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Description: Our Kids Treehouse is a Licensed Center – Child Care Program in Terrell TX, with a maximum capacity of 167 children. This child care center helps with children in the age range of Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School. The provider also participates in a subsidized child care program.
Additional Information: Initial License Date: 7/16/1990.
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Do-it-yourself tree house for children
Well, what a good holiday in the country! In the fresh country air, far from the hustle and bustle of the big city, you can work for pleasure and relax in the shade of the gazebo.
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Everyone can find a hobby here, except, perhaps, children. These fidgets are bored digging in the beds, and everything on the playground is already well known and pall. So that they don’t hang on you in a bunch and don’t pester you like an entertainer, you will have to captivate them with something. And what if you build a children’s house in the country? This can be an excellent solution to the problem of organizing children’s leisure, and not for one season. nine0003
How up-to-date is the playhouse?
A children’s house made of wood, built especially for a child, is guaranteed to become the most popular holiday object, since it can be imagined not just as an ordinary box with holes-windows, but as a full-fledged and even completely residential object. It is easy to turn it into an original gaming center.
The most interesting in this regard will look like a children’s wooden tree house. The building is easy to imagine multifunctional and then the kids will never be bored in it. Make the treehouse for kids bright and eye-catching. Equip it with spiral slides, rope, hanging ladder and other interesting rides. Believe me, all this will be perceived with a bang! nine0003
Any child will like a tree house
The approach to the issue of arranging such a zone can be varied. The easiest way, of course, is to buy a finished structure, but if you want to give your children a truly fascinating world, build a children’s wooden house with your own hands. Remarkably, you will not need the help of an architect. Your child will tell you what design he would like to get at his disposal.
DIY tree house
When working on a project, sit a child next to him and ask how he sees the children’s house in the country: color, size, location. Does he want to have additional entertainment in this corner, such as ladders, tables, swings, or is he quite satisfied with the interesting interior arrangement of a children’s tree house or in the garden. You can show him several options for architectural solutions from the Internet, maybe something will attract him. By the way, you yourself will find there a lot of tempting ideas for creating a children’s corner. nine0003
Offer your child a few sketches of the future house
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Types of children’s houses in the country popular varieties.
House-hut
This is the simplest wooden house for children, with only a window and a couple of benches inside. The design attracts with ease of installation and unpretentiousness of dimensions. The house-hut is most often found in summer cottages of small areas. nine0003
Simple tree house
Green house
The object will delight lovers of organic architecture. It is built, unlike a treehouse for children, at no extra cost: just install a mesh frame and choose the right assortment of greenery that will entwine it, becoming a living roof and walls. The green house will be the subject of your pride and the object of neighborly envy.
Original house made of branches
House-hut
Model of a real village hut in miniature. Such a children’s house is being built from wood, sometimes even, for greater resemblance to the original, from a log house. The option is not too intricate, but very interesting for schoolchildren, as it gives a feeling of adulthood and complete independence. nine0003
Tree house for children
Two-level house
Now this is not just a claim to a play area, but an application for your own little world. The lower tier of a do-it-yourself children’s wooden house is set aside for the kitchen or for study, and the upper tier is equipped for games. A wonderful move would be to combine the building with a sports corner. For example, let the child choose how he will get to the top of the house:
1. Traditionally climbing the stairs. nine0003
2. Climbing the rope.
3. Climbing sloping honeycomb decks, etc.
Near the children’s wooden house itself, you can dig an additional beam with a support and hang a swing on them.
Children’s play center on a tree
Fairy tale house
This category of children’s cottages in summer cottages includes all constructions of non-standard forms: boat buildings, rockets, castles, interpretations of the dwellings of Hobbits, Baba Yaga, gnomes, etc.
Fairy Hobbit Tree House
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Children’s tree house
Building a tree house with your own hands may not be so easy, but this solution usually causes the greatest delight of the children. That’s where the expanse for fantasy! It is here that the most gambling games are organized. Having decided to do something like this, it is better to involve a professional in order to think through everything in detail and securely fix it. A treehouse for children is an object of increased danger, so during its construction it will be necessary to provide for many nuances, among which there will be no trifles. nine0003
Children’s house made of wood or … ?
From what to build a playhouse is a question no less relevant than in what form. Anything can become a building material:
- modern plastic;
- branches;
- timber;
- board;
- plywood;
- stone;
- improvised material.
