Making A Tiki Hut Roof

Build your roof frame with bamboo poles.

Making a tiki hut roof.

Party and entertainment ideas once your tiki hut is finished. Central florida 2018 music honchograhamfrombirmingham by josh woodward. Cover the bamboo frame with palm or. Don t take safety lightly.

Measure and miter cut plywood to fit together around the four sides of the roof. Protect your diy tiki hut by searching here for flame retardant roofing materials. A saw for cutting your bamboo and other materials to the proper length nails to hold it all together gloves to prevent splinters a hammer or pneumatic tool to drive the nails a tape measure safety goggles. Cut a 4x4 to this height.

Start at the top of your roof frame and add bamboo rafters horizontally. Alternatively you can make use of already dried fronds. Our roof overhangs by approximately one foot on all sides determine the height from the middle horizontal support beam to the roof s peak. Start at the center and work your way down the size of the plywood pieces will increase as you move from down to bottom of roof structure.

Determine the pitch of the roof from the peak to corner. Constructing tiki thatch roofs the construction of diy thatch roof is fairly simple. A diy tiki hut is generous in design and provide enough space to entertain a large number of people at one time in your backyard. First you will need to chop off a set of fresh palm fronds from the tree and allow them to dry.

Add horizontal support beams. At the top end of this post cut a notch on all four corners. These are not only. Construction of an authentic tiki hut made to withstand hurricane force winds.

There are three basic materials when building a tiki hut. Use framing nails to attach the plywood to the posts. Leave roughly four inches between each piece of plywood. For a rectangular roof the simplest choice may be an a frame roof as this.

Plywood to build the bar you can then decorate the corners with segments of bamboo trunk and dress the front with.