How To Make A Roof With Palm Leaves

Making palm leaf roof shelter using large palm leaves branches and rope.

How to make a roof with palm leaves.

There s a property nearby owned by a friend full of the right kinds of palms so we. Furnace palm leaf roof hut part 1 duration. The leaves are then removed from only side of the stalk while the other side remains as is. The cahune palm leaves are much longer.

Preparing the palm leaves for the thatching the hale roof duration. Palm leaves on the car port roof duration. 3 days for doing frame work 3 half day for cutting and stacking palm leaf 3 days for keeping palm leaf on frame and doing the loft. The number you need total and the number you need to leave unsplit depends on the size of your roof.

Newly collected coconut palm leaves. The construction of diy thatch roof is fairly simple. Pruning not murdering crape myrtle family plot duration. So if you are making a roof yourself get the longest leaves that you can find.

First you will need to chop off a set of fresh palm fronds from the tree and allow them to dry. Palm trees don t require the resources that many other trees require to grow so their carbon footprint is minimal. Alternatively you can make use of already dried fronds. Toby tune 14 431 views.

Primitive skills recommended for you. Next you have to split almost all of the leaves in half. Jul 31 2012 accessing the palm fronds for the thatch roof turned out to be one of the easiest things we ve had to do so far. Affordability is a key factor for both.