Plastic
“Don’t put a plastic house for children on a tree, even at their very big request”
Do-it-yourself children’s house is just assembled. Ready-made disassembled structures are purchased in stores and simply installed in the country. Plastic houses attract safety, hygiene, colorful solutions, light weight. Often these are mobile buildings rented for the winter. They are interesting for kids. They can be placed in the garden, but you should not mount a plastic house for children on a tree, even at their very large request. The option is rather fragile and difficult to refine, so it’s better not to philosophize. nine0003
Plastic house set at a low height
Plywood
Even non-professionals can work with this light cheap material, so it is most often chosen to work on a children’s wooden house with their own hands. True, you can’t implement complex plywood projects, but it’s quite a decent play area for preschoolers.
Building a house out of plywood is not difficult
Wood
In this category, buildings made of wood of any quality or without it. The latter is acceptable for organizing a play area for children of conscious age. Similarities of huts and huts are built from branches. A planed timber will allow you to build a more solid children’s house in the country, resembling real housing as much as possible, with an internal layout, perhaps even insulation and heating. nine0003
Children’s house made of wood is environmentally friendly and highly durable. You don’t have to worry that it will be destroyed by playing children. Moreover, staying in a house assembled from coniferous boards will have a beneficial effect on children’s health.
Children’s house made of wood is highly durable
A full-fledged house with thoughtful finishes and design, will become a place for educational games, will help the child to feel his independence. Another advantage of wooden houses of capital construction should be considered that you can play in them in any weather. nine0003
Can there be a children’s wooden tree house? Undoubtedly! This is another weighty argument to take a closer look at the material.
Well, in conclusion, it should be noted that as the children grow, the need for a house as a playground will disappear over time, and the building can be re-qualified as a subsidiary farm.
The same can be said about a stone children’s house in the country, only they will have to be built in tandem with a bricklayer, and a children’s house made of stone cannot be placed on a tree. nine0003
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Do-it-yourself children’s wooden house
Like any work on a construction site, the construction of a playhouse begins with the development of a project. What is worth thinking about?
1. Above installation method. Stationarity or mobility – that is the question. The choice will affect the size of the building and the actual technology of its construction.
2. About the number of windows. They must be done at least two. First of all, this will make it possible to illuminate the wooden children’s house well, and secondly, it will make it possible to control what is happening inside. nine0003
Several windows will allow you to control what is happening inside the house
3. About the height of the openings. Windows are raised above the floor by at least half a meter. In the finished elements, the door frame adds little height, 20-30 centimeters more than the height of the child, but when you build a children’s wooden house with your own hands, you can adapt it to your height, because for sure you will be invited to visit more than once, and the interior decoration as something will need to be produced.
4. Above the shape of the roof. This part should not be made flat, so as not to provoke the kids to climb on it.
What do we build from?
For the construction of a simple children’s wooden house, you will need to purchase:
1. Sheets of plywood in the amount of 4 pieces with dimensions of 1.7 x 2 m. Of the 13 pieces, 8 will need to sharpen one end with a stake.
3. Bars of the same section, but with a length of 35 cm. You need 8 of them. They will become the foundation of the floor. nine0003
4. 17 two-meter boards with a section of 5 x 15 cm. These are elements of a horizontal clip and flooring.
5. Roofing material for roof covering. You can choose everything that you like from eco-products.
6. Metal corners.
7. Paint and varnish.
8. Self-tapping screws.
9. Brushes.
Tools for making a children’s house
Marking out a place for a children’s house made of wood places. nine0003
After picking up a site, start marking it. You can skip this moment only when building a treehouse for children. Take pegs and rope in your hands and fence off the area of the required size and shape. Now take care of its alignment and tamping.
Digging in the supports of the future house
At the corners or the diameter of the resulting base, dig holes with a step interval of 20 cm. Short bars are lowered into them and dug in. The height of the above-ground part of the bar should be 20 cm. Work is carried out using a level so that the future children’s wooden house does not turn out to be skewed. nine0003
The next step will be to attach 4 boards to the supports, on which the floors will later be laid.
Fastening boards to supports
Making walls
Work on them begins with the assembly of blanks. They are attached to the chipboard sheets in height along a pointed beam, and they do it in such a way that the upper even edge is flush with the plywood edge, and the sharp lower one protrudes beyond its borders. One plywood sheet supplemented with bars = one wall.
Assembling the walls of the children’s house
In each element, according to the plan, we make an opening for a window or door. “Ready” walls are driven in with a sledgehammer close to the finished flooring. When building a children’s wooden house with your own hands, you need to do this so that the wall “sits” tightly on the floor.
