{"id":3997,"date":"2023-12-01T18:29:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T02:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/contessajewall.com\/?p=3997"},"modified":"2023-12-01T18:29:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T02:29:06","slug":"palapa-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/contessajewall.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/01\/palapa-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Palapa Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes,\u00a0it is finally complete\u00a0\ud83d\ude00 Colin carefully followed the construction and made a few suggestions here and there. We are confident that it will be a able to withstand high winds but not certain about a Hurricane 3 or higher.<\/p>\n

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Very heavy supporting beams. Our last palapa had cement posts.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Colin insisted that the holes be deep and also that cement was added.<\/p><\/div>\n

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We definitely needed some protection from the sun.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Love our view.<\/p><\/div>\n

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It was about this point that Colin had an epiphany. The main beam had to be raised several inches so that when leave we can actually get out. Once our engine is on the airbags start to inflate and the RV rises. Had Colin not thought of this, we would have had a major problem to back the RV out.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Once the problem was discovered and the solution found the building of the palapa continued.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The tall yellow and white house belongs to RVers Drew & Jeannie. The next white house ( closest to us ) belongs to our loverly Mexican neighbours.<\/p>\n

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It is turning out to be a larger palapa than we expected. No complaints about it though. Once the roof in front of the RV was completed we removed the large window screen.<\/p><\/div>\n

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End of the day.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The next morning the palm fronds arrived.<\/p><\/div>\n

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This old timer came along to help. He kept his unlit cigarette in his mouth the entire time. What he is doing is splitting the palm frond in half by splitting the spine in half by simply using his hands.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Half of the branch is carefully placed one at a time.<\/p><\/div>\n

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At least two layers of palms,, then heavy plastic sheet and more layers of palms, all covered by a net ( my request ).<\/p><\/div>\n

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The first set of support braces.<\/p><\/div>\n

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We decided to not have the roof come too far down so we could enjoy the full vista. I really like how my mini palms make it all come together.<\/p><\/div>\n

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If you look up, you can see a bit of a pattern from the palm fonds. Very neat.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Taken the day after the full moon.<\/p><\/div>\n

I am still in pain because of the root canal. Thank goodness for drugs.<\/p>\n

Even more palapa photos coming.<\/p>\n

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Yes,\u00a0it is finally complete\u00a0\ud83d\ude00 Colin carefully followed the construction and made a few suggestions here and there. We are confident that it will be a able to withstand high winds but not certain about a Hurricane 3 or higher.   The tall yellow and white house belongs to RVers Drew… Read more“Palapa Construction”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/contessajewall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/contessajewall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/contessajewall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contessajewall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contessajewall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3997"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/contessajewall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4035,"href":"https:\/\/contessajewall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997\/revisions\/4035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/contessajewall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contessajewall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contessajewall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}