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.
How to seal a roof around a tree.
It has rubber elastisity doesn t perish in the sun around the opening the tree trunk so either can.
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.
As you can see i also have plastic wrapped around the tree above the inner tube.
Use as few nails as possible because the punctures let water in.
Seal over nails with thick paint or glued plastic patches.
Bunge cords hold it tight to the tree trunk.
Favorite answer a very goods idea is to spread butynol butynol is a roof sealing product.
I have a car tire inner tube wrapped around the tree and attached to the roof between two layers of shingles.
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A cap layer should go over the apex of the roof covering the tops of the sheets on either side of the ridge.