be a fun one.

All right, I gotta
finish mowing that lawn.

All right. We'll call the guys
and come back.

[Ashley] This is the camp.

Does it look like you remember?

Not at all.

- Not at all?
- It's kind of overgrown.

There used to be not many trees.

Today we are at the Foster Camp,

and my Aunt Sharon
and Uncle Leigh

are joining us for demo.

[Chase] Kind of pull
back some trim,

pull back the paneling,

see what's going on
behind everything.

My Uncle Leigh is one of my
father's younger brothers.

Leigh also was a lifeguard
at the camp

back when it was
a public swimming area.

- [Ashley] All right, let's go to work.
- [Sharon] Okay.

[Chase] Today should be
a really quick, fast demo.

The Fosters got all
their stuff out of there.

So, really we're just gonna
get in here, rip and tear...

and try and expose everything.

- [thuds]
- I got it.

Mirror, mirror on the wall,
who's the fairest of them all?

[Ashley] So my dad was
the one that did the remodel,

um, on this camp, originally,
in the '90s,

and so,

it's special to us that
we have Leigh and Sharon here

to rip and tear into it.

We could the see the examples
of how my dad built.

I used to work with Eric
and he'd say,

"Oh, yeah, I turned
the power off and...

you can take that
wall stuff down."

And next thing I know,
I had sparks flying everywhere

and he said, "Well...

maybe it's
a different circuit."

[Ashley] Instantly, Leigh and
Sharon walked in and could recognize

the distinct building
style that my dad had.

- [Chase] This is pretty typical of dad.
- What?

Sheet rock with no
mudding and taping.

[Ashley chuckles] Yeah.

Instead of
mudding and taping it,

he put a little
wooden strip up it.

Which I think is kind of clever.

[chuckles softly]

Don't you?

I hate mudding and taping.
That was the worst part.

[Chase] My father was very
resourceful. He had tricks...

to keep cost down,

including two-piecing,
three-piecing trim.

Also, using sheet rock

and not worrying about
mudding and taping

and the time it took for that.

Sheet rock. Chase.

Why do you think
Dad put up sheet rock

instead of pine?

'Cause it was cheaper.

It was interesting
to do this cabin

because it was put
together like a puzzle.

So, people thought
Eric was, you know,

"Well, Eric's not
a finished carpenter."

But Eric had a great
mind and vision.

- So it was very logical...
- [Leigh] Yeah.

how to take it off
and, consequently,

you could take boards
off in entire pieces.

[screams]

[Ashley] So, my part today is

taking down all the sheet rock.

So, I take out the screws and
rip this piece of sheetrock back,

and I see something terrifying.

- No!
- [Sharon] No, it's fine.

[Ashley] Nope, I'm done.

[Ashley] It's the first week
here at the Foster Camp

in Manchester, Maine.

Just to make sure
there's not a spider...

house behind here.

I saw a spider
and I was making sure

that there wasn't
a whole spider family.

'Cause you never know.

It was built from scraps.

Um, you know,
there was a lot of pieces.

I saw one piece of door trim
that was four-pieced.

You know, instead of one
long one, he used four pieces.

He 45'd all his cuts.

And until you ripped it apart,

you would never know that
it was four pieces of wood.

[Chase] Just 'cause
there's no door

doesn't mean
you need to come in.

[clattering]

Yeah, Gus.

Taking off the final piece,

this jelly cabinet that
the family wanted to save.

There were a couple of things that the
family mentioned they wanted to save.

One was the octagon window,

the Foster's sign,

the third was the jelly cabinet
that was mounted on the wall

painted purple.

There you go.

[Ashley]
Medicine cabinet complete.

My work is done here.

My work is done here.

[Chase] So far so good,
you know,

no real rot issues.

You know, everything
looks solid, there's no...

bounce to the floors,
anything like that.

Next big thing is going to be

pulling off
the small bathroom space

to frame up something bigger

to get a full bathroom in there.

We'll get Doug out here to
come up with a plumbing plan

to get a pump system in,
but everything looks solid.

