How To Weave Palm Fronds Roof

Now neri starts handing up the leaf.

How to weave palm fronds roof.

Place three palm fronds onto a flat surface lining them up long edge to long edge. 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. Weave another palm frond back and forth vertically through the horizontal fronds.

Embers that blow from a high source tend to travel further so imagine palm fronds on fire blowing through the air and landing on somebody s roof advertisement. 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. Place three palm fronds onto a flat surface lining them up long edge to long edge. The mah meri are an ethnic group native to western part of peninsular malaysia.

Repeat this process with five more palm fronds making a woven sheet of palm 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. 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. The mah meri mah meaning people and meri meaning forest originally known a.

Repeat this process with five more palm fronds making a woven sheet of palm fronds.