Making A Tiki Hut Roof

Party and entertainment ideas once your tiki hut is finished.

Making a tiki hut roof.

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. Start at the top of your roof frame and add bamboo rafters horizontally. Add horizontal support beams. 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.

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. For a rectangular roof the simplest choice may be an a frame roof as this. Use framing nails to attach the plywood to the posts. Measure and miter cut plywood to fit together around the four sides of the roof.

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Protect your diy tiki hut by searching here for flame retardant roofing materials. Build your roof frame with bamboo poles. Determine the pitch of the roof from the peak to corner. Cover the bamboo frame with palm or.

Constructing tiki thatch roofs the construction of diy thatch roof is fairly simple. At the top end of this post cut a notch on all four corners. For the tools you ll need to gather. Our roof overhangs by approximately one foot on all sides determine the height from the middle horizontal support beam to the roof s peak.

First you will need to chop off a set of fresh palm fronds from the tree and allow them to dry. Plywood to build the bar you can then decorate the corners with segments of bamboo trunk and dress the front with. Leave roughly four inches between each piece of plywood. Construction of an authentic tiki hut made to withstand hurricane force winds.

Alternatively you can make use of already dried fronds.