[Ryan] One great thing
about this camp,

is that they actually have

a little bit of their
30% expansion left.

So, we're gonna utilize
coming off the back here.

You know, any camp built at,
I think, after 1988,

you could only get
a 30% expansion.

And I believe they were allowed an
8 x 8 x 10 square foot in high area.

Lot of work to do coming up,

but this was-- just getting
over here ahead of time

was really important.

We're just gonna
excavate this some.

I guess it's a tool or some
people say it's a toy.

I've used some of
the machines before, you know,

so it's-- a little more
time will be good, um,

but it's a game changer
for us, you know.

We don't have to wait for
Francis or someone to do this.

Uh, as long as I just
get some more practice

and don't hurt myself,
it'll be okay.

Yeah, you gotta break it in
a little bit.

So, that's why I picked a day
when no one was around.

So I'm gonna be over here,
I'm gonna pull it all back some,

I'm gonna dig a hole
for the pump station

and then we'll start rebuilding
over that and go from there.

After today,
we'll get the guys over,

we'll start framing
out the floor system

and then we'll go from there.
Then we'll tear onto the roof.

Great spot.

Good thing it's on a lake.
It's hot.

- [Jedi] Hopefully this fog sticks around for a while.
- Yeah.

It's the second week
at the Foster Camp.

Ashley and Ryan are not here.

Instead of having my aunt
and uncle, I got the, uh,

actual builders
here with me, so...

We've got Jedi, Dixie,
BT and Jay,

and we're gonna
focus on the bathroom floor,

framing up the new
patio slider door.

Ooh, we can save that 4 x 4.

Whoa!

So, right now as it stands,

the doorway to the deck
is in the bedroom.

They ended up cutting in
to fit the door.

So, what we're gonna do
is shift the doorway

into the main living area,
we'll put a slider door.

[banging]

And so,
I'm just stripping this back

in order to bring
the wall back out...

to the same plane
as the rest of the camp.

You gain room in the bedroom,

you gain privacy in the bedroom.

You gain a entrance onto the deck
that can actually be used regularly.

A nice slider...

is gonna let more light
into the main camp

and make that part feel larger.

So, I think
the benefit is there.

[Jedi] Right now,
we're tearing this all back,

because we're gonna put
a big sliding glass door here.

Thankfully, we tore it all back.

[scratching]

Because right now, the ants
have been tearing it apart.

So, we've gotta
deal with this issue.

[Chase] Up in Maine,

we don't have termites,
we don't have carpenter ants.

They do the same
amount of damage.

It's just one is a larger ant.

I mean, carpenter ants,
they like wood, moisture,

and that front had it both.

Oh, it just gets
better and better.

Yikes!

Oh, wow.

We found a home.

[Chase] Jedi was
peeling back the walls

and found an active
carpenter ant colony.

[Jedi] Well, right now,
we're tearing this all back

because we're gonna put a big
sliding glass door here.

Um, thankfully,
we tore it all back.

[scratching]

Because, right now, the ants
have been tearing it apart.

So, we've gotta
deal with this issue.

Thankfully, it's not gonna
be much of an issue

'cause this is all coming
out to begin with.

[Chase] Eradication.

[Jedi] Eradication.
They're gonna...

start building a new home,
'cause this one's done for.

Luckily, that entire
section got removed

and trashed. So...

hopefully, that takes care
of that. No more ants.

While Jedi and I are working
on the waterside of the camp,

Dixie's working on the backside,

adding the addition
for the new bathroom.

So, the addition
is going to be 8 x 10.

It will have, you know,
a shower, toilet,

vanity, closet for
the hot water heater,

and do a pitched roof,

run it right into the existing
peak of the roof,

which will also benefit the loft

and give it a little bit more
space in the loft up above.

156. This is 154.

So, we need to shift
this way one inch.

Uh, 153 and 7/8ths, so let's put
some diagonal bracing on here quick.

So, that just
ensures that we're...

this is a square...

uh, true square.

So what we'll do is we'll just

temporarily put
some diagonals in,

so our framing does not move

when we go to, um,
install our pucks.

