Gum Pole Roof Construction

Northern poles and thatching.

Gum pole roof construction.

Building and fence poles. Thatching and fencing laths. This man was spacing setting and nailing blue gum poles to the main rafter. Mint road cca treated round pole 100 x 1800mm select nearest.

We supply treated timber and wooden poles as well as thatching grass and cape reed fibreglass ridging and all hardware necessary for building a thatched roof or lapas. However they warp and split easily. The steps to pole building success are simple. Filter by product classification.

Please be aware that we do not build these structures for you the kit comes with instructions and has been designed in such a way that anyone can put it together. Is a pole yard and supplier of h4 treated poles and thatching material in the north of pretoria. The eezi over roof structure kit is a complete diy roof structure kit containing everything needed to erect the roof structure excluding the poles. Many species of eucalyptus from which gum poles are obtained are very fast and straight growing hard woods.

Cca is an acronym for copper chrome and arsenic. Pole construction is another new addition to the nbr sans. Most pole barn roofs are made from metal roofing because they are inexpensive easy to install and last a long time. You will notice that the last table above is for gum pole rafters.

Create a level base pad if you want more than just the earth underfoot set poles vertically into holes in the ground connect them across the top. The copper and chrome compounds in the mixture is the. Each poles diameter is measured at the top thin side and then divided into these basic categories. Dimensions suitable for building construction are obtained by harvesting the still immature trees.

A metal roof is also much better than shingles or rolled roofing if the structure is large especially in areas where it snows. Filter by product use. Red 50mm 75mm yellow 75mm 100mm blue 100mm 125mm white 125mm 150mm orange 150mm 175mm no tags 175mm 200mm all our poles are cca treated and sabs approved. If this method of construction is used softwood poles must comply with sans 457 2 and hardwood poles must comply with sans 457 3 and all poles must be treated in accordance with the requirements of sans 10005.