How To Make Your Own Roof Top Tent

These two made their own rooftop tent camper over six months.

How to make your own roof top tent.

Here is a thread to give you some ideas on how to make your own version of campers including car tops. Build the base of the tent using 4 x 8 plywood sheets. By simply housing them in a waterproof portable container of your choice then throwing that on your roof you could build your own rooftop tent on the ground setup. 4x 8 sheet of plywood base 1x4 pine for a frame 1x6 for vehicle mounting frame cut all pieces to fit then seal with polyurethane.

Listed here is simply the. The unit mounts securely to the roof of a car or suv. Aug 29 2016 looking for a fun couple s project. Its very old instructions on how to make your own roof top camper.

A roof top camper usually consists of a rigid bottom and heavily reinforced tent. Next build the tent frame with conduit and choose the best fabric for the tent portion. The tent was then fastened to the wooden platform with webbing using wood screws and washers to prevent the screws from pulling through. While you can buy these commercially they usually cost over 1 000 a young couple decided to make their own.

Building this diy roof top tent will simply cost you 100. Sorry you will have to be a member of benzworld to see the pics and to be able to access the file on how to make your own. Check out the height of diy creativity here get the plan here to build your car rooftop tent.