Do not forget to leave openings for windows
The panels are fixed to each other with corners and screws, making sure that there are no cracks or gaps.
Putting on the roof
Let’s start with the shape. The slopes can be made steep and gentle. For a high roof, you will have to assemble a frame from the same long beams redone in half and connected at right angles and attach the skin to the improvised rafters. In a children’s treehouse, with the implementation of such an idea, difficulties may arise, so sloping roofs are more often placed there. nine0003
Making a sloping roof
The connection angles are taken from both sides on a metal corner. This is necessary to give good rigidity and increase the strength of the carrier frame. As a coating, you can take plywood, laminate, slate, rail, even pieces of linoleum. The corners empty under the roof, from the facade and rear of the house, are sewn up with plywood. It can be decorated with carving, burning, original dormer window.
The roof must be securely screwed to the house
The decor of the children’s house in the country
“Children should not be allowed to decorate the treehouse with their own hands”
This is the part where the child should be actively involved in the work. Feel free to give him paints and brushes. Let him work on decorating the walls and doors.
What are the options? Yes, any: from colorful drawings to outright blots. You can suggest the idea of wall decor with handprints. Usually children are happy to take on this work. Girls can try to paint surfaces with flowers, rainbows, bows. Children should not be allowed to decorate the treehouse with their own hands. It may be dangerous. nine0003
Final work on the decoration of the house
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A simple wooden house
Often, for happiness, children get for personal use not a well-maintained territory, but a wild wigwam or a hut. Do not deprive them of such pleasure, especially if there is enough building material in the country. A lightweight children’s house made of wood, or rather, from its branches, can be assembled in a couple of hours. Before building, be sure to organize a place for a fire. It can be an improvisation or a completely active element. Lay a homespun rug inside the wigwam, and dig a moat around it so that rainwater does not flood the architectural improvisation. nine0003
An example of a simple children’s hut house
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Tree house for children
Modern life is so practical that there is no room left for a fairy tale. But she must be in the child phase. If you are unable to allocate space for a playground due to time pressure with a summer cottage, equip a children’s treehouse for children. This idea will be easiest to implement for those who have a multi-stemmed tree in the garden. Among them, the building will stand firmly and look relevant. Whether to assemble a children’s treehouse with your own hands or entrust it to a specialist – decide for yourself. The result is important here, and not the satisfaction of one’s ambitions, because the playing area must, first of all, be reliable, and also, preferably, adapted to life. The child should be able to fully relax in it, perhaps even take a nap. nine0003
A treehouse for children can be a chic landscape element. Just imagine a dacha, in the depths of the garden of which you can see an exact copy of the main house. It will be at least interesting.
Tree house will decorate your site
If you are going to build a children’s house on a tree with your own hands, do not forget that you need to do it from lightweight materials. A brick building will simply collapse under its own weight.
When deciding how the house will be, rely on the role assigned to it. If it will be exclusively a place for children’s games, then you can interpret it in any form. If you want to make a universal treehouse for both children and evening gatherings for adults, take care of the specifics of interior decoration. nine0003
How to decorate a tree house
Yes, actually in any interpretation. It can be imagined as a modest building with an attached wooden ladder to climb up or its cable analogue, or it can be turned into an entire entertainment town. Attractive for the baby will be a house in the form of a ship deck, a castle, a grotto.
House – a pirate ship on a tree
A sprawling tree or a slender pine can become a place for building a children’s house in the country. It can be hidden in the branches or built around the trunk. To create a large-scale project, you can use nearby trees in the case, connecting them to the house and to each other with cable cars, providing horizontal bars, swings, ropes and slides. nine0003
What’s inside?
In a solid children’s treehouse, as well as in a standing one on the ground, it is very important to carry out zoning. With sufficient space, they should organize a place to work, sleep and eat. You may even be able to highlight the living room, which will surely delight the little owner. After all, now he will be able to comfortably receive friends and practice as a hospitable host.
Tree house interior
When designing a children’s tree house with your own hands, try to make it a veranda or balcony. It will be possible to hang a hammock on the veranda, and furnish the balcony as a place for creative activities. nine0003
Tree house with a cozy balcony
It’s good to put a mini-sofa, wicker chairs and a table in a children’s house. If possible, by all means organize a fireplace and conduct electricity. If there are no such conditions or the object is mobile, put flashlights in it. It will also turn out interesting and mysterious.
