Stevo's Playhouse

Rapid work! Looks great! 10/10 would pretend to drink tea in there.

Fucking knackered now. Delivered yesterday, built today (around the rain and desperate to finish before nursery pick up), birthday tomorrow. Now to keep her from looking out the back windows until tomorrow.

Great work. Love the way it matches the daddy shed.

For wood rot fans, the bases of the posts and ladder were soaked in wood preserver overnight, which I then proceeded to spill all over the floor of my shed, so I suppose that's now extra protected now too.

Success

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Yes, one of the perspex panels was missing from the delivery.

Awesome!

Needs one of these in there to mirror your daddy playhouse:

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mini_com has some of the bosch play tools so that's not a bad shout. But order of the day is currently "picnics". And a seat so she can sit and "have a think".

You’re adding a loo?

Looks great! Ayla has spent all weekend playing on hers - I'm sure yours'll do the same...

Made some beefier and less steep steps. Might remake again with 6" deep treads as all I had lying around was 2x4 and it's not quite deep enough.

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Added some deeper treads on top instead of rebuilding the whole set of steps.

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Wanted the side gate to open outwards rather than inwards so I could stop having to lift the ramp up and down. So decided to remake it instead of trying to shift the hinges and it fall apart.

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Screws are clutch head/one way so the hinges can't just be popped off.

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Going to remake the ramp too as it was originally made from old shelves that the previous owner had in the living room. But it fits for now.

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Looking good.

We need 2-3 outdoor doors for our brick shed.

Don't suppose you have a materials list and a rough indication of cost?

I went to B&Q as it was convenient, I'm sure you could go cheaper. I also could only get 3m cladding boards so there was a bit of wastage.

7x pressure treated T&G cladding (119x14.5x3000mm) @£9.64 = £67.48

2x PT 2"X3" @ £6.97 = £13.94

Lock - already had but about £15

Hinges - £20

Clutch Head screws - £10

Oval nails - £2

Decking oil - about a quarter of a tin - £7

So about £140. Likely can get a gate cheaper ready made, but I wanted to make this (and I could only really do it today or it would be delayed enough I don't get around to it) and it meant I could make it whatever size I wanted. Plus I used better fixings than you get in the pre made gates.

Knock £20 off that for the unused cladding off cuts.

Cheers

That's cool, going to steal your idea!

And also what a nice and tidy workshop!

You’re a DIY dadmachine

A freshen up and oil for the front wall and deck.

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Working on a 150% scale version of the little Adirondack chair as I much prefer the design to my original big one. Got most of the pieces cut and squared but run out of timber so need to grab a couple more boards. I've been using the bandsaw and jointer to cut/shape/square the pieces, which is working brilliantly but my 20l shop vac cannot keep up. I tried it without the bag but it just does not filter out the fine dust. So have ordered a Triton dust collector/separator bucket so hopefully that catches most of the bigger chips and the shop vac and bag can handle the finer stuff. Not M class by any means, but I'm not doing this every day.

https://www.ffx.co.uk/product/Get/Triton-330055-5024763043086-Dca300-Dust-Collection-Bucket-20Ltr

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Dust bucket arrived and already impressed. Decided to swap some of the connectors around on the shop vac hose so that I can run the short hose directly into the vac from the bucket, then doubled up the shop vac hose onto the long hose on the bucket, giving me a super long hose. No apparent loss of suction and no clogs when I tried some heavy passes on the jointer with a scrap of 2x4 (photo after three 1mm passes on 6" worth of 2x4 scrap, did quite a few more when testing various hose arrangements so collected about 5 times that with no clogging, I won't be taking that much material off at any one time in actual use). Will definitely prolong the life of the shop vac bags and the long hose reaches anywhere in the shed so don't have to worry about moving it unless I'm working out on the deck, and then it's not really that much of an arse.

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