While Dixie, Jay and BT
were working on

framing up the platform
for the new addition,

Jedi and I
were working out front

and the goal is to get

the doorway onto the deck

out of the bedroom
and into the main living area.

And that involves just,
you know,

cutting everything back

and figuring out how
to head everything off

to support the roof system

and get a good-sized door

out onto the deck just
to make it more useful.

[clanking]

[Chase] What a difference
that makes.

[Jedi]
Right, it opened it right up.

So, we've stripped back just
about as far as we need to. I'm just...

pulling that deck board,

getting this prepped and ready,

so when it comes time
to move the deck,

it's just a matter of

unattaching it,
sliding it that way.

Next step, Jedi is working
on building a header.

Do you wanna slide it?
We should be looking good.

[Dixie] Looks good.
It's all done.

It's actually not a deck.

It's what you would call a, um,

subfloor for a building.

- Are you just floored by this?
- [Chase] I'm floored.

[Dixie] We're gonna frame
this outside wall, too.

[Chase] The bathroom had
a small wash closet,

I guess, is the best
you'd call it.

It had a shower and a sink.

But you would have to go
up the hill to the bathroom.

[Dixie] What?
You got a saloon door?

[Chase] Yeah.

Bathroom door.

We'll get Doug in here,

do the plumbing, and we'll get
a real bathroom in here,

so you don't have to
leave the camp at night.

[Dixie] What do you think?

- [Chase] Think it looks great.
- We done for the day?

We're done when sweat
gets right down to there.

- [spits]
- [laughing]

We're done. [chuckles]

Next thing, really, is just
figure out this roof pitch.

How we want to tie it in.

You know, I think
we're looking good.

- [Jedi] Yup.
- Nice work.

[Dixie] Ready, Zeus?
Let's go swimming.

[Chase] It's week three
at the Foster Camp,

and we're working on
getting the exterior

wrapped up
as quickly as possible

so that we can start painting it

and then get the new roof on.

One, two... [grunts]

[Chase] We ended up
moving the deck because,

originally, the door to
the deck was in the bedroom.

We moved that door
into the main living area.

So, we shifted
the deck accordingly

so it lined up
with the door and...

it wasn't looking
into the bedroom.

[whirring]

It gave the bedroom
more space and more privacy.

[Chase] The guys were able to
get the bedroom windows reframed,

they got the deck moved,

they got the new
slider door installed.

And so, today, they're
working on getting the front

re-sided and closed in.

You know, get the soffits
all taken care of

so that we can get in here,

you know, spray
everything out, paint the trim,

and then it's ready
to put the new roof on.

[Dixie] So, today,
we're here at Fosters.

Boys have put a good
charge on things,

sidings going back on.

Big project for us today is

framing the doghouse dormer.

And what we're
working on today is

we're figuring out
our rafter detail

for our addition.

Um, it's a little
tricky because,

uh, we have another roof line
in which we're coming into.

So, essentially, we're
gonna have two valleys.

So, what we're
working right now is

BT is cutting
our common rafters.

So, we're gonna string
all of our commons

until we get to
the end of the wall

and then, at that point,
they'll be our valley rafters.

So, there'll be

a compound miter cut on
the roof end and, uh, just

a miter cut on the top end.

So, it will be
a pretty technical, uh,

few rafters that we're
gonna have to figure out.

[Chase] We're probably about
halfway through the build

at the Foster camp
in Manchester.

And, right now, we're working
on getting the exterior

completely wrapped up.

Jake's here painting the body,
painting the trim.

BT and Jay are working on
getting the soffit trim finished.

Nick's working on...

finishing up the siding,

get that octagon window in

on the gable end of
the new bathroom addition.

The story goes that my father
found the original octagon window

on the waterside
of the camp and put it in.

I had a octagon window in my
barn that I've had for years,

wondering what to
do with it, so,

you know, it's a pretty
steep gable pitch

in the bathroom addition.

So I decided to put my own
octagon window up in there.

We're gonna start working
on the floor system

for the loft area.

We've got a 6 x 6
that we gotta get in place.

And we'll notch out
for the beams.

