Hi All

I am starting to build my daughter a play house this week and am pretty much ready to go. However I would like to glaze it in plastic rather than glass. I have done a bit of a google search but it all seems very expensive and much too big. A piece 1.7m x 0.51m would do me and my 3 windows. Anyone out there know of a supplier of smaller bits of perspex or polycarbonate.

On and I just bought the B&Q 80 quid compressor kit. A 1.5hp 6ltr compressor (blimin noisy though), 50mm nail gun, spray gun, tyre inflator and blower gun (I think that is what I shall call it). I am so chuffed with the nail gun. Hardly any marking and plenty of binge for the 50mm brads. I also do a fair bit of airbrushing and used to use a tiny diagphram compressor which was on all the time. Now I have a tank on the new one it is very peacefull for quite a while. Then all hell breaks loose for 15 seconds. For 80 quid it is fantastic value I think.

Cheers

Gareth

Be careful to ensure that the plastic you use can't shatter - could be deadly if it does.

Mothercare sell (or at least used to sell) a cling-film type product on a roll which sticks to glass so that if anything falls against the window the glass doesn't shatter.

Never worth taking chances where children are concerned.

Andrew

Going from a recent topic.
Put the beading on the OUTSIDE so the kids cant remove the glazing to get out.

[quote author=cutting42  link=1091486553/0#3 date=1092171945]Thanks for the advice. I have got  5mm polycarbonate windows now (the stuff that the police use for riot shields), should hold the kids in place when I lock the door on them [/quote]
One thing to be careful of is that this could restrict the options if people needed to get out (or for that matter, in) in a hurry. You couldn't smash thru this stuff.

Andrew

When my kids were all very young, my father in law made them a playhouse.
He worked for a well known concrete garage plant as a chippie.
He put polythene sheets over the frame before covering with shiplap. The roof was covered in good quality roofing felt with chippings and welded on. The floor stood on western red cedar as its rot proof.
It was like a jigsaw puzzle fitting it together but was completely weather proof.
It didn't cost a penny as he had the other chippies at work helping to make it from wood that hadn't cleaned up to the required size for garage doors and would have been burned. They loved making the child sized windows and doors and called it a 'diddy' house. This name stuck so the kids still remember their diddy house.
We took it to South Africa in '73 and when we came back 3 years later I left it with my parents to keep their 2 alsations in. It was large enough for 3 kids and to store their bikes and garden toys in.

absolutly brilliant mate well done
good job i like unusual challenges and thats a good un

big all

NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2 storey very fancy

Hiya

Thanks for your kind comments, I am very pleased with the results as I am just a hobbyist. My daughter is over the moon and all her friends have been dropping not so subtle hints to their dads. Think I might have been dropped from a few birthday card lists

I would love to say I left the broom there for scale but I had just not finished clearing up when I took the picture.

Cheers

Gareth