Guest Post by Michael Chandler of North Carolina
Construction Details
After building curved wall project I was interested in seeing how it would work as a free standing structure and decided to try it as a play house for my daughter. With a footprint of less than 144 sf and no dimension larger than twelve feet it wouldn’t need an engineer’s stamp or a building permit. We (Erica and I) laid out a re-cycled lumber tarp on a round notch we cut in the hillside next to the river and set a ring of 3/8″ rebar on it. We formed up the first armature of 3/8″ rebar wrapped in 4″ wide ribbons of re-cycled brown tarp so they’d look like bent branches and the rusty surface wouldn’t rub off on the kids. Then we wrapped it in several layers of the same re-cycled lumber tarps and the expanded wire mesh and another layer of re-bar. The window and door frames were made of copper flashing rolled onto the same re-bar and wired into the frame to create “eyebrows” to divert rain water.
