Ultimately, around the hemlocks and in some of the extreme corners, I needed to use a ladder to get to the panel edges and screw in the special bolts that keep the panels from flying away in a strong wind, and keep rain from entering the entry hole.
While the panels were reddish in color, for some extra light inside the treehouse I mixed in clear polycarbonate panel pieces to make kind of a skylight - this also lets you see the trees from inside the treehouse. It turned out be a nice effect. When mixing panels like this, you have to layer them the right way so that water coming down from the top panel didn't make its way under an overlay panel below it. Something to keep in mind...For some of the specialized screws, especially up high by the ridge beam (which required a special ridge cap over the adjoining panels that met at the gable apex), I used a different technique for getting these screws in place. I placed the screw head directly into the chuck - i.e. no star drive or phillips head drive... I would tighten the chuck just enough so that once it was screwed in place I could just snap down and the drill would come off the screw. This allowed me to climb up high, hold myself steady on a tree or treehouse wall with one hand, and drive in the screw with a single hand. Worked great once I figured this out :)
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