Misty Tripoli shows repairs to her jungle palapa, fixing leaky corners where palm grass collects and rots. Workers are extending it with a curved wood piece and should finish in two to three days. Most of the crew speaks Mayan and built the ceiling, chandelier, and floor.
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Today I've got the Palapados here making some repairs on the palapa. It's a never ending repair schedule. Living in the jungle. The jungle will eat your house, literally. So check it out. That's what they're doing today. We have to cover the pool because all this grass comes down. So these corners right here where the leaves collect, it starts to rot and then I get these massive leaks. So they're in repairing all these corners. And then over here they're extending my palapa cuz it comes right across the curve. So they got this really cool piece of wood that's literally curved to the shape of my deck perfectly. And we're extending my palapa out. I have to cut some of my banana trees down, unfortunately. But also what's really cool is most of these guys only speak Mayan and it's really awesome. Let's see how they're doing. Little view. Yep. Putting on an extension. It's going to be awesome. Can you hear their speaking Mayan? These are the same guys. This is the view from my studio. These are the same guys that did my ceiling in here. They're amazing. And hung my chandelier. But yeah, they're the ones that did this stick by stick. Gorgeous. Oh, and they laid my floor too. They build, they do all my. My carpenter builds my furniture and they do all of my big projects. Yeah, it'll open it up so much more if I do, Edgar. Yep. Yeah. And that way we can remove all of this. Yeah. And we're going to keep this one. We have to. Okay. Don't we? Yeah. Yeah. They're flying. They're getting so much done. So they should be done in about two, three days. So I promise to show you the final product. It's going to be absolutely gorgeous.