Synthetic palm thatch roofing is the most beautiful and practical choice for creating a relaxed, low-maintenance exotic or tropical atmosphere, no matter on beach areas, garden patio or on a mountain timber house. Faux palm roof delivers significantly cooler shade than other alternatives, as synthetic palm roof has some performance of thermal insulation. This makes palm thatch ideal for any landscape facilities, no matter swimming pool umbrellas, beach bars, or to theme park picnic pagodas. Easy to install and maintain, our palm roof materials are long-lasting, surprisingly hardy, and able to withstand high wind and heavy rain remarkably well. We even offer options for balinese thatched coverings able to withstand heavy snow loads.

Meanwhile, due to its special structure, artificial palm thatch roof is waterproof, as they overlap on the roof, and sheds the water away, below is the inside view under the palm thatch roof structure:

Therefore, artificial palm thatch roofing is popular for construction of various sunshade projects.

Installation of plastic palm roof

For the installation of palmex thatch roof, let us discuss based on different roof structure:

Plywood bottom roof

This is most easiest, just use stables or screws (with washers) to fix the palm roof on the plywood.

Plastic palm roof's size is 100x60cm or 100x66cm.

The length is 1 meter for one piece.

Need to fix 5 screws or staples for 1 meter length.

Bottom roof by metal corrugated panel

To install wooden rafters or purlins on the metal corrugated panel at first, and then fix synthetic palmex thatch roof on the wooden battens.

To make sure the horizontal distance of the wooden battens not exceed 50cm:

Meanwhile, the upper row and the lower row distance to be kept between 10cm to 14cm.

For smaller roof pitch angle (less than 30 degrees), to reduce the spacing to make sure waterproof of palm roof.

The smaller of the spacing, the thicker of the palm roof will be.

Wooden batten roof structure

Refer to the above guideline for metal corrugated roof panel.

Other flat roof structures

For flat roof structure such as asphalt shingle roof, EPS sandwich panels, MGO roof panel, the installation principle is the same as that of plywood roof panel, it is easy to cover these flat roof structure with palm thatch.

Therefore, it is easy to install palm thatch roof for your cottage, pavilion, bungalow or palapa. Welcome you to contact us for more details!