It has rubber elastisity doesn t perish in the sun around the opening the tree trunk so either can.
How to seal a roof around a tree.
How to build a treeless tree house part 3 roof paint and trim duration.
Please carefully cut the tire with a sharp knife and each tube will yield two rings of rubber with a natural curve to them that will prove useful when wrapping it around a tree trunk.
Tire tubes are a good source of rubber a flexible membrane for fashioning a pipe collar like boot around a trunk that passes through your tree house roof.
Flex seal a treehouse roof duration.
As you can see i also have plastic wrapped around the tree above the inner tube.
I ve been inside it during a downpour and the trunk is soaking wet and water drips down from the inner.
I have a car tire inner tube wrapped around the tree and attached to the roof between two layers of shingles.
Bunge cords hold it tight to the tree trunk.
A cap layer should go over the apex of the roof covering the tops of the sheets on either side of the ridge.
Use as few nails as possible because the punctures let water in.