Build The Roof Top Tent

Those things i do andriy determined that plywood might not be the best platform for a comfortable night s sleep and the needed foam pads drove the price up to 170 still about a fourth of the cost of the cheapest model of rooftop tent available for his vehicle.

Build the roof top tent.

If you have any. Build this rooftop tent using bamboo plywood fabric and metal tube. Then he cut and mounted a regular tarp that you can find in a hardware store to the top of the clamshell and draped it over either side. This provides full waterproof protection on a budget.

Roof top tent parts after cutting and bending at home depot. First build video is up. Finally showing the finished product. Fill the frame solid using plywood and paint the metal tube lines in white.

He created the base and top of the rooftop tent with plywood and gas struts and then mounted the whole rig to the top of his jeep compass. This is the homemade hardshell rooftop tent that i built last year. Take a look at this video if you would like to learn more about building your own rtt. It should only take a couple hours to do.

My diy rooftop tent and where i got my idea and plans. As you can see building the base is a pretty easy step.