Thread: Yet Another Cubby House / Playground WIP

Progress 06

Yay, another shopping spree to get some more essentials for a little more progress. Items bought were:

1ea fibro cement top coat, 3kg (flushing villaboard and nail holes) $19.84
3ea 89mmx19mmx1.8M DAR pine (window & door inner framing) $13.65
3ea 42mmx11mmx1.8M DAR pine (window & door outer framing) $14.58
3ea 89mmx19mmx2.4M DAR pine (window & door inner framing) $17.73
4ea 42mmx11mmx2.4M DAR pine (window & door outer framing) $25.32
2ea Liquid Nails cartridge (window & door framing) $8.90
2ea Windsor 70mmx19mmx0.9M pine picket (portico barge board) $4.32
4ea Windsor 70mmx19mmx1.8M pine picket (gable barge board) $15.28
3ea Windsor 70mmx19mmx1.2M pine picket (finnials) $7.95
5ea 20mmx8mmx2.4M Tasmanian oak square edge (inner window & door edging) $42.75
4ea 38mmx38mmx0.4mmx2.4M zinc steel angle (Villaboard corner edging) $42.76
4ea 75mmx75mmx2.4M zinc steel angle (gable & portico flashing) $81.36
2ea 200mmx200mmx2.4M 3 bend zinc steel ridge capping $63.85

Step 7 - Roof Flashing

At this point I trimmed the excess of the ends of the roof flush with the roof panels. I then pre-painted the ridge capping and some of the timber and affixed it to the main gable.

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Next was to trim the excess Viallaboard from the face of the gables. After this was done I cut and set the larger angle flashing, cut the barge boards (pickets) to length, then nailed them into place. I also cut a section of Villaboard for the portico face.

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Next was to trim the portico capping to size and I then screwed it down. At this point I glued a piece of leftover angle against the front wall above the portico to assist as a water drip point as seen in the image below.

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I then cut the flashing and barge boards for the portico and screwed and nailed them into place as well.

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I had some leftover 20mm angle from a previous job, and I used this to neaten the edging where I trimmed the edge of the sheets down.

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Step 8 - Villaboard Preparation

I used the compound to fill in all of the nail holes in the villaboard when I affixed it to the framework. I also used the fibretape in the joints and set an initial flush. After sanding everything back I reflushed and filled for the second time.

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I also used the Liquid Nails to affix the corner flashing to the edges of the Villaboard. I used some aluminium tape to hold the strips in place while the glue set.

Step 8 - Villaboard Initial Preparation 03.jpg

Step 9 - Door & Window Framing Part 1

I used the DAR pine for this because it does not contain any knots or defects to it's the best to use for framing. Just follow the images below to see the stages as I made the door framework.

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So basically, top outer - top inner - bottom inner - one side inner - same side outer (repeat other side) - bottom outer.

I was able to complete one window before the effects of the cyclone up North started to hit me with rain so I had to pack the power tools up. The next image shows the bottom left hand corner of the completed window frame.

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I was still able to start the filling of the timber gaps and nail holes while the rain was coming and going so the last half of today of the weekend was spent just patching/flushing and sanding.

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Cost to date: $1492.09.