Redbird

I had a young and eager Polish carpenter available for 3 days.  Strangely, I didn’t have any work for him but I had an idea. 

My wife and I had been thinking for some time about getting one of those garden activity centres (swing and slide) for the 2 boys.  

The plastic ones in Smyths were shite! The real ones were available from many Irish companies but started out at €1500 for the most basic.  So I drew a sketch and worked out the materials needed.

Carpenter arrived, so I sent him with €300 to get timber (pressure treated, decking timber). 3 days later and he had made this. 

 

Treehouse

It didn’t take a whole lot of imagination really but the quality of work is second to none. The swing will be added just as soon as the postman delivers a connection piece from Germany.  Its the bit that will connect the horizontal bar to the vertical legs.

The slide was an old one that we recycled however we’ve searched and they’re €100 to buy.

In total we’ll have spent about €900 on this. Its equivalent to buy is at least €2000.  Redbird isn’t selling these but we certainly can supply VERY talented carpenters (and plumbers, and brickies, and roofers, and you get the idea!)

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