How To Make A Palm Frond Roof

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.

How to make a palm frond roof.

All i have is this thorny fan palm. Alternatively you can make use of already. How to make small basket with palm tree leaves duration. 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.

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. Primitive skills recommended for you. But i needed to repair my swing and so let s see what happens.

First you will need to chop off a set of fresh palm fronds from the tree and allow them to dry. What i really like about old palm thatch roofs is that they make wonderful palm thatch mulch. You tie on six at a time alternating left leaf right leaf with the v shaped channel facing up. Constructing tiki thatch roofs.

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. Only problem is they and all the rest of the world weaves with coconut fronds. 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.