SelkeyMoonbeam

No, that's the easy part about building in Alaska!

Very difficult! Forgot to mention the "remote" part in the body of the instructable. We shop for hardware at the Home Depot in Juneau, have to get some kind of truck or special shipping onto an 8-hour ferry that goes once a month to a nearby town, have to get it off the ferry, carry each piece of plywood/etc. down to the beach, load it onto a small aluminum skiff, take it across an ocean bay, tie up by our place, unload splashily in our rubber boots over the edge of the boat (we don't have a dock, and it's a very long beach– so ideally, we do it at high tide to shorten the distance, which also means checking that the boat's not grounded every 5 minutes).We can also do some stuff locally. Our neighbor down the beach has a sawmill (lucky for us!), so a lot of the wood from...

Very difficult! Forgot to mention the "remote" part in the body of the instructable. We shop for hardware at the Home Depot in Juneau, have to get some kind of truck or special shipping onto an 8-hour ferry that goes once a month to a nearby town, have to get it off the ferry, carry each piece of plywood/etc. down to the beach, load it onto a small aluminum skiff, take it across an ocean bay, tie up by our place, unload splashily in our rubber boots over the edge of the boat (we don't have a dock, and it's a very long beach– so ideally, we do it at high tide to shorten the distance, which also means checking that the boat's not grounded every 5 minutes).We can also do some stuff locally. Our neighbor down the beach has a sawmill (lucky for us!), so a lot of the wood from this cabin is from downed large trees on our property. We log the wood, drag the tree trunks down to the beach with his borrowed machinery, wait for high tide, float it over behind his boat, he mills it for us, we carry it back down the beach by hand.Some of the other stuff is from older settlements or driftwood– sometimes we can find grown-over tarred logs (used in the foundation), and I think the large yellow cedar posts you can see below the loft window were driftwood originally.Sometimes we take the skiff out to the more exposed beaches to go "shopping" for whatever washes up– big flat rocks to use as paving stones, stumps, slabs of wood that we can use for furniture. Hike that to the boat, get the boat to the beach, carry it in...

This is in Southeast Alaska!

Nope, it's analog.

"DNP" is "Do Not Place" – so, nothing goes there! They are in the design just in case something needed adjustment in hardware, but we never needed to use them.

Yes, they are! They were added into the design in case adjustments were needed.

Good idea! I probably should have tried a string-based approach since there's a string contest going on... maybe you can take that one :)

Oh, that's entirely possible! We do have really old pipes in this building; they shudder if we try to turn the water on too high.

That looks great! Glad I could help!

Just unbraid to remove! It stays as long as you keep the braid in.You can reuse it, but you have to be careful how you treat it. I let mine get messy and tangled after a second use, and there was no coming back from it.