Cabin Renovation

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revdocjim

Burning Hunk
Sep 7, 2015
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Japan
We are winterizing and upgrading a cabin that was originally designed for summer use only, for my son and his wife. I won't go into all the details, but we will be installing a Morso 2110 in the living room and a Nectre Bakers Oven in the back half. The chimney for the Morso requires a chase so the local carpenters started tearing up the roof yesterday. Hopefully things will be up and running by mid-December. By late January we typically have 2-3 meters of snow on the ground in this location (Nagano, Japan) so we're eager to get things wrapped up. The Nectre will have to wait until spring, which is fine because the rest of the project won't be done until next summer anyway.

I'll probably be posting more updates as things progress.

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A rough layout of the hearth
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They were working up in the attic and I decided to take a closer look at the newspaper that was stuffed in all the cracks as insulation.
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Oh, and the sunset wasn't half-bad either!
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Japan! Damn that is wild. Is it hard to get firewood in Japan.

That little cottage doesn't look particularly Japanese, it could be up in the mountains in New York state.
 
Beautiful country! Looks like a cozy place, and I like all the glass. What is that roofing material? Looks pretty quick and easy...
 
We have a good supply of firewood here. Oak, birch, cherry, chestnut, and way too much pine and cedar. The cottage was not made in the style of Japanese architecture at all. This particular vacation community was started in 1921 by foreigners living in Japan. It continues to be a very international community. The roofing material is sheet metal. When they peeled back the green sheet metal it revealed the previous roof which was red sheet metal. When they peeled that back it revealed the original roof which was wood shingles.
 
Cool. Whats the boxes above the windows?
 
Those are metal shutters for the windows. The only time we use them is when the cabin is unoccupied in the winter months, but they're pretty common in Japan.
 
That's a great view!
 
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