Monday, November 19, 2007
Around the house
The walls of the treehouse are 8"x1 1/2" cedar planks split on the diagonal to make the weatherboards. These I ran a jigsaw along the bottom of to give a natural look. I had constructed a frame of 3"x2"s and put it all together before lifting it up to the platform.
The height and 'lean' were all a guess, but you see the desired effect in the finished product. The windows were meant to be 'wonky'.
I had it tied to the glass-house frame with a bit of old bike inner-tube to stop it falling over. It still did so - twice :-( A bit of cursing was heard after nailing the same boards on for the third time ;-)
With the gable end up, I made the other two wall frames up on the platform, and put up the roof ridge pole.
Next was to attach the cedar shakes to the plywood for the roof, and build a ramp for getting up to the flying fox 'jump off'.
The height and 'lean' were all a guess, but you see the desired effect in the finished product. The windows were meant to be 'wonky'.
I had it tied to the glass-house frame with a bit of old bike inner-tube to stop it falling over. It still did so - twice :-( A bit of cursing was heard after nailing the same boards on for the third time ;-)
With the gable end up, I made the other two wall frames up on the platform, and put up the roof ridge pole.
Next was to attach the cedar shakes to the plywood for the roof, and build a ramp for getting up to the flying fox 'jump off'.
Labels: treehouse cedar
# posted by Justin @ 6:40 AM 
