Treehouse Pizza

[UtahBeehiver]

Plus one on Mike's comments

[SableSprings]

Looks fantastic Randy! I love these type of lights...I installed rope lights with similar results. I still remember one of my first bread bakes that went long. It was before I had any lights and I pulled my bake door & peered into a totally dark chamber. Had to go back into the house for a flashlight...absolutely never expected how dark it would be inside the oven at night. A flexible neck BBQ light got added to my oven paraphernalia and rope lighting in the rafters shortly afterwards when I also realized the difficulty in serving & eating in near total darkness! I love your build...great job!

[RandyJ]

Well I managed to get the rest of the bays of lightning up. It was pretty easy as all I had to do was cut a notch at the end of the top channel and fold the back back and file the edges to remove any sharp spots. Then I just used some sharp point screws and screwed it into the top of the rafters. I made sure to stager the covers different than the channels so everything lined up nicely. In total I used 28M of Muzota U108 channel or at least I am pretty sure that was the one. I also used 1 of the 5M Govee M1 led strips and 2 of the 1M extension on each run. There are a total of 4 runs for a total of 28M of light. I managed to get all of the connected to the app on my phone and now just need to get them all grouped together. I don't think I am going to get the electric all piped in this fall as I really want to focus on the stone veneer. So it will probably stay with extension cords and splitter for the winter. I will post some more pictures of at night but I have this one from when I finished for now.

Randy

[RandyJ]

Well I should probably wait but I got one row of my lighting plan done today after work and I am very excited with how it is turning out. This is 25% done. It is 11.5' on each side of a rafter or a total length of 7M. This is a 5M govee M1 and 2 of the 1M extension. Once done there will be 4 bays lighted on each side of the chimney.

Randy

[RandyJ]

Hey Toiletman thanks for the compliment. I got lucky today and we were not allowed to be in the building we are working on as they had a major corporate meeting and didn't want disturbance form us lowly construction people. So I made the most of it and got a friend that is out of work at the moment to come over and help me for the day. We made major progress. All of the carsiding is in place and the plywood sheeting and the shingles are all on and the trim around the roof is done too.

I did put the rain cap on buy I need to get another 3' of chimney as I am not tall enough. I also need to get some high temp silicone to seal the storm colar. Hopefully tomorrow the rest of my lights and diffuser show up. Not sure when I will be able to get that done but hopefully sooner rather than later.

Randy

[Toiletman]

I did not get as much time this weekend to work on the oven as I had hoped but I still made some reasonable progress. I managed to layout all my rafters and cut all the birds mouth cuts in them and install them. I used 8" GRK 8" construction lag screws to attach the rafters to the frame work. I also got started on my decorative carsiding and I am very happy with how it is turning out.

Randy

Finishing touches. It's looking really great, especially the wooden construction.

[RandyJ]

I did not get as much time this weekend to work on the oven as I had hoped but I still made some reasonable progress. I managed to layout all my rafters and cut all the birds mouth cuts in them and install them. I used 8" GRK 8" construction lag screws to attach the rafters to the frame work. I also got started on my decorative carsiding and I am very happy with how it is turning out.

Randy

[RandyJ]

I finally got my 16' beams today. They arrived just before I got home from work so I immediately went to work on cutting them to size and putting lap joints where needed. I then managed to talk a friend in to coming over to give me a hand putting them up. I am down to just needing to do the last 2 corner braces on the back side then install the rafters and roofing. This came together pretty quickly. I did have several hours of layout and precutting all the parts but that saved a lot of time during assembly. I am very excited to finally get the roof on this build.

Randy

[RandyJ]

Just a quick picture. I thought it looked cool with the string lights on.

Randy

[RandyJ]

Small update I managed to get all the parts I have installed on the pavilion. And fortunately tomorrow my 16' 6x6 are scheduled to be delivered. I will be very happy to have those installed. That is the one thing that truly scares me on this build. Something about trying to lift a 150# beam 11' in the air potentially by myself has me nervous. Once that is in I can put the rafters up and put my car siding on for the bottom side of the roof. I will then cover that with 3/4" plywood and then ice and water barrier and shingles. Hopefully I can get some of this done this weekend and then I have Tuesday off next week and I am hoping to hammer out a bunch then.

