How to Build a Tiki Bar Roof

Building a tiki bar roof at your garden patio is good idea to bring tropical flair for your life. It will help you create relaxed place to entertain your friends. You'll have lots of friends when they find that your house is the ultimate destination for tropical drinks under palm thatched roof, cape reed thatched roof or other types of synthetic tiki thatch roof, singing, BBQ, or having dinner, etc.

Tiki bar roofs are fun to build and to decorate. Tiki bars begin with a basic wooden structure and a roof, and they are always the joy of sourcing and adding decorations—artificial bamboo sticks, palm roof, other types of thatch panels, rattan weave ceiling mat,—than about fancy woodworking and big-ticket building materials.

Our synthetic products for tiki bar roof construction:

Our products will play positive roles for building a tiki bar structure:

1. Synthetic thatch roofing

● Simulated palm leaf roof

● Artificial cape reed thatch

● Faux reed thatch roofing

2. Artificial bamboo mat for tiki bar ceiling decoration

Tools for tiki bar construction:

To build a tiki bar structure and the tiki bar thatch roof, following tools are needed:

• Staple gun

• Scissors

• Measuring tape

• Utility knife

• Oscillating sander

• Circular saw

• Cordless drill

• Speed Square

• Pencil

• Putty knife

Steps for building a tiki bar and the thatched roof:

1. Do carefully measuring.

2. Ask your architect to your tiki bar or tiki hut style and decide whether you need a wall for your tiki bar or not

3. Construct the base of the tiki bar using wood, cement, nails, etc. Make sure the bottom of the tiki bar is strong.

4. At the stage of the tiki bar roof building:

• According to your area's temperature, and your aesthetic evaluation, decide which type of synthetic thatch roofing to use.

• If what you choose is waterproof palm thatch roof, there is no special request for the tiki bar roof bottom. Wooden battens as rafters are okay.

• If what you choose is not waterproof synthetic thatch. It is better to use plywood as the bottom of the tiki bar roof, and then install waterproof fabric or asphalt waterproof membrane on it to avoid water leakage.

• Install the synthetic thatch roof then.

• For the non-waterproof thatched roof, as the bottom is plywood. To make the ceiling looks better, could install synthetic bamboo woven ceiling panel for decoration.