Putting A Roof On A Playhouse

Once the wall frames are firmly attached to the floor you can move onto making the roof for the playhouse.

Putting a roof on a playhouse.

Once you have it in place you ll put another one over the black part of it and nail it in place and keep going until you get to the edge of your roof. There s probably a thousand different ways we could have built the roof but this is how we did it. So a new gaf timberline natural shadow. We ve had this playhouse up through a windy alaska summer and winter through rainstorms and even with lots of snow.

Small crooked playhouse with front porch in green and white. There are two more rectangular windows with wavy white frames matching the door and the whole exterior is painted. Simply grab one to get started lay it over the peak making sure to cover the highest row of shingles on each side evenly and lining it up with the edge of the roof and nail in place. Large play house with long sloping roof blue door and blue shutters.

We purchased this playhouse kit about a year ago and it has help up great so far. Reconsider with this plan. Attach the roof ridge to the top of the center wall stud with 2 1 2 pocket hole screws and exterior wood glue. Elevated playhouse with firewood storage underneath.

My only complaint is that the roof isn t waterproof and when it rains everything in it gets drenched. Then attach two roof rafters to either side of the roof ridge so they are flush with the back of the ridge. You have a few options here you can saw off the excess nail not recommended on a normal roofing project at all but okay for a playhouse you can hammer the ends of the nails to be a 90 degree angle so the excess lays flush against the ceiling of the playhouse or you can add another layer of plywood inside the playhouse an inch or so down to act as a drop ceiling of sorts. When it s all put together this gingerbread playhouse is quite big measuring 8 x 10 in total.

This simple roof design will take all of the confusion out of rafters. Make sure there is 1 1 2 overhang on the back side. Think putting up a roof on a playhouse is difficult. But before we put it on we need to build the structure for the roof including two more 2 4 s connecting the front and back.

Measure the ridgeboard the board that will run lengthwise through the center of the triangle shaped roof to 7 11. It s also quite tall with a sloping gable roof a tiny chimney and a cute little heart shaped window centered above the door. I really wanted the house to be waterproof that way i can also use it as a storage shed for all my daughters toys.