How To Roof A Playhouse

Roofing was super easy and only took a couple hours to complete the entire project.

How to roof a playhouse.

I also decided to paint the window trim and front door in a pale blue along with adding some new flower boxes. The playhouse also has a new home on my newly added flagstone patio more on that later. The top plates of the walls were kerfed 2x4 s. I moved the playhouse to the deck and assembled.

Once the wall frames are firmly attached to the floor you can move onto making the roof for the playhouse. Then repeat with the rafters on the front of the playhouse. Cut the piece of 2 4 left over after cutting the 63 roof ridge so it fits right under the ridge on the front of the playhouse. Make sure you give at least a 1 2 overhang over your plywood.

Drill pilot holes and secure them into place with 2 1 2 screws. Add tip ask question comment download. Cut the rafter to the correct angle and length using a framing square and a circular saw or a miter saw. After many long hours and a sore wrist my jig sawing was done and i got to work framing up the play house section.

In each of your shingle sheets you want to use four of the roofing nails. Secure it to the front roof rafters with 4 of the wood screws. Since the roof won t really be supporting any weight we kept it very simple. How to build a playhouse roof.

There s probably a thousand different ways we could have built the roof but this is how we did it. Secure the rafters to the side walls with a 2 1 2 wood screw. Cut the ends of the rafters at the right angles as shown in the diagram. That s right just grab a sheet of shingles give it a 180 turn and your going to nail right in between the glue strip the black shiny line across the shingle and the chalk line.

Measure the ridgeboard the board that will run lengthwise through the center of the triangle shaped roof to 7 11. More on this in a second. To do this first create a frame and then cover it with plywood.