From here on out, the build is
pretty much straightforward.

I think, the big unknown
as this point is landscaping.

We've gotta get somebody in here

to start the landscaping.

There's a lot of terrace levels

that need to be rebuilt.

So, we've gotta
kind of be out of their way.

So, that's why we're trying
to get the exterior wrapped up,

so we can get
a landscaper in here

to do what we need
and not be in their way.

[Ryan] This past weekend,
our buddy Jake Audet

came up with
his landscaping crew,

and they did a heck of a job.

They really terraced it out,
gave them a really nice fire pit

and kind of made the entrance

a lot safer
and easier to get to.

And also, they stopped the
flow of water coming down in.

They did an awesome job
on landscaping.

We're gonna get
more done in this week

than we have
probably the whole job.

[Dixie] Today we're
here at the Fosters'

on beautiful Cobbosseecontee.

Josh and I and Dakota have
been working on laying the floors.

We got the two bedroom
floors laid this morning.

BT and Jay have been working
on sheeting the gable end.

We got Doug here working on

getting the plumbing
finished up.

We're really closing in quick.

[Ryan] We're not in yet.

Hey, wait, we got to
come out for a minute.

Come out.

This is our last chance.

Yeah, she's not...
she's not going in.

I think they might be
getting another shower.

Seventy-six and a half.

We're going to be just about as
tight going through the next door.

Maybe less.

[Ryan] I'm not convinced.

We might have to get
a smaller shower.

Doug's gotta get going.
You know, rough-in plumbing

should have been done weeks
ago on a project like this.

We were taken by the shower.

We like to do
a nice 36-inch shower.

In this case,
it's not gonna happen.

The exterior is all done and
painted. It looks beautiful.

We're not gonna break into that.

They're probably gonna
put you to work.

- Well, that's no big deal.
- [chuckles]

As long as it's light.

You bring your paintbrush today?

No, I didn't.

- Chase has got one up there.
- Hopefully.

[Ashley] The Foster camp
is coming right along.

I knew that there
was a lot of painting

and other projects going on, so,

who's better to bring to the
painting days as Wild Bill?

[Bill] I love that fire pit.

[Ashley] I know, that's sweet.

[Bill] What's going on, kids?

[Ashley] What can Bill do?

I brought him here.
Let's put him to work.

Yeah.

Chase needs help up at
the top of the hill painting.

Really?
I'll go give him a hand.

- All right.
- All right.

Give him two hands.

- See you at lunch.
- Okay, bye.

Bye.

So, I am painting
the interior trim.

It's going to be window trim,
door trim, mop boards.

Yeah, you name it.

If we need trim inside, this
is the color it's gonna be.

Gosh! I better slow down.
I'm beginning to sweat.

That's not in your contract.

- No, not the Union rules.
- I know.

Sweating is not allowed.

[Chase] Bill's been
my painting partner

since I was in high school.

He's got plenty
of stories to tell,

so there's never a dull moment.

[grunts]

It's heavy.

I really need to think about what
I'm gonna do with this jelly cabinet.

That bathroom's big

and there's probably
not gonna be any

cupboard space.

So, why not turn
that jelly cabinet

into a bathroom cabinet?

So, Bill and I are going to
put a white coat on it.

And this is something
that my dad used to

love to do all the time.

Oh, yeah, he loved
to do this stuff.

He did. So he'd put a solid
coat of the white on it

and then let it dry,
and then we'll sand it down.

So the pops of purple
will come through.

Mrs. Foster loves
the color purple,

so the jelly cabinet's purple.

Well, that camp has
beautiful whitewashed walls

and nice white trim.

So, that purple just
wouldn't really work.

Something my dad used to do is

to paint over the purple,

and then once it dries, um,
the next couple of days or so,

I'll come back with a sander

and kind of give it
a distressed look

and the purple accents
will come through,

but it won't be so
"Bah, in you face" purple.

- [Ashley chuckles softly]
- [Bill] Wow, looks pretty.

Now, let's let it dry.

Okay.

Before we start beating on it
and stressing it out.

