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In this episode I am building a play house for elementary school.
At this school my niece (or cousin I don’t know the correct term for this). Teaches the children.
She Asked me to make this from a design and I said yes ofcourse. I redid the design and added some stuff.
Have a look at this 3d model. I thought of windows and or openings because kids can play with such things.
With a little shifting and checking by my cousin we detemined the openings and I could start with the building.
I mostly used 2 by 3’s for this and oriented them so it would compliment the design and make it feel as light as possible.
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The wood is spruce because of the budget and color. Using straight pieces makes life a lot easier.
The roof rafters were only 2 by 2’s and the sharp angle was cut freehanded with the chop saw. This is a fancy festool but you don’t need it fort his kind of build.
Then I could focus on assembly in the shop. It’s mostly glued and then screwd together. With enough glue the endgrain joints function. A square is a must fort his.
The visible screws have a counter bore so the heads are below the surface. This is for finishing. You could plug the holes then but this house might be taken down at some point or moved so accesible screws are convenient.
The ends get trimmed later of the rafters. With pins the rafters and ridge and studs are tacked in place safe to move to the location.
At that point I could assemble the windows. These are just boards butted up to each other. To let the glue dry pins are used. There will be a small screw in every board only to lock it in place.
This is structural plywood and it gets sanded and rounded.
Then I moved the stuff to the school. And I started with the ridge to keep the sides up. Again screws and glue.
During this process the other teachers kept visiting and seeing how it enveloped. This is great ofcourse because everybody was enthusiastic.
After the ridge the base was screwed. Here I am using the 3-4-5 method to determine the 90 degree angles. The method goes If you have 3 parts on one board and 4 on the other the slanted or angled line should be 5 parts. This could be feet, yards or meters it matters not. The angle between part 3 and 4 are 90 degrees then.
It is always important to finish joints correctly and with the counter bore screws I made a choice so on the detail. I found this correct fort he situation but sometimes it is relevant to convey and discuss this with the end-user.
The rafters get nailed in place. Not only because of speed but also the finished look.
Then the last window. First a stud and then glue on the surfaces before the window was in place. And again with pins the install was done. These are 15 gauge nails and that is plenty.
Final step was some extra sanding on rough places. This keeps the splinters away. The wood is not stained because the light color is nice and refined and if the kids have a pianting project they can decorate as the class sees fit.
All-in all I am very pleased ho wit came out but also that the kid scan do what they want with this.
After the install I heard the kids loved it so this was a great succes.
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