It is amazing the amount of Tiki Bar
and Tiki Hut materials that are available on the Internet and at
locale building supply house's. Most of what I have found on
the Internet is EXTREMELY OVERPRICED! There are a few that
have reasonable prices so make sure you research before you buy.
Beware of the shipping costs as well.
I will be including the products that
I find for my Tiki Bar and ideas that you may want to use on your
project. Many of the items were found at thrift shops and flea
markets. Remember to always barter on the price to get the best
deal.
Photos of The Tiki Hut Materials
(Click for larger versions
of the thumbnails)
This is a
pretty cool product to use for a rustic island type
covering. It is pretty inexpensive compared to the
overpriced "Tiki" products on the Internet. Most of
it is ridiculously overpriced. Too many rich
folks are building Tiki Bars is my guess.
It is
bamboo sliced into slats and joined with wire. It is
actually material used to build a duck or goose
blind. Would be great to cover a inside wall or the
outside of a bar. Considering the size and the fact
that you can cut it down makes it a fantastic value.
It comes
in a roll that is 15' long and about 6' high. I
think that it would last outside a bit longer if it
was coated with urethane or some sort of water
sealer. Don't use Thompson's Water Seal, it sucks
big time and does not last as long as the cheap
stuff.
This is the what it
looks like when I propped it up against my pool access deck. Of
course you would position it higher. Possibly about 4 or 5
inches above the top rail.
I think this stuff is
a steal at $35.00 a roll. Contact me if you are interested and I
can steer you to the source I got it from. Thanks go out to
Clint my hunting neighbor that found this great stuff.
Taking Down the
Garage- Page One
Our Tiki Bar will
be built from the remains of this building. A good friend wanted
this out of his backyard, so I and some other friends are going
to tear it down and use the wood we can salvage to build the
Tiki Bar.
The left side has a bunch of crap
some buddy of his brother abandoned there. This is the first to
go beside the road in the trash. We did salvage a nice
insulated storm door and some wood shutters.
My friend Mike giving
me the grand tour. The guy that built the shed was
kind of a lazy ass. He put this shed in the
middle of the yard and then fenced on both sides.
Half of the yard is still behind the shed. When it
is gone he will have a huge backyard.
There should be plenty of
salvageable wood for our Tiki Bar project. Some of the wood has
termite damage so that will go beside the road or to the dump.
The walls look like reverse board
n batten
to me. The bottom foot and a half is rotten from water
damage so we will cut that off.
Many of the 2x4 pieces
of lumber were rotten or unusable. No problem, 2x4
pieces are cheap. I wanted to save as many of the
2x6 and 2x8 pieces as possible.
Yummy yummy, nice rafters for to
build with. BTW these were real fun to disassemble without
destroying them.
This is a shot of the back of the
building. The drainage was not done correctly so water would
stand and started rotting out the bottom of the wall.
This is shot from the
back of the building towards the back of the house.
See the gate the previous owner put up. Don't know
why he did it, the goat never went back there.
This is the right side of the
shed. The contents will have to be moved else ware. Again this
is not his, but someone else using his shed for storage.
This side has been walled in with
what looks like OCX (chipboard) and the bottom of it is damaged
in places.
Another shot of the
same room, just a different angle.
The ceiling was also boxed in with
same type of paneling. This is going to one hell of job to
disassemble, move and store until the Tiki Bar can be built.
