Building Alaska

- Season 10

(2019)

Three new teams, three new builds, and countless challenges ahead. Rookie builders Matt and Amy Hill snowmobile their materials across the frozen Safari Lake landscape, and find out building in the snow is more complicated than they planned. Professional builders Dan and Mike Owens mill the lumber needed for their build at their sawmill before working with a snow cat to haul all their materials out to their build site outside Petersville. First-time builder Jackie Keizer hires a team of professionals who struggle to bring out an excavator and help her dig the ...

At Jackie's slippery build site, the team works to finish the subfloor and start raising walls, but rain and mud hinder the team at every step. The Hills work through freezing Alaskan temperatures to finish installing their foundation, but digging out their supplies and a fallen tree under three feet of snow and a fallen tree stops the builders in their tracks. The Owen family works to overcome missing pieces of their log walls, being a man down, and the ever-painful Alaskan winter weather.

The Hills race to finish installing their floor in order to avoid delaying their scheduled wall delivery, which leads to an injury on site. Jackie and her team work through the rain to get as many layered walls done as possible to make up for lost time the week before, but they run into problems when their build materials start to fall apart. At the Owen's build site, the team struggles to install the loft floor joists and tongue and groove flooring before a snowstorm could bury them.

This weekend, the Hills work on their first floor framing and deck so they can meet their goals of sheathing and framing the second story, but work slows to a stop when their tools begin to freeze. Back at the Owens' build site, the team works on installing the second story gables, dormers, and roof rafters, when they accidentally cut through one of the cabin's electrical wires. Jackie and her team work to finish the cabin's roof structure, but mis-measurements and communication errors begin putting team members at risk as they install rafters and corbels high above ...

At the Owens buildsite, the team is working to finish the roof, but multiple falling objects, miscutting the metal roofing material, and cold winds and white out conditions make the job perilous. In Moser Bay, Jackie and her team struggle lifting the 250 pound stove from the bay up to the cabin, discover they have the incorrect nails to install their windows, and accidentally install the floorboards of the deck incorrectly. The Hills arrive at their buildisite to their materials buried under the snow, run out of screws in the middle of installing their rafters, and ...

At Jackie Keizer's buildsite in Moser Bay, the team delivers the cabins French Doors to the buildsite, but during installation they find the frame fits incorrectly. Meanwhile, Jackie works high above the ground installing soffiting in the eaves of her roof as she races against the clock, coming closer and closer to building over schedule. At the Hills build site in Denali, spring has come early and the snow is melting fast. A snow machine delivery runs into problems on the melted trail, while Amy find out they are missing a crucial component to the cabin electrical ...

At Jackie Keizer's Moser Bay build site, the team is installing the cabinets, refrigerator and propane stove when they hear propane leaking somewhere in their cabin. At the Owens' build site, the team installs roofing insulation, frames their interior walls, runs electrical, and finishes the tongue and groove walls. But melting trails makes the delivery of interior cabinets and appliances dangerous. At the Hills' build site, their delivery of tongue and groove paneling for the ceiling of the cabin is behind schedule and the installation of the wood stove's chimney is ...

The build teams continue to struggle as their build seasons come to a close. Jackie's nail gun breaks while finishing up her built-in banquette seating, she runs low on time when building the loft railing, and it becomes a mad dash to finish up the interior of her cabin before her family arrives to see it. The Owens must chop through ice and snow to build stairs for the front porch and break down some tongue and groove wall paneling in order to install a missed outlet in the bathroom. They are at risk of not finishing their clients' cabin before the snow machine ...