Post #346959 by sashua on Fri, Nov 30, 2007 11:05 AM

Thanks to one and all for your responses. Bamboo Ben - that is the perfect link. I have already contacted them.

Now what is all this talk of Ultra White painting. Is that an inside joke or something?

I found all the thatch I need for the ceiling but the panels seems to come as loose thatch gathered at the bottom. How does one turn these into useable ceiling panels? I guess this is where I ask for a tutorial or where I can find it. I am pretty good with basic construction but I have to admit that I am fumbling around in the dark with a lot of this stuff. I pleaded a few months back for someone in and around New York to come out to Long Island for a fee and help me. The only response I got was from a fella named "Tiki Kev". After offering to pay him every penny of his asking price for the job and then praising him up and down for the effort - he stopped e-mailing me or returning my calls quite mysteriously. All my efforts to get assistance here have been wasted and, believe me, I have tried! So...now I am doing this myself (so I know I am working with someone I can trust)!

It will wind up being my own interpretation of what a Tiki Bar should look like but at least this forum has given me lots of great ideas and I think I will be proud when it's all over.

-Russ