tea house roofing material

[Lynette]

We only have a couple of small projects to finish my oriental inspired garden. I want to build a small faux tea house to hide a shed. We have found plentyt of pictures to go by , but are wondering what to use as roofing material.
Does anybody know of something easy to use that would be suitable? The structure would be 3 m long by approximately1m wide.
Thanks in anticipation.
Lynette

[Steven]

Hi Lynette,

Last year I built a simple structure over a gate into my garden. I used cedar board for the roof. Here are a couple of shots taken a while ago, I'll try to take some better ones shortly.

Gate.jpg

Gate 2.jpg

I'd love to see some pictures of your garden!

Regards,
Steven

[Booga]

Wolf Wolf. Eucalyptus bark bark Why not. Easy peasy, if its not a gable roof just cut into shingle size bits and Bob's your Aunty Dont worry about ring barking the Gums because there is heaps of them

[Bretts]

Hi Lynette
The Cowra Japenese garden found that the wooden shales deteriated over time. They are now upgrading with Copper. Sounds crazy but I am sure that is what they where using. They had done one building and they where planning to have all buildings done.
It might be worth giving them a call to get some info. If it is only a small one it could be very impressive

Here is some
http://www.euroclad.com.au/shingle-copper-cladding.html

[bonsaipotter]

Hi Lynette,

I built myself a teahouse in my bonsai garden in 2003/4 abouts. I was also looking for a roofing material that simulated shingles without the cost of redwood.
I settled on using treated pine fence pailings which I cut into sections and used as shnigles. On the ridges I used some galvanised sheeting which has worked really well. The 'shingles' have now been there for 8 years and are still in good condition. It's probably about time I oiled them or treated them with some copper sulphate but can't yet see the need.
My teahouse come potting shed is probably 3m x 3m roofline. and is a great place to do bonsi in the rain.

Cheers,
Happy Potter

P1130138 Tea house.jpg

[Damian Bee]

Nice one potter

[kcpoole]

Nice shed Potter !

Ken

[Lynette]

Thanks for all the replies.
For low cost and ease of making the treated pine shingles may be the way to go. It has to be easy because my husband is no great builder.
All the photos were also a help.
David was thinking of using bamboo over the top of fc sheeting, but I thought that was a bit complicated, but we might use the bamboo for the roof capping. Thanks again,
I will let you know what we come up with.
Lynette

[bodhidharma]

Why not spruce up the shed and add a verandah.

[rudy]

Hi really nice tea house, what does the copper sulpure do. I wish to oil my aged fence but i replaced some palings about a year ago and they are still fresh.

Anyone know how to age them naturally prior to oiling so they blend in with the rest of the fence.

Regards
Rudy

[Lynette]

Steven,
there are some photos of the back of my yard under the heading My garden. I don't know how to attach the link. If you look at the bridge photo where the shadow is, is where the tea house will be.
Having just looked at the photos I can see how much every thing has grown
Lynette