Second house built

No - we haven’t suddenly become rich. But a playhouse for the kids – that had to be.

This playhouse was designed and first built by an acquaintance for his own children. Half a year later, he moved away and faced the decision: dismantle and take it with him, move away, or find a buyer. His housing cooperative didn’t want/couldn’t take over the little house because it was self-designed and therefore didn’t have a TÜV certificate. Since his wife knew that we wanted to buy a playhouse for our kids, the solution was quite close. This self-made building was more expensive than planned but is made of solid wood.

In November of last year, my father and I wanted to set it up and dismantle it within a week. Well – in the end, there was only enough time for the dismantling because we had to unscrew everything individually. Originally, we thought we would have a part of the house lifted out by an excavator. But all the companies we asked refused. Everything was brought to our property (about 300 m) by wheelbarrow or carried.

In the week before Easter, we started the reconstruction. Setting everything up anew, burying foundation stones, and raising it. At Easter and three days afterward, my father was relieved by my father-in-law and brother-in-law. We then took care (in lousy weather) of the swing beam and the roof.

After that, there was some quiet time since the help was gone and I was a bit perplexed with the sandbox puzzle. How do I get the pond liner in, ensure drainage of the sand, and also build the cover for the sandbox (since the cats shouldn’t get an oversized litter box)?

Well – this weekend I finished the project. The kids are happy, and I’m finally done too. Above all, my head is glad, which got a few dents during the assembly and disassembly. Usually, when beam hit head, the beam won. I myself landed hard on my backside twice, just like in the comics. It’s a miracle I didn’t have broad bleeding wounds on my forehead – that’s what a baseball cap prevents.

Dimensions: Playhouse post size approx. 2 m (corresponds to sandbox dimensions) Playhouse including perimeter 3.50 x 3.50 m Playhouse (upper part) 2.00 x 2.00 m Swing and climbing beam: 5 m Entrance 0.5 m with railing Total height approx. 4.50 m

Now my wife can finally devote herself to the still missing lawn after 1.5 years. It has long been a thorn in her side.

Attached are three photos. Here you go:

rocks! unfortunately we don't have the space. but you are still doing the meadow :);)

Great, really nicely done!

Thank you very much for the praise and the many "likes". It goes down like oil ;).

I recently wrote it in another thread.
Man grows with his tasks. For me, especially the manual skills.
Now, after we built the playhouse, I trusted myself with the sole assembly of our garden shed (thus the third house construction). Before, I could not have imagined this even in my wildest dreams.

fetzt ! leider haben wir den platz nicht . aber die wiese macht ihr noch :);)

Yes - we will still do the lawn. I would love to borrow a rototiller and tackle the whole thing with it. Now that it has rained a bit, the ground is no longer so hard – it could work. We first have to get the weeds and stones out.

However, my wife fears that we still won’t get through and will have to rely on spade/fork for the entire property. Unfortunately, I feel like she is right :(.

Respect. Looks good. Working with wood is always fun. But as always, it also shows here that it takes much longer than you think :-)

A proper engine with decent power works wonders,,,,,