Build a log cabin Playhouse for under $300

Step 10 Installing the Roof

Now to cover that gap at the peak in the roof with a fence slat.

Install for lack of a better word (Cleat) inside the front fascia, and also apply one to the center stringers on the front and back wall. The cleats should be flush with the top of the roof peak.

Now cut one fence slat that will go from the cleat on the front fascia to just past center of the front wall cleat. You need to make this cut at a 45 degree angle. Then cut another slat from the back wall cleat flush with the back of the roof, ending at the front wall cleat, again making a 45 degree cut so the two piece of the ridge cap will sit perfectly flush.

Now just screw the pieces of the ridge cap on and you have a nice rounded top to the peak of your roof.


I precut all the sections of roll roofing to 8 feet 1 inch. I then slid them into place doing the side panels first. I nailed every 4 slats about 8 inches from the edge leaving any overhang on the back of the playhouse.
Once both sides were up and nailed on, I rolled on the center roofing and nailed that down about 2 inches from the peak and then about 4 inches from the edge again every 4 slats.

I was told that after the first couple hot days the roll roofing will flatten itself out.