Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Further Progress on the Treehouse Roof



This week we primarily continued with work on the roof, but first we installed the cable to stabilize the entire structure.  We installed eye lag bolts on diagonal corners of the deck and two eye bolts into the nearby pine tree.  Then we installed a 5/8" galvanized steel cable from the one corner of the deck, through the two points on the pine tree, and finally back to the eye bolt at the other corner of the deck.  The swaying of the deck has diminished greatly.  There is still some small amount of movement, but I will install U bolts adjacent to the eye bolts at the pine tree to limit any movement of the cable through those eye bolts.

Back at the treehouse we built a scaffold hanging out over the side of the deck where there is nowhere to stand so that we could finish laying the 1/2" plywood on the roof and the remaining facia board.  We also installed 1/4" plywood on the soffits, put on the drip edge, ice shield, and tar paper.  



On the flat roof section (the crow's nest) we put on ice shield, followed by a layer of roofing adhesive, and finally a layer of tar paper.  Before installing the soffit plywood we installed wiring so that we can install lighting under the eaves later.

On the railing, we cut the opening for the area on the deck where the ladder will go to the crow's nest, installed new posts, and the railing to protect that addition, and installed a new ladder to the crow's nest.

On the crow's nest, we started the installation of the posts for the railing.

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