How To Frame A Roof For A Playhouse

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.

How to frame a roof for a playhouse.

Miter these to the correct angle to fit. Make sure you give at least a 1 2 overhang over your plywood. Build the rafters out of 2 2 lumber. More on this in a second 2.

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. How to build a playhouse roof. Secure it to the front roof rafters with 4 of the wood screws. Take a few more of your 2 x 3 x 8 boards and frame out the front door.

Fit the rafters to the playhouse making sure you place them equally spaced. Drill pilot holes and secure them into place with 2 1 2 screws. This will make your a frame roof secure and sturdy and also creates supports for the metal roof panels you will add in a little bit. Cut the struts the supportive edge of the roof out of 2x4 boards to 14 long.

Build your trusses by screwing the tops of the trusses together using the 2 screws and glue. Since the roof won t really be supporting any weight we kept it very simple. Measure the ridgeboard the board that will run lengthwise through the center of the triangle shaped roof to 7 11. There s probably a thousand different ways we could have built the roof but this is how we did it.

In each of your shingle sheets you want to use four of the roofing nails. Cut the rafter to the correct angle and length using a framing square and a circular saw or a miter saw. 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.

Then repeat with the rafters on the front of the playhouse. Lay your trusses on top of the ridgepole and line up with the markings from step 1.