Our very cute daughter relaxing with mum in the summer sun, this is what she does while mummy and daddy saw, drill and get splinters
From across the pond you can see the shape forming nicely, this will be the balcony end.
You can see the rafters going up, we only had about 4 pieces of wood long enough so we had to make more from 2 or 3 other bits of wood, interesting....but they seem strong enough, also genuinely the only photo you will find of James doing any work! For some reason I only seem able to capture him drinking tea or eating biscuits.....I'm sure he's done some work!
You can clearly see here we've left one of the end plates too long hanging over the lawn beside the treehouse, it will soon have a pulley, rope and hook....that's right people, we'll have a yard arm!
Fitting the rafters involved bodging together lots of bits of wood to make long rafters, then cutting one end to fix to the ridge beam then cutting birds mouth joints (didn't know what they were before doing this project!) at the other end to make them sit flat on the end plates.
Full kilt action, thank you Heno! He tells me it offers a sense of freedom shorts or trousers can't offer.....either way there was a hard and fast rule imposed as of that weekend, 'if sporting a kilt, Heno is ALWAYS the last person up a ladder!' #shudder
Jane fixing a rafter in place and James larking about....again it seems!
The massive pile of wood in the middle of the floor has it's uses, it forms a 'very safe' and 'sturdy' platform to work on......no one died :)
Heno holding the top of one of the stilts.....this is the shortest and will feature as either a coat or mug rack.....or a naughty peg for hanging naughty children up by there dungarees to consider the consequences of their crimes.
The mug stump
Pile o windows from skips, just need to decide where they're all going now.
A good shot of the base camp. You can see on the right against the shed lean-to our Coroline roofing sheets, like bitumenised, recycled plastic, corrugated roofing sheets, less rusting and noisy than traditional corrugated iron sheeting.
You can see the whole tree in this one
We managed to get power to the tree house for this weekend, we needed the chopsaw to cut stuff to length, saved us a lot of time. You can see some corrugated iron sheets there, more skip diving fruit, maybe for toilet/shower block.
Next weekend....a roof!
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