How To Make A Hexagon Birdhouse Roof
Check out these step by step tutorials on how to make your very own diy birdhouse.
How to make a hexagon birdhouse roof. Generally speaking to keep the costs down most guys and gals i know purchase 1 x 6 or 1 x 4 cedar or spruce fence material. You can make modern birdhouses or old fashion birdhouses whatever you think would look best. My version has a stepped roof that is easy to make and without any complicated roof angles. One of my favorite birdhouses is a hexagon bluebird house that mimics the traditional dovecotes with the fancy roofs and complicated angles but this version is much easier to build.
It was fun to make and it was as cute as can be. I really like how the birdhouse looks in the backyard where it sits. I want to show you one method to construct a polygonal raised roof for small structure like a birdhouse or bird feeder. Match up the corners of the octagon roof and octagon bottom.
A few months ago i thought my backyard looked kind of dull so i made a colorful birdhouse with one of these tutorials. Saw 8 pieces of dowel rod the same length about 6 inches tall to make the side poles of the birdfeeder. A completed birdhouse may look like a seamless single structure but is really made of a set of precisely fitted pieces to eliminate any gaps in the roof and walls. Glue the 8 poles into the very inside of each corner of the bottom octagon using wood glue.
While birdhouses can be made of almost any material a naturally rot resistant and hardy wood such as cedar or redwood is perhaps the most popular choice. It s rough cut and generally varies in and around three quarters of an inch thick by 5 1 2 inches wide.