Some time ago, we launched our ZenTreehouse YouTube channel and we’ve been focused on producing video content as it’s more compelling and can tell a better story, in a way, than with static pics and the blog. So, sorry I’ve ignored the blog for a while, but I’m back and want to catch everyone up…
Hello dear readers of the Zen Treehouse Blog! Well, it’s early June and we are making some great progress with only 12 weeks to go before the Zen Treehouse construction is completed. At least that’s the estimate at this stage. We’ll see as nothing has been on time or on budget this far into the…
These are the doors in the Master – 16′ wide, 10′ tall center sliders from Pella. They look awesome! The doors in the main cabin. In the next few weeks, the rest of the windows will be installed. For most of the windows, they have to put scaffolding up to be able to install them.…
We have made really great progress since the last blog, as you’ll be able to see in the video. All the floor decking is in and there is great progress on getting the decks completed. We have to finish putting the deck joists in before we can start putting up walls. The guys had to…
Hey all,I went to the site today to meet with our GC, Cary Dunn from BackCountry Builders. We had to fire our last steel guys because of lack of productivity, mistakes in the build, and, frankly, price gouging. They actually looked me up on Facebook and decided that because of my lifestyle, they wanted to…
Finally we have some vertical construction progress to report! Approximately 50% of the posts and beams for the project have been installed. The posts are 6 x 6 HSS (hollow structural sections) tubing and are welded to base plates, which in turn are bolted to the caissons. There are a total of 25 posts that…
I saw this video of a cool treehouse in Quebec Canada and wanted to share. This is a different, and more traditional approach, to treehouse design/build. Logs, reclaimed materials, etc. I think the builders did an amazing job! Let me know what you think in the comments. There is a lot I love about this…