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.

How to roof a playhouse.

Then repeat with the rafters on the front of the playhouse. Build the rafters out of 2 2 lumber. Fit the rafters to the playhouse making sure you place them equally spaced. There s probably a thousand different ways we could have built the roof but this is how we did it.

Secure it to the front roof rafters with 4 of the wood screws. After many long hours and a sore wrist my jig sawing was done and i got to work framing up the play house section. Roofing was super easy and only took a couple hours to complete the entire project. Secure the rafters to the side walls with a 2 1 2 wood screw.

The playhouse also has a new home on my newly added flagstone patio more on that later. In each of your shingle sheets you want to use four of the roofing nails. Add tip ask question comment download. Drill pilot holes and secure them into place with 2 1 2 screws.

The top plates of the walls were kerfed 2x4 s. Once the wall frames are firmly attached to the floor you can move onto making the roof for the playhouse. In this plan we will show you how to put the roof rafters up. Make sure you give at least a 1 2 overhang over your plywood.

Cut the ends of the rafters at the right angles as shown in the diagram. More on this in a second. Since the roof won t really be supporting any weight we kept it very simple. 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.

How to build a playhouse roof. 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. To do this first create a frame and then cover it with plywood.