Yeah, are we gonna hammer it
and do all that stuff

- Dad used to do?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- We'll take a chain and beat it.
- Okay.

- I'm down.
- Yeah.

Yeah, so now, let's just
let this dry and, uh...

go check on Chase, and we'll
come back to it and finish it off.

- Okay, let's go.
- Actually, let's go check on Ryan.

[Ashley] If it's not dry enough,

we can stress it out
a different day.

[Ryan] What we're gonna do is

we're gonna put in
a sewage pump.

Think of it as this
big garbage disposal,

but a sewer system.

You know, the Fosters
never had a bathroom.

So, they were
constantly walking up.

This is a game changer for them.

I think that's
the biggest change

and the only thing they really
wanted to see done.

They knew Chase was gonna come
in and continue his dad's legacy, but,

give us that bath and that's
the one thing we want.

[Ashley] Watch out
of the way, Doug.

- You might be too close, Ashley.
- Oh, yeah, I see that.

Aren't you supposed to say
you were coming, sweetheart?

- What's that?
- Aren't you supposed to say you're coming, sweetheart?

I'm coming, sweetheart.

I don't know if he's got-- had that
much practice on this, you guys.

[Ryan] We rely on
so many other people

and thing are
"go, go, go" these days.

So, we thought, you know,
maybe if we had a machine,

we could, um,

you know, help us dig sills out

and help with
the landscaping a little bit.

So, I-- you know, I decided
to bring it over today.

I've been practicing

for free at friends' houses
and at my own house...

and I'm still not...

there yet.

Well...

take a seat for the show.

[Ashley] Oh, gosh, we might
be hitting the camp.

Oh, gosh. Oh, gosh!

[Ashley] I don't know if he's had
this much practice on this, you guys.

[Ryan] Down right there, Doug?

[Ashley] Does your dad
know what he's doing?

You guys need your daddy
to dig you a nice, fresh hole.

Ryan got his hands
on this new machine.

He was working, like,
right beside the camp,

like within an inch of the camp.

He came pretty close.

Whoa! Aah!

[Ryan] What is that?

It's probably a pipe.

Okay.

- [Ashley] Nice job.
- We didn't hurt the house.

We're gonna put in a sewage
pump and all that stuff goes uphill.

Walking it down there
saved us a lot of time.

Now, we didn't have to wait
for Francis to come here,

dig that out,
leave his machine here,

go to his thing and come back.

Now the machine's here
and we dug that out and then,

uh, Doug will tell me how we
wanna come back with the trench.

If we need it,
we can dig more trench,

but it makes us very versatile.

All right, so this
is going to Tom's.

This handrail's in rough shape.

It's getting donated to
the local skateboard park?

[chuckles]

[Chase] We figured
we'd take it up to Tom and...

powder coat it.

He'll cut out another
piece of metal

that says "Fosters" right in
the center piece there.

So, this is the jelly cabinet

that Bill and I
painted the other day.

It is all dry.

And now, I am going
to sand it down

and see if I can get some
of that purple to pop out.

The look that I'm achieving is
just like an old rustic look.

Mrs. Foster does love purple, so I still
wanna have the purple come through

but just not in your face.

The solid purple
was just too much.

The solid white, you know,
it would've been okay.

But something-- a piece that
old, it gives it a cool look

if you can kind of
make it look old.

You know, this is an old piece,

and so it's nice to give it
even more character.

This is an old technique
that my dad taught me

a long time ago.
He used to do this to...

a lot of his old pieces.

He used to make new furniture
and then try to make it look old.

They're not gonna have
any other cabinet

or storage space
in the bathroom,

so this will just help and give
them extra space to put things.

I think, I'm just about done.

I'll probably just wipe it down,

clean it up a little more.

But overall, I don't think
I'm gonna sand it anymore,

'cause I don't want any more
of the paint to come off.

That's the exact look that
I was looking for.

I love the purple coming through

and I can't wait to see how it
looks in the bathroom at the camp.

I think it came out great.

I'm really excited to hang it
up in the Foster camp.

And now the Fosters
have an Ashley piece.

