How To Frame A Roof For A Playhouse

In each of your shingle sheets you want to use four of the roofing nails.

How to frame a roof for a playhouse. Cut the struts the supportive edge of the roof out of 2x4 boards to 14 long. Take a few more of your 2 x 3 x 8 boards and frame out the front door. The ends of the rafters should be flush with the outsides of the front and back walls matching the trusses built into the gable end walls also highlighted in green above. Drill pilot holes and secure them into place with 2 1 2 screws.

Create the eight rafters made from 2x4 inch boards. Secure it to the front roof rafters with 4 of the wood screws. Secure the rafters to the side walls with a 2 1 2 wood screw. Measure the ridgeboard the board that will run lengthwise through the center of the triangle shaped roof to 7 11.

Cut the ends of the rafters at the right angles as shown in the diagram. Build your trusses by screwing the tops of the trusses together using the 2 screws and glue. How to build a playhouse roof. Cut the rafter to the correct angle and length using a framing square and a circular saw or a miter saw.

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. Build the rafters out of 2 2 lumber. Miter these to the correct angle to fit. Take your 2 x 3 x 8 boards and cut them into 32 support pieces for in between each post of the a frame roof.

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. More on this in a second 2. Fit the rafters to the playhouse making sure you place them equally spaced.

Since the roof won t really be supporting any weight we kept it very simple. There s probably a thousand different ways we could have built the roof but this is how we did it.