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How to Build a Treehouse | This Old House

Kevin O’Connor begins a labor of love at the Belmont Victorian: a tree house for the kids.

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Kevin O’Connor begins building a tree house for the kids at the Belmont Victorian. Norm Abram builds a ladder, Tom Silva lays decking, and Kevin installs balusters. After a big team effort, the tree house is complete and ready for the kids to enjoy.

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This Old House is America’s first and most trusted home improvement show. Each season, we renovate two different historic homes—one step at a time—featuring quality craftsmanship and the latest in modern technology. We demystify home improvement and provide ideas and information so, whether you are doing it yourself or hiring out contractors, you’ll know the right way to do things or the questions to ask. Our experts including general contractor Tom Silva, plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey, landscape contractor Jenn Nawada, master carpenter Norm Abram, and host Kevin O’Connor give you the tools you need to protect and preserve your greatest investment—your home.

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  • The neighbors are going to love having kids looking into their yards.

  • My sisters and I built our own treehouse from lumber scraps laying around the site from the house my parents were building. That, a few cheap hammers, no saws or power tools and a TON of 10d nails from the local hardware store. It wasn't anywhere near as sophisticated as this but it was three levels, between three trees. The bottom level was enclosed and the if the number of nails used was any indication, it was quite sturdy. Of course there were no safety rails on any of the levels up in the trees. We needed that lumber to make more levels and we used our own common sense to avoid falling. Yeah we had a couple mishaps, but we spent days out there during the summer figuring out how to make what we had work. It's one of my favorite memories of being a kid.

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