How To Make A Palm Frond Roof

First you will need to chop off a set of fresh palm fronds from the tree and allow them to dry.

How to make a palm frond roof.

What this does is catch every single rain drop that hits the roof. You tie on six at a time alternating left leaf right leaf with the v shaped channel facing up. All i have is this thorny fan palm. The construction of diy thatch roof is fairly simple.

Constructing tiki thatch roofs. How to make small basket with palm tree leaves duration. There are so many leaves all with channels facing up that a drop has nowhere else to go but be directed off the roof toward the edge. Some extremely famous kinds of palm used are palapas from mexico thatch panels from fiji and cape reed from africa.

What i really like about old palm thatch roofs is that they make wonderful palm thatch mulch. Furnace palm leaf roof hut part 1 duration. Primitive skills recommended for you. Alternatively you can make use of already.

Now neri starts handing up the leaf. But i needed to repair my swing and so let s see what happens. Over the years the roofs collect debris from falling leaves as well as break down themselves so that when they come down the palm part of the roof can be chopped up to make some great mulch and the round timber used to make or repair raised beds.