Children's Playhouse - Day 9

OK, so work had been continuing, despite the lack of updates on the playhouse.

The exterior us just about finished, with just some sort of window shuttering to do.  My wife and u settled in not having a door, but we may revisit this decision at a later date.

The outside had been painted (with the assistance from three little ones 8, 5 and 2) a brown colour which to our surprise, has belnded the whole thing into an almost invisible structure - quite a feat for something so big.

Work continues in ernest on cladding the interior to hide the pallets and weather proof the inside, as well as reducing the risk of all those nasty splinters.  Any gaps around the roof have been filled in using expanding foam - works a treat.

Pictures below of work so far......

The helpers painting the outside of their playhouse

Side view of painted exterior

Front view of painted exterior, partly hidden by shrubbery

Washing Machine Drum Firepit

I've seen a few homemade Firepits on Pintrest, Facebook and google searches, which were made from various things, but it was the one made from an old washing machine drum that caught my eye.

Lucky for me, I was told that a friend of ours had just bought a new washing machine, and they hadn't yet taken their old one to the dump, so that was it. I'd have to give it a try.

Unfortunately, I was so eager to get this one done, I only remembered yo take three pictures....

Step 1

Take one old washing machine, and strip it right down. Therr are several videos on YouTube which show you how to do this, but take care when removing the big counterweight stones. Those bad boys are heavy.

Step 2

Once you have everything stripped out, you should be left with the drum , which will be inside a thick plastic casing. 

On the reverse side you should find a single bolt, which once undone, should separate the casing. Unfortunately for me the bolt just wouldn't budge, so after two days of sawing, I finally removed the casing to reveal the drum

Step 3

You can spray the drum with heatproof spray (usually used for spraying the artificial coals on a gas fire), but that's an optional thing. I had run out, but decided to go ahead and try it out anyway.

Have some dru wood and pop it inside. Once you have a he fire lit, you should have something similar to the picture below.

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