If possible, bring light into the house
A reading area may appear in a children’s house in the country. She is furnished with a bookcase and a comfortable chair. You can hang transparent curtains on the windows. In general, if desired, the interior decoration of the building can be done in any style, the main thing is that it satisfies the visions of the child. nine0003
Organizing the space inside the tree house
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General recommendations for arranging children’s houses with your own hands
Make the space of the house closed, so it will be more comfortable in it. Floors can be covered with something soft, such as an old blanket or mats.
There should always be light inside the orphanage, preferably subdued. This will create the most comfortable atmosphere. A flashlight is required in the evening.
Cozy treehouse interior
Ceilings should not go sky-high. Their optimal height is no more than half a meter from the height of the child. This will be the best confirmation that you really built a children’s wooden house with your own hands and will not enter it without an invitation.
Fill the atmosphere with all sorts of entourage things familiar to the child in real life. If this is a pirate lair, a bottle for sealing messages, a chest for storing treasures and, of course, a corresponding flag should appear in it. In the princess’s boudoir, you will need a mirror, an old telephone, various glamorous things. On the ship you can not do without a radio. In general, give the children everything that might be interesting, and what to do with it, they will come up with themselves. nine0003
Decorating a tree house
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Safety comes first
wood should be safe. This can be ensured by the right approach to the choice of material and the construction process.
Children’s house in the country should not be in the sun or in thick shade. In the first case, it will be hot in it, and the child may get sunstroke, in the second, it will be damp, and the place of play will smell like mold. nine0003
Set up a play area on a level surface or attach a children’s tree house with strong branches. The design must be reliable. Not shaky and not a roll. The child will run, jump inside and this should not be reflected in the state of the house in any way.
Make sure the construction of the house is reliable
Check the quality of the building material. Boards and bars should be well sharpened so that the baby does not have splinters.
When working on a children’s wooden house with your own hands, screw in the screws correctly: their caps and sharp ends should not protrude above the surfaces. nine0003
For roofing, especially in small houses, use elastic and flexible materials such as polycarbonate. Ordinary slate or metal has sharp enough edges and can injure children playing.
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Conclusion
Children’s house in the country is an irreplaceable object. He will be truly loved, and will be an excellent stimulation for the child to self-development.
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how a childhood dream became an adult business
Summer is coming – the time of school holidays and children’s expanse in the country. For many families, the Soviet “six acres” are a thing of the past – people are trying to buy a large plot of land with a forest, in such a territory there is a place for a spacious house, and for landscape design, and for barbecues, and for playgrounds. In recent years, tree houses have been gaining popularity in Russia – a story that came from America and won the love of not only children, but also adults. The treehouse is associated with a childhood dream of adventure, a private nook where you can secretly with friends or read a book, but the industry has long stepped over this framework – treehouses have turned into quite adult entertainment. nine0003
One of the world leaders in this field is the American Pete Nelson and his company Treehouse Masters. To get an idea of how amazing tree houses can be, just take a look at their Instagram. In the meantime, MIR 24 spoke with representatives of three Russian companies about children’s houses not a tree – whether all breeds are suitable for construction, is it safe for the trees themselves and how long such a house can serve.
Ivan Chernov, GnezDom, Zelenograd:
“Our business started in 2012, and in 2016 my partner, Alexander Bolnykh, and I left our jobs and organized a company. Then our workshop was placed in a car, now we are professionally engaged in the construction of tree houses in an equipped spacious workshop. Why houses? This whole story is connected with the psychological needs of a person. When we are children, we begin to feel the limits of our boundaries, when we are comfortable or uncomfortable, to seek security. Someone builds a fortress from blankets and pillows, someone builds huts from sticks, someone dugouts, someone builds tree houses. This is all a realization of the need for security. Then we grow up, and this need is already realized in an apartment, a private house, and our office. But we always subconsciously dream of returning to childhood, remembering how carefree we were – when the trees were taller and the ice cream tasted better. nine0003
The construction of houses in Russia is not regulated by law, they are not capital buildings. There are norms for playgrounds, we work with these GOSTs and, accordingly, fulfill all these requirements: calculation of fences for different heights, entrances and exits of children’s slides, distances between game elements so that children do not intersect. There are standards for timber-frame housing construction, we also use these standards, because, in fact, we build American-style frame houses. When we attach directly to trees, we use the American Treehouse attachment bolt (TAB) system. It was invented by American Michael Garnier. This technology has been tested and used for more than 30 years in the global tree house construction market. The pioneers in this industry are the Americans, now the Europeans are actively building, there are teams in South America, Russia, Ukraine. This is a large and friendly community. nine0003
Trees with a well-developed root system and sufficiently dense wood are suitable for building houses. Pine and spruce have a normal density, but not the strongest root system. Oak, maple, ash are good… Trees with soft wood should either be avoided or other methods of securing the house should be used. In American culture, for example, a treehouse is anything that is above ground and has a platform with trees running through it.
