How To Make A Round Roof For A Birdhouse

Measure the diameter of the roof circle.

How to make a round roof for a birdhouse.

Stone birdhouses are easy to make and with the right materials can be kept in the garden year round. The trick is to use a sturdy wood birdhouse as the base and attach stones with the right adhesive see below for a lasting bond. How to calculate birdhouse roof angles. We built one birdhouse with a galvanized sheet metal roof and another with a copper roof.

Draw and label a line bisecting the triangle. Glue the bottom or the longest side of the triangle to the top of the bird house roof. Then use masking tape to hold the mess together flip the assembly over apply glue in the joints roll it up and clamp with rubber bands. Allow this to dry.

Cut a triangle the width of the roof and the height you want the roof to be usually 6 inches. To assemble the cylinder first you take the staves and arrange them outside up besure they are even and square in their position. Aside from the shape of the round birdhouse one of the neat things about this project are all the options that are available when building it. Screw an eye hook with at least a 1 inch eye into the point of the wooden triangle.

Note that the sides go between the front and back of the birdhouse. Here we have roofs and bottoms attached. Draft the diagram of your birdhouse roof viewed from the side as a triangle and write the desired length of the base. Take the roof for example.

Place the wooden ball in the center of your copper cone with the pilot hole facing the top of the copper cone. It s easier than it sounds. Mark its length from the tip of the triangle to its. Don t worry though it s not a complicated process.

Glue and nail your diy birdhouse front back and sides together. Drill a pilot hole through the round wooden disk and half way into into the round wood ball. For an example. Now nail your two roof pieces together with the shorter piece on the side of the longer piece.

Learn how to make the roof of a birdhouse in this free video on making birdhouses. Nail in the support piece on the inside peak of your roof this will keep your roof in position with just gravity.