How To Roof A Playhouse

Cut the rafter to the correct angle and length using a framing square and a circular saw or a miter saw.

How to roof a playhouse. Once the wall frames are firmly attached to the floor you can move onto making the roof for the playhouse. 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. There s probably a thousand different ways we could have built the roof but this is how we did it.

I moved the playhouse to the deck and assembled. In each of your shingle sheets you want to use four of the roofing nails. Cut the ends of the rafters at the right angles as shown in the diagram. Add tip ask question comment download.

Roofing was super easy and only took a couple hours to complete the entire project. How to build a playhouse roof. Secure the rafters to the side walls with a 2 1 2 wood screw. Build the rafters out of 2 2 lumber.

Fit the rafters to the playhouse making sure you place them equally spaced. Then repeat with the rafters on the front of the playhouse. In this plan we will show you how to put the roof rafters up. 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.

After many long hours and a sore wrist my jig sawing was done and i got to work framing up the play house section. Drill pilot holes and secure them into place with 2 1 2 screws. Make sure you give at least a 1 2 overhang over your plywood. More on this in a second.

The top plates of the walls were kerfed 2x4 s. I also decided to paint the window trim and front door in a pale blue along with adding some new flower boxes. 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.