We often hear the position of clients that they would not want to cause even minimal damage to trees, then we put the house on support pillars at a height of two meters, pass the trees through the platform and thus achieve the desired effect. Often there is a question: what to do if there are no trees at all? In this case, the house is placed on supports, then with the help of a landscape designer, landings are made around it, or a large-sized tree is planted (if the customer’s resources allow), or a small tree is planted that will grow with the child. nine0003
TAB is safe for both the tree and the structure it supports. Much more dangerous is the system of so-called wells, when a tree is surrounded by vertical or horizontal pieces of wood and then squeezed with a cable, studs or chain. The problem is that in this case almost the entire field of its supply is clamped. Using TAB, we drill a small hole with a diameter of 64 mm without interrupting the flow of juice. Over time, the tree grows and “eats” this glass. In the case of a well, if it is not stretched (and often clients do not), the tree simply goes around this choke and dies. nine0003
The task of parents is to bring up a child harmoniously, and a tree house is a great tool. This is a space where you can create, play, at the same time, this is a secluded place that can be equipped with various game elements so that the child develops physically: slides, a climbing wall, a rope, a fire pole, a net. The bungee is a must have on every site. We even had a tree house project with insulation, heating, Wi-Fi, a triple bed and a personal panda park. The clients signed a property transfer agreement with the children, that is, the children decide whether to invite their parents to visit or not. Of course, they invite them, and their parents spend the night there with them. Now there are more and more requests for full-fledged tree houses, this culture is actively developing in Russia.” nine0003
Anton Sinkevich, Tree House Company, St. Petersburg:
your space. So I built the first tree house, it still hangs on a birch. I liked this job and it seemed promising. My wife and I looked at what is offered on the market, and found almost nothing. Then I advertised on Avito, where the first orders began to come from, and then I organized my own website. nine0003
By profession, I was originally a joiner and carpenter. Then he entered the institute and took up the installation of metal structures. Then it was the Forest Engineering Academy, now it is the St. Petersburg Forest Engineering University. I graduated with honors, entered graduate school, then received a Ph.D. – all this in various forest areas. In parallel, while I was studying, I worked in forest management for 10 years. As a result, I have accumulated a vast knowledge base about wood science, materials science, forest plants, forest diseases. That is, I know trees, ranging from anatomy-physiology, ending with forestry on a national scale; processes occurring with a single tree, with a group of trees, with forest stands, and so on. Not every tree, not every breed, can be fixed with a house. The weight should depend on the configuration of the tree species. The trees themselves, which I inspect before starting construction and design, I always evaluate according to silvicultural criteria: how healthy, viable it is, what load-bearing load it has. In cases where there is doubt, a special tool is drilled and a core is pulled out – a column of wood that determines the age of the tree and the presence of rot or disease inside. nine0003
There are a lot of requests now, as the idea is starting to gain popularity. In 90% of cases, my houses are fixed only on trees and are not connected to the ground in any way.
