Hut Maintenance
Hut maintenance is an important responsibility of the club. This page is intended as a repository of ongoing and needed hut maintenance projects.
Last updated January 2007
Kersosene Heaters
The heaters are dysfunctional and have been put in the basement. A Coleman lamp was packed out Spring '04 and is sitting in the gear room waiting for somebody to repair it or discard it.
Toilet Seat
Hinges are broken, and could use repair. Outhouse is still functional however.
Missing Pots & Pans
No pots and pans are in the hut, only a frying pan.
Door
The wooden door to the hut is swollen from moisture and is really hard to close. Easy hand planer job needed to make the door a little smaller. The outhouse door has the same problem but is not nearly as bad.
Log Book
Current log book is a ring bound soft cover notebook and pages are wearing quickly. This book should be replaced with a more durable hardcover notebook.
Guitar
Needs a new top E string
Harrison Hut Door, paint and steps
The Harrison Hut needs a new door, steps, and more paint. Roland Burton is presently coordinating repair efforts. The door is already flown in, but needs to be installed. We could make some steps out of stones, or not. The paint is up there, we need a nice day for painting. This should all be done while Frank is offering us helicopter rides into the Hut, as there may be no other way to get there now the bridge across Meager Creek is gone.
Brew Hut
Thing to carry up to the hut
- Guitar, with spare strings
- some VOC Journals (see Brew Hut page for which ones)
- a metal bucket - the new sign (like the old sign) says "put the ashes from the stove in the metal can provided". There is no metal can.
- We should bring up a sponge or something for mopping water off the floor during the wintery months. No rush.
Painting (medium priority)
Painting tasks require dry, warm weather. Preferably in the summer.
- Outhouse exterior is peeling and needs painting. Roland suggests BC Parks brown stain that was used for the Burton Hut.
- Outhouse interior is mould and needs painting. Roland has 1 gallon of mis tint off white paint for this at home.
- Window framers are peeling and need painting
Available supplies:
- There is an unused 8 inch roller up there and two paint brushes.
- There's about 2 liters of downstairs (industrial) floor paint (concrete colour). This should be enough to do the cracks in the floor liberally (2x?), plus another coat in the high traffic areas. This will work better after the floor has dried a bit more and is swept very clean. We have two, 4 inch rollers up there, which work well for the cracks, and for the coat in the high traffic areas.
- There's about 3 1/2 liters of pale sand or pale concrete industrial paint which can be used for the outdoors window ledges and window frames, a couple more coats if this looks necessary. Then what is left over could be rolled onto the floor upstairs. This will make the floor colour lighter overall, but this is not a bad thing.
- There's the sickly yellowish trim paint (about a liter), which can be applied to the window trim boards on the outside, and inside as well, if that's what we want. This paint is really ugly, and should only be used as a base coat if painting for it with something else. This can may have issues because the lid may not seal properly though I beat on it with a hammer for a while.
- There 1/3 of a 1L can of bright yellow, plus another unopenned 1L can of the same. This paint is for interior and exterior trim boards. They don't need to be painted again anytime soon.
- There's part of a liter of paint thinner/solvent up there, for whatever purpose.
- Note that the industrial paint must be applied in a strong wind with the windows open, and the hut vacated for at least 12 hours after, so should be done just before departing for the city. Once applied, the windows do not need to be left open.
- Anybody intending to finish the painting should bring up a disposable brush. And a rag for dusting.
- There's 2 small unopened tubes of dynaflex 230 caulking. The only joints which have not yet been overzealously caulked are the joints between the sheet metal and J trim on the sides of the windows.
- The area below the door (where the porch meets the hut) could use some paint and caulking to seal it up properly. This will have to wait until spring.
Miscellaneous (low priority)
- Put rocks and/or wire mesh at the side of the Hut to keep wolverines from crawling under it. Materials are available on site. A wall of rocks along the south edge of the hut (back wall on the insde) will help keep the wind from blowing a lot of snow under the hut. Rocks along the sides will obstruct access to spare building materials which are currently stored under the hut.
- Create about the brew hut (and how to send us money) and get them laminated. A non-laminated version of the sign is presently on display at the hut.
- Ground the hut for lightnight protection using wire, connectors and grounding plat that are up there.
- An outside ladder to the attic at the Garibaldi end of the Hut.
- bring tacks/short nails etc. - Currently the rules and history signage is duct-taped to the wall. Tacks / very small nails would look more professional. Bring 8.
- The sweep, the thing which fits under the door of the Hut and keeps out mice and wind, is broken. I think that a standard sweep will work, but in case you are the person buying one, the door is 1 7/8 inches thick, 32 inches wide, and the crack below the door is 3/8 or maybe 7/16 inches. When you buy a sweep, the package includes several sheet metal screws to attach it. Normally it is too long and you cut it with a hacksaw to the correct length. The hacksaw is up there. If we can't afford a new sweep this year, we should at least bring up some sheet metal screws to attach the remains of the old sweep.
Windows
- Install weather stripping that is up at the hut already
Hut Libraries
The club strives to keep libraries of the VOC Journal, and editions of the VOC Songbook in each hut. A list of vaccancies that need to be filled follows. Please add to these lists if you find any ommissions when you visit a hut, or remove them if you happen to find a particular journal at a hut.
- VOCJ 2003-2004
Burton Hut (Sphinx)
- VOCJ 2003-2004
- VOCJ 2003-2004