How To Make A Palm Frond Roof

Constructing tiki thatch roofs.

How to make a palm frond roof.

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. Primitive skills recommended for you. First you will need to chop off a set of fresh palm fronds from the tree and allow them to dry. Only problem is they and all the rest of the world weaves with coconut fronds.

What i really like about old palm thatch roofs is that they make wonderful palm thatch mulch. All i have is this thorny fan palm. What this does is catch every single rain drop that hits the roof. Furnace palm leaf roof hut part 1 duration.

Some extremely famous kinds of palm used are palapas from mexico thatch panels from fiji and cape reed from africa. 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. 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. Now neri starts handing up the leaf.

There s a property nearby owned by a friend full of the right kinds of palms so we simply had to have a chat with the caretaker there and negotiate a fair price. You tie on six at a time alternating left leaf right leaf with the v shaped channel facing up. The construction of diy thatch roof is fairly simple.