This is a space that lives with the tree, sways along with it, creaks. The child in it holds on to the trunk, listens to how the tree breathes – everything is for this. This is a children’s story – not a heavy structure without insulation, plumbing and the like. Play equipment does not really fit into my concept either. A house is your own space where you can hide, sit, raise a ladder so that no one touches or sees you. And if you hang all sorts of bungee ropes, climbing frames on the house – this is another thing. The finished playground can be placed at the other end of the site and play there. nine0003
The height depends on the courage of the child, the maximum I did was about 4.2 meters from the ground. Parents are fully responsible for safety. The most popular requests are for railings and stairs: for some reason, most parents believe that the child will fall at the moment when he goes up or down from the house. Everything else depends on the trees: no two houses are the same, because no two trees are the same. On one large tree with a diameter of 26 centimeters or more at the height of the lower trim, you can make a house measuring 2.5 by 2.5 meters. Such a house weighs approximately 500-600 kg. A house four by five meters will already weigh about three tons. There must be many trees to support such a load. nine0003
The technology I use does not harm the tree. In a special way I press the beam to the tree, drill it through with a drill, put a hairpin, tighten the nuts – something like this. Which beam is attached to which tree is an individual component of each project. The ascending flow of fluid in a tree occurs in the trunk, the descending one – along the bast or along the bark, that is, between the bark and the wood. When drilling through a tree, I make the contact spot with the beam smaller than if I wrapped around the trunk with some kind of large collar and squeezed it from both sides. If you have seen trees that are strongly compressed by some kind of cable, they usually dry out because the downward current is being clamped. It harms the tree much more than a piece of metal of small diameter, drilled through. nine0003
What percentage of the trunk circumference can be compressed and subjected to injury varies depending on the species, age of the tree, weight of the house, condition of the tree. Pine has a crust, not so it is damaged. You can’t work with a Christmas tree like that, because it has a thin bark, the deformation will be larger and deeper. It is better not to work with aspen at all – it starts to rot early, by the age of 40, then it is attacked by tinder fungi, etc. A thin aspen will be healthy, and an aspen with a diameter of more than 24 cm will, as a rule, be already affected, that is, its bearing capacity will be much lower. You can build on birches, oaks, beeches, ash trees, bird cherry. Once I built a house on a gray alder. This is a tree of the second magnitude, but it is short-lived, I dissuaded people. They still wanted it – they said that in two years, if the tree dries out, they will dismantle it. nine0003
I estimate the service life of the house – five to seven years, but in general it will sag more. Last summer, I took apart a house that had been hanging for 18 years. It was made by a person who simply nailed the boards to a tree with nails – no struts, complex weighting elements, nothing was attracted by the studs … The reason for such durability is good ventilation. Less fluctuation in temperature than at the surface of the earth, that is, the house is well ventilated, moisture evaporates faster, the boards rot less. This is where operational aspects come into play. If the house is actively used, the wood will wear off. If these places are tinted every year, then 10 years will stand 100%. And then the need passes, because the children grow up. nine0003
Nikolai Lutov, MneDomik, Moscow:
“The story of my building treehouses began about five or six years ago. At first, I built a small house on the ground for my daughter, I saw the reaction of the children and realized that it was really very necessary. I began to look at what we have on the market in terms of the construction of children’s facilities – at that time the situation was not very good. And I decided to do it. Later he took on more serious buildings: large playgrounds, tree houses and others. nine0003
An ideal house should definitely be at least three meters high and no less than six to eight meters in area. If a house is considered for living, then it is already from 20 meters or more. The law does not regulate the construction of houses. The question of whether this structure is capital or not capital is regulated. There are no signs that this building is capital (foundation, availability of communications, etc.). If the house is made with communications for commercial use, then here you can “pull” signs of capitalization onto the object itself. But none of my clients have experienced this. nine0003
There are two technologies: we often use German, this is a crimp fastener, which is made directly based on the dimensions of the tree. It consists of several segments that are bolted together. The tree grows, so you need to loosen these bolts about once every five years, this is done quite easily. The second technology is when a garnier bolt is screwed into a tree. All stem flows successfully bypass it, the tree is easily restored. One big bolt is better than 10 small ones. And if the customer has a desire to dismantle this house, we recommend that in no case unscrew the bolt, but simply cut it off. An important nuance is if the house is attached to several trees at once. Since they tend to sway in the wind, in order for the house not to be torn apart, certain sliding fasteners must be installed. nine0003
Houses with additional supports are popular with us, and trees often play a decorative role. With the help of supports, you can fix additional elements in the form of nets, climbing walls. Trees pass through the house, through the platform on which the house stands, and all the load is concentrated on the posts. On Christmas trees, we generally do not recommend doing load-bearing things, since the Christmas tree has a superficial root system. Spruce often brings down during hurricanes. Birch in the Leningrad, Moscow regions often has a rotten core. The core will show what is happening with the birch at the moment, but you will not do it every month. Pine, oak, larch, bird cherry, acacia are excellent for building a house. In other cases, we suggest making additional supports. nine0003
Of the most interesting projects we’ve done, I really liked the ship that stood on two trees. The customer is a former sailor, his son loves the nautical theme, and they asked to make a ship with a mast, a long bow – about seven meters long. And the house itself is a felling. Another customer asked for maximum glazing. Of the load-bearing and frame wooden elements, there was a minimum, everything else was glass, painted by the artist with stained glass paints.