Randy

[RandyJ]

Well I managed to get a bit more done today. I got all the bracing in that I can at this point. I used a ratchet strap to pull the brace tightly into place and then put the metal OZCO bracket in place. I upsized the lag screws to make them more functional. I used 3.75" for straight into the beam and 5.75" for through the brace and into the beam. I am very happy with how it is looking so far. It has been going together pretty well considering i have been doing it all by myself.

I also made pizza again today. My son starts 4th grade tomorrow and he really wanted pizza today so i made that happen. I am now at 46 pizza out of this oven so i have not made as many this month but i have been working over time far more than i wanted. So that takes a lot of my free time away from me.

Randy

[RandyJ]

Ok I finally managed to get a bit of time here over the holiday weekend to work on the oven again. I had already pre cut almost all the posts. So today was basically just put all the parts in place and bolt together. I was going to try to get some help but that didn't work out so I just went for it. I had all the upright posts all cut to length a few days ago. I used a laser level and checked footing height off my counter tops. I had formed them level so I just assumed they were. After they I added 4' to that length as I wanted to lower the roof height a little bit so the beams are at like 7.5' vs 8' I want it to be a little cozy feeling. After those were all in place and braced I cut the side beams to length and did the last lap joint and the lifted them into place and tossed 2 x 5" construction screws in to hold it in place on each end. Then I finally chickened out and got a neighbor to spot me as I lifted the front beam in to place. It weighs about 130# and getting it on my shoulder and carrying it to the back yard was all I could muster. Once it was up in place I used some ratchet straps to pull it tight and then drove a 10" GRK lag screw through the corner and into the upright. So far I am very happy with how it is turning out.

Randy

[RandyJ]

Now that my base has set up for a week or so I started getting the bits and peices of the pavilion together. I wanted to have all the post bases and any other brackets to be power coated black as I think that will look a lot better. I went with OZCO so far I am happy with how they look and feel. I also managed to go get 4 of my 6x6x 12' posts and 2 of the 6x6x 10'. I started cutting up all the smaller parts and have all the braces cut and a few other small parts too. I now need to get my 6x6x8' posts and 2x6x12' rafters. I also finally found the right person at home depot to order my 6x6x16' posts. That was difficult at best. I almost changed my plan because I couldn't find someone who knew what they were doing. It was quite the challenge moving the 12' post by myself. I would guess they are over 100# each. I can't wait for the 16'ers to show up. At least I had them delivered.

Randy

[RandyJ]

I got lucky and it cooled off for a few days this weekend so I managed to get the bases drilled and filled with concrete. I rented a towable hydraulic auger. And used that to drill 12" holes 48" deep. I then poured them yesterday. Each hole took roughly 7.5 bags of concrete and I put 3 sections of rebar in each base and a 12" J bolt that was 5/8" diameter. Hopefully can get started on the structure soon.

Randy

[RandyJ]

Hey Chach thanks for the comments. I am afraid my job is about to ramp up now too. July just kinda slipped away from me and I got almost nothing done. It was either to hot to do anything or it was raining or we were on vacation. So I finally got around to laying out my roof structure that I am planning. As with almost everything I do there appears to be a bit of scope creep going on. My original plan called for a 8x12 pavilion. I laid it out and it was just feeling a bit tighter than I had originally planned. So I called a neighbor over and my wife to try to decide what to do. So I am now planning to keep the same width and extend another two feet forward. This will give me plenty of room to hopefully keep out of the rain. I think I will have a shade over 4' of roof in front of the counter tops under the roof now at this point. I will just switch the side 6x6 from a 8' to a and then add a bit to the front height to make sure that I keep the same proportion. I looked up the rafters span tables and it appears that I should still be just fine there too in staying with 2x6. Does anyone see a problem with that? It looks like about a 10.5' span roughly if I didn't goof the math.

In a slightly different note I did actually use the oven a fair bit in July. I did chicken wings twice made Tomahawk's and a total of 32 pizzas. Not bad for a fairly busy month.

Randy