Building Alaska

- Season 5

(2016)

The three teams kick off their builds in remote Alaskan settings. The projects include a family legacy cabin in the Wrangell Mountains, a guest cabin in Eagle Song and an island getaway near Juneau.

Three teams continue their builds in unique, remote Alaskan settings. At this stage, they're staking the areas, going on supply runs and digging foundation holes. One team finally makes it off Alaska's frozen highway.

One Alaskan builder's team loses hands to volunteer firefighter duties and another faces a big change in temperature that changes his focus. Rough seas and some bad math put one build team behind schedule.

One builder encounters record-breaking spring temps at the build site while another looks the other way when it comes to code on his guest cabin. One team is almost stranded by tides at their island getaway.

Mike and his crew scramble to save the peonies in Eagle Song, Dave and Hans's 50,000 lbs of material make it to shore unharmed on Shelter Island and Adam does some precision work on his cabin in the Wrangell Mountains.

Mike's plans to catch up backfire in Eagle Song, Dave and Hans start laying the floor while having fun at their client's expense on Shelter Island and Adam battles 100 years of brush for his family cabin in the Wrangell Mountains.

Mike gains ground, but can he keep it by only laying plywood over the cabin's foundation? Dave and Hans revisit their build and realize they've got a lot of work, but not much time. And Adam faces his biggest fear about the build.

Mike's son Cody comes up with a fix to peel logs for their cabin build in Eagle Song. Dave and Hans work through extreme weather and muscle heavy beams up to the second floor. And Adam is a bag short of cement for the foundation.

The builders make progress peeling and stacking logs, but heavy fog puts one supply boat journey in jeopardy.

While one builder falls further behind schedule due to wet weather and unforeseen obstacles, the others work on transporting materials to their build sites.

It's time for rafters and roofing for one crew, while another tries to set the extremely heavy ridge beam until help arrives. Another crew transports logs and gets the massive cabin floor laid out.

The build crews set ridgepoles, deal with last-minute design changes and come up short when crucial logs go missing.

It's do or die time for all of the builders as the tides and weather prepare to change.