Build a TreeHouse

kormak

So I wanna build a treehouse in my garden this summer.
Something on 4 stilts concreted into the ground and has a wavy slide down from it. I have the carpenter on-hand... just wondering has anyone done this before and if so, have u any plans, specs, i.e. how much timber will I need, what type, what lengths, etc... cheers.

Bonzo Delaney

kormak wrote: »

So I wanna build a treehouse in my garden this summer.
Something on 4 stilts concreted into the ground and has a wavy slide down from it. I have the carpenter on-hand... just wondering has anyone done this before and if so, have u any plans, specs, i.e. how much timber will I need, what type, what lengths, etc... cheers.

Here's one I made for the kids back in 2014
Don't skimp on timber sizes for the base
I used 6x3 for the stilts concreted 24 inches into the ground
9x3 for the purlin
9x2 for the joists
4x3 for struts
1 inch decking for the base
2x2 frame with ship lap cladding
4x1 1/2 rafters
2 X1 1/2 slate battens
Natural slate left over from house under cloaked with dpc on hips and valleys with a lead ridge
Acrylic sheet for Windows.
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Tom44

A tree ?

kormak

Bonzo Delaney wrote: »

Here's one I made for the kids back in 2014
Don't skimp on timber sizes for the base
I used 6x3 for the stilts concreted 24 inches into the ground
9x3 for the purlin
9x2 for the joists
4x3 for struts
1 inch decking for the base
2x2 frame with ship lap cladding
4x1 1/2 rafters
2 X1 1/2 slate battens
Natural slate left over from house under cloaked with dpc on hips and valleys with a lead ridge
Acrylic sheet for Windows.
image.jpeg

That's great help Bonzo ! cheers...
Did u have a drawing for it or was it just in your head.
I would love a little plan to work with...:)

Bonzo Delaney

kormak wrote: »

That's great help Bonzo ! cheers...
Did u have a drawing for it or was it just in your head.
I would love a little plan to work with...:)

Out of the head really but the basic shape is a 13 ft across hexagon so the outside sides are 6ft6 each,the house itself are 5ft 6 high 5ft wide wall panels which leave an 18 inch balcony around it. We already had the slide so the base height was determined by that. But you could buy the slide part separate.
The front porch was an after thought before the roof went on to dress up the front a bit, there was more work in that than the house itself
It was built in the summer evenings and and weekends off so I'd plenty of time to think things out.
I reckon there's a good weeks work for a carpenter and labourer including slating in it if there's a definite plan to work from.

curiousb

I have a slide that used to be used on a treehouse we had. I gave the treehouse to a friend but he didn't want the slide so it is sitting on top of the garage at the moment and you are welcome to it, if you want it? It is straight, not wavy though.

It is like the one at the bottom of this page, but yellow.

kormak

curiousb wrote: »

I have a slide that used to be used on a treehouse we had. I gave the treehouse to a friend but he didn't want the slide so it is sitting on top of the garage at the moment and you are welcome to it, if you want it? It is straight, not wavy though.

It is like the one at the bottom of this page, but yellow.

Hi, yeah absolutely I'll take that off your hands. where are you based?

curiousb

I'll pm you my details