Back at Mainely Handrails,
I am dropping off

the handrail
from the Foster camp.

- Hey, Tom.
- Hey.

- How's it going?
- Not bad.

Next project for ya.
[chuckles]

- Yeah.
- [chuckles]

[Chase] We ask a lot of Tom.
We love working with him.

We need to get it done,

done well and done fast, so
we're bringing it up to Tom.

- Thanks, Tom.
- Yeah, thank you.

Tom is going to
cut out the name Foster,

set it into it, clean it up,
powder coat it

and we'll put it back down as
the handrail to the water.

[Tom] Oh, wow! Look at that.

[Dixie] It's basically at
the last week here at Foster,

there's light
at the end of the tunnel.

We've got a few trim pieces
we have to install,

and as usual,
last but not least,

the kitchen.

Dougie's here today
wrapping up the plumbing, so

we should be able to give
Ashley plenty of time

to get in here and do her magic.

[Ashley] Over the last week, my
design team and I were able to get in,

clean it, decorate it.

Meanwhile, the construction
team had come in

and was installing
the smaller shower

and the ladder to the loft.

Our family has
a lot of history at this camp,

so it was nice for us
to be able to come in and...

you know, fix it up and...

give them back
a really cool camp.

- All right.
- There you go, still purple.

Still purple on the inside,
but look.

It's just muted a little bit.

I did that's special technique
that Dad used to do.

- Lovely.
- Doesn't it look good?

- Yup.
- I think they're gonna love it.

Still has Mrs. Foster's
purple on the interior.

I can't wait to show it to
them. They're gonna love it.

- They are.
- They're gonna love this whole place.

Let's go get changed.

Jelly cabinet looks great
as a bathroom cabinet now.

Adds some storage space in
the bathroom which was needed,

and we were able to redo
something that was important to them.

That's it.

- Thanks for helping me.
- Sure thing.

Looks good.
Let's go meet 'em.

- [Pam] It looks awesome.
- [Becky] Oh! It's beautiful.

It's beautiful.

- Oh.
- Oh!

They brought their parents.

[Becky] It doesn't look
like our camp at all.

- [Pam] Look where they put the other window.
- Oh!

-So everyone will see it.
-[Pam] Oh, my gosh. I love that!

- [Becky] That's amazing.
- That is amazing.

- Hi.
- Hello.

[Pam] Oh, my gosh!
I love where the window is.

It looks great.

[Becky] We came
to the wrong place.

- We're at the wrong place.
- [Pam] I know!

I love the color, too.

It looks awesome.

- [chuckling]
- [Becky] This is so beautiful.

- Welcome back!
- Yeah.

It looks fantastic.
Oh, my gosh.

It's good to see you,
Mr. and Mrs. Foster.

I'm sure there's a lot of memories
with my father and family down here

and your family as well.

We were able to tear down
the original bathroom and...

enlarge it and build this.

We went with
a gable peak, just to match up

to the existing roof peak.

- I had to add my own octagon.
- [Pam] That's...

[Becky] Got a double--
A double--

- Father and son, yeah.
- [chuckling]

- Yeah, really nice.
- Can we get an Ashley one, too?

- Next 50 years. [chuckles]
- [chuckling]

[Chase] We had our Audet's
Landscaping come in and just,

you know, kind of level
it off, give you more...

- [Pam] Beautiful.
- open hangout area outside.

- [Becky] The railing!
- Oh, yeah, yeah...

[Warren]
That's an Eric Morrill.

-Oh, my gosh. Yeah, we noticed that.
-Yeah, we heard the story

about the metal handrail
down to the dock.

[Becky] Beautiful.

[Chase] So, I decided to pull it out,
brought it up to Mainely Handrails,

they sandblasted it,
powder coated it and

- inset your name into it and...
- [Becky] Oh!

- It's so nice.
- yeah.

It's straight, it's solid.

- Isn't that wonderful?
- Really nice.

- All right, now you can head on in.
- Okay.

- Yay.
- Yay.

- Wow.
- Wow, look at this...

- It looks gorgeous.
- This is amazing.

