On Monday, I posted the plans for the
And it never occurred to me when I posted the plans for the playhouse deck that I had already built a very similar design. On a very steep hill, with a shovel and a screwgun as our tools (no road access here, so if you want a foundation, start digging the old fashioned way)
Notice the heavy cross bracing? Not a bad idea for your playhouse deck, but a necescity on the steep hilside and because we had a specific task in mind for the platform. Grace called it her "tower," for a few weeks, until it became a stair landing
Those stairs, now that was a project! I like desiging in sketchup where everything is flat. Working on a steep hillside was definitely a challenge. Oh, and I almost forgot. Our adult sized playhouse sits on a platform much like the design for the playhouse deck
We built this deck, and over the past seven years, it has not budged, wiggled or wobbled, despite being on a steep incline.
I'm confident that your playhouse deck will be just as sturdy, but much easier to build. I'm hoping your supplies don't have to be boated in on a creek with mere inches of moving water on it. And that you are working off a surface that was leveled by a piece of heavy equipment. Speaking of leveling the playhouse deck, if you are working on an uneven surface, like we were, you can simply "let your post run wild" meaning that you don't cut them to a specific size. Then place the apron boards around the post using a level. Then chop the tops of the 4x4s off even with the tops of the apron boards to get a level surface on an unlevel terrain. Cross brace whenever you are working on uneven terrain.
We've decided to wait just a bit to build the deck (landscaping logistics) but I can't wait that long to start on this project. Because this playhouse plan is basically panels that can be prebuilt and assembled on site, I'm going to start on my panels tomorrow. And you can too.
Looking at this simple panel, I know you are thinking, I could build that. And I agree, you can handle this one. On a side note, I drove past a construction site today, and prebuilt wall panels were being positioned in place with a crane, and I couldn't help but think about how our playhouse will have prebuilt panels (but no crane, just the RAM)
On Monday, I posted the plans for the
And it never occurred to me when I posted the plans for the playhouse deck that I had already built a very similar design. On a very steep hill, with a shovel and a screwgun as our tools (no road access here, so if you want a foundation, start digging the old fashioned way)
Notice the heavy cross bracing? Not a bad idea for your playhouse deck, but a necescity on the steep hilside and because we had a specific task in mind for the platform. Grace called it her "tower," for a few weeks, until it became a stair landing
Those stairs, now that was a project! I like desiging in sketchup where everything is flat. Working on a steep hillside was definitely a challenge. Oh, and I almost forgot. Our adult sized playhouse sits on a platform much like the design for the playhouse deck
We built this deck, and over the past seven years, it has not budged, wiggled or wobbled, despite being on a steep incline.
I'm confident that your playhouse deck will be just as sturdy, but much easier to build. I'm hoping your supplies don't have to be boated in on a creek with mere inches of moving water on it. And that you are working off a surface that was leveled by a piece of heavy equipment. Speaking of leveling the playhouse deck, if you are working on an uneven surface, like we were, you can simply "let your post run wild" meaning that you don't cut them to a specific size. Then place the apron boards around the post using a level. Then chop the tops of the 4x4s off even with the tops of the apron boards to get a level surface on an unlevel terrain. Cross brace whenever you are working on uneven terrain.
We've decided to wait just a bit to build the deck (landscaping logistics) but I can't wait that long to start on this project. Because this playhouse plan is basically panels that can be prebuilt and assembled on site, I'm going to start on my panels tomorrow. And you can too.
Looking at this simple panel, I know you are thinking, I could build that. And I agree, you can handle this one. On a side note, I drove past a construction site today, and prebuilt wall panels were being positioned in place with a crane, and I couldn't help but think about how our playhouse will have prebuilt panels (but no crane, just the RAM)
On Monday, I posted the plans for the
And it never occurred to me when I posted the plans for the playhouse deck that I had already built a very similar design. On a very steep hill, with a shovel and a screwgun as our tools (no road access here, so if you want a foundation, start digging the old fashioned way)
Notice the heavy cross bracing? Not a bad idea for your playhouse deck, but a necescity on the steep hilside and because we had a specific task in mind for the platform. Grace called it her "tower," for a few weeks, until it became a stair landing
Those stairs, now that was a project! I like desiging in sketchup where everything is flat. Working on a steep hillside was definitely a challenge. Oh, and I almost forgot. Our adult sized playhouse sits on a platform much like the design for the playhouse deck
We built this deck, and over the past seven years, it has not budged, wiggled or wobbled, despite being on a steep incline.
I'm confident that your playhouse deck will be just as sturdy, but much easier to build. I'm hoping your supplies don't have to be boated in on a creek with mere inches of moving water on it. And that you are working off a surface that was leveled by a piece of heavy equipment. Speaking of leveling the playhouse deck, if you are working on an uneven surface, like we were, you can simply "let your post run wild" meaning that you don't cut them to a specific size. Then place the apron boards around the post using a level. Then chop the tops of the 4x4s off even with the tops of the apron boards to get a level surface on an unlevel terrain. Cross brace whenever you are working on uneven terrain.
We've decided to wait just a bit to build the deck (landscaping logistics) but I can't wait that long to start on this project. Because this playhouse plan is basically panels that can be prebuilt and assembled on site, I'm going to start on my panels tomorrow. And you can too.
Looking at this simple panel, I know you are thinking, I could build that. And I agree, you can handle this one. On a side note, I drove past a construction site today, and prebuilt wall panels were being positioned in place with a crane, and I couldn't help but think about how our playhouse will have prebuilt panels (but no crane, just the RAM)
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