How To Roof A Treehouse

In other words our roof rises 6 inches for every 12 inches of run.

How to roof a treehouse.

This was quite challenging because i had to figure out how to properly attach them as well as work from a high and dangerous height. You should never use a flat roof for a treehouse. Add a simple roof to your treehouse. This roof is made from a simple tarp although you can also get more elaborate in designing and constructing your roof.

Drive one hook into both trunks about 8 feet 2 4 m above the bottom of the platform. I used shingles cut in half to seal around the tree and shingled the rest of the roof like normal. When your rafters are all on lay down the plywood for the roof an leave a good 2 and 1 2 space around the tree so it can sway in the wind without hitting the roof. A properly sloped or pitched roof is much superior.

Allow a two inch gap around the tree if it passes through the floor and a three inch gap if it passes through the roof see photo. Remember our walls are at 5 feet so we have a 2 rise a 6 12 pitch will give us a 26 5 degree slope on our roof. Roof pitch can be a bit confusing but i will tell you how we did it and please know that you can modify to what suits your treehouse best. For our hideaway we went simple and used a 6 12 pitch.

To keep a large tree house stable center the load over the trunk and spread the weight among several branches. I have worked with tar and gravel shingles before but never wood. The ideal roof is impervious to water but also needs to rapidly shed water so there is no chance of pools or damp patches building up. How to level a treehouse floor.

If your design calls for a flat roof try to introduce even a small slope of 3 5 so water cannot sit there. String a bungee cord between the two hooks and slip a tarp overhead.