NORTH

1
Alternative position for top plate and bind
instead
Manuka battons
1.500
Wood bark or reeds
Manuka pins
Flax mat to cover door area
900
Floor level flax mat over fern base
2.800
Pumice base
300
500
Slope to drain away roof and porch water with
turfed surface
Wooden ridge pole and posts sitting on large
stone
150 dia Ponga
NORTH
70 dia Ponga (Stip and boil flax to bind
- or use polyprop bale twine)
2.000
Ponga Whare plan for Te Kura Toitu o Te Whaiti
Nui-a-Toi v1
For more details see web pages and
links at www.kaitiakitanga.net/projects/1-3-120p
onga20whare-energy.htm
2
Material list

• Structure 1 x ridge pole 2.800 long ( at Andys
  house)
• 2 x supporting Pou 1.8.000 long (to find eg
  old posts)
• 2 x big flat stone to put under pou
• Side walls approx 40 x ponga 1.200 long at
  150 mm dia
• 40 x ponga 1.200 long at 75 mm dia (gap fill)
• 2 x ponga top plate 2.800 long at 150 mm dia
• Rear walls approx 20 x ponga 1.700 long at 150
  mm dia
• 20 x ponga 1700 long at 75 mm dia (gap fill)
• Roof approx 60 x ponga 1500 long at 100 mm dia
• Totara bark, raupo or similar to thatch roof
  if possible
• (if not try plastic for temporary
  weatherproofing
• 8 x straight manuka 3 m long to hold thatch
• Polypropylene bailing twine or flax to tie
  down
• Manuka pegs to use instead of nails (Many)
• (need electric drill to drill holes for this)
• Note 1. put all ponga upside down so any rain
  flows out not into middle
• 2. The whare floor (pumice) should be dug about
  500 deep (soil temp)