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Lots of people on here seem good at this stuff. I have a small garden and want to make a small play room/house for my daughter. The space is essentially a triangle with about 2m sides. It is right up against a 2 walls. The point of the triangle will be were the walls meet (not a 90 angle) and then open up to the garden. There will be a sloping roof from the narrow point to the wide front.
I am happy making the frame (suspended of the ground by about 20cm). The problem is I was going to make the frame and then clad the outside with shed boards. However I have no idea how to clad each side as I cannot get to the outside! So I assume I have got the construction order wrong!
So how do I do it, make each side first and then install? This is a very odd shape space with angles and variable heights so thought making it in place would allow me correct as I go. Or do I make the frame but not attach, move away from the wall and then clad?
Help please. As you can see my confidence and ambition exceeds my ability!
Yeah can you make the frame and slide it off the base to clad it while it's still relatively light, with appropriate braces screwed in to support it as you do it?
Then slide it back and fix it down?
Ok, good to see that is not a crazy option. I think it might be the only way.
That’s the way I did mine which is in the corner of the garden by a fence and hedge. I built the side and back panels, clad them with cheap cladding as I’ll never see it, sprayed with a load of preserver then fixed in place on the base.
Roof sounds like it may fun. Just built a log store that sounds similar. Accessing the roof to put the last boards was fun. In your case I'd probably build each wall where you can get to it, assemble together making sure it fits, disassembly, move each panel and reassemble in situ.
see im thinking differently, can you not affix the vertical battens/posts to the walls, and then screw cladding onto those, so you only see the cladding from the inside? maybe shiplap or the like?
apologies if im imagining this wrong, IANAJ, but ive built to a similar method myself.
If it's not going to be weather tight, why not just put a roof between the existing structures (I guess a wall and a fence?), then you dont need to clad it at all?