Nipa Roof Construction

For the mean time enjoy these picture of nipa hut in the philippines.

Nipa roof construction.

With nice front porch. The walls are all brick. Nipa finished a deck project in september of 2013 in the universi. The roof has tin roof and the owner puts a nipa material like straw hat materials or a cogon blady grass kunai grass or japanese blood grass on top the tin roof to make to look like a native house.

Through different creativity and integration let me remind you with the original nipa hut used by our farmers. Based in santa ana nipa is a general contractor. Come join us while we are putting the nipa roofs on both cabanas. They provide services such as accessibility construction patio construction storm shelter installation and other services.

It s a very nice house and the cost was reasonable. Steps in building bahay kubo scroll down for videos. Building a synthetic nipa is much simpler and faster than building a traditional one. The standard filipino column footer and four 10mm rebar column reinforcement.

We also included never before seen special bonus video of the great pyramids of the philip. The first requires minimum training if any while the second calls for skilled craftsmanship. Nipa huts were the native houses of the indigenous people of the philippines before the spaniards arrived. The roof will be of nipa the thatched leaf of the nipa palm.

Original nipa hut in the philippines. Synthetic nipa roofing is also maintenance free easier to repair and more cost effective especially in the long run. The use of nipa in thatching roofing had been slowly diminishing due to the introduction of the use of gi sheets in modern houses. These structures were temporary made from plant materials like bamboo.

Construction began on tuesday november 3 2009 with a crew of four on site. Here s a few photos. Amid the introduction of new materials in the construction of houses many still prefer to use the traditional nipa for their roofing.