- [Pam] Unbelievable.
- Wow.

[Becky] This is so beautiful.

[Eric] Walking into the camp,
the first thing

that I definitely noticed

was how open
and how clean and how...

everything just... It didn't
look like the same place,

it was so perfectly organized

and just exactly the cabin
feel we were looking for.

[Becky] This is what we pictured,
but didn't know how to do it.

- [Pam] Yes.
- This is amazing.

The wall and the roof
system in this part is

original.

We stripped it
right back to everything.

We know you wanted
to get the doorway

to the front porch
out of the bedroom.

So, we were able to get,
you know, a large slider,

let more glass, more light

- into the space.
- [Pam] Yeah.

[Chase] So, you still
have two bedrooms.

[Pam] Just how cheerful
and bright and open it was.

It was just amazing
'cause we'd sit there,

we have such
a beautiful spot here,

but it was so dark.

And with the new sliding glass
door to go out on the deck,

it's amazing.

Yeah, go check out
the new bathroom.

- [Becky] This looks so much bigger.
- [Pam] Oh, my goodness.

- And we have a toilet.
- [Ashley] You'll notice...

- Oh! The jelly cabinet!
- the jelly cabinet.

- [all cheering] - Mrs. Foster is
gonna kill me, but I took the purple

- just toned it down a little.
- [Sally] That's perfect.

But I still kept a little bit
of purple for you.

[Sally] My grandparents
lived in Massachusetts.

They sold their house,

and my grandmother said, "No.
We can't sell that jelly cabinet,"

'cause it was really old.

[Ashley] Yeah, I know. Of
course. Well, now it's still here.

- So now, it's here...
- That's awesome.

Yeah, it really is.

It's had a history in itself.

Oh, look at this. Why does
this have so much more space?

What do you think, Dad?

- Very nice.
- [Becky] Isn't it beautiful?

Looks even better
than I even pictured.

Like it... there's just
so much extra stuff, like,

the kitchen is so pretty
and things like that

that I didn't even
expect any of that.

[Chase] All right, well, let's
head out to the front deck.

Oh, my gosh, look at this.

Guys, you can't believe this.

[Chase] A big thing was getting
that door out of the bedroom.

So, we got the door out,
we closed it back in

and we were able to get a larger
window in the bedroom just to really

take advantage
of the water view.

And we ended up shifting this
deck probably about three feet...

- towards the front of the camp.
- [Becky] It looks great.

- [Pam] It looks beautiful.
- [Sally] It really does.

[Chase] You had $40,000 for
the project, the big thing was

getting a bathroom, getting
the doorway out of the bedroom,

and just an overall
freshening up of the camp.

We know, you wanted to be
back before the end of summer.

- We're right on that deadline, so...
- [chuckles]

I think we're there, we just
have to... hand the keys back.

All right, excellent.
Thank you so much.

- [both] You're welcome.
- I think I'm gonna stay here, Dad.

[all laughing]

- Good move.
- You got the skills.

- Yeah.
- We're taking off now,

but you know that
you are not done with us.

- [chuckles]
- Yes.

- We'll be back.
- [chuckles]

-Not to do work
though. [chuckles] -Yes.

- Thank you so much.
- Bye, guys. Yeah.

- [Sally] This is amazing.
- Enjoy it.

We will.

[Eric] They so delivered,
we're so happy.

I can't even-- I think I'm
still overwhelmed and I just

can't say enough.

And they absolutely delivered,
they always do.

I can't wait for the rest of
the family to see this place.

They're just going to love it.

[Becky] This is exactly
what we wanted

even though we never would have
been able to figure it out ourselves.

It's just wonderful. And it
will be great for our kids

and our grandkids.

[Pam] I'd like to thank the Cabin
Masters. They do such an awesome job.

And I know that there are
so many other people,

Chase, Ashley,
there's Dixie, Jedi,

Ryan, I mean,
it's a whole crew, I mean...

it's amazing. I mean, we couldn't
have asked for a better... [chuckles]

A better transformation
for this camp,

it's just-- it's crazy.