First the thatch is tied in bundles then laid in an underlayer on the roof beams and pegged in place with rods made of hazel or withy.
How is a thatched roof made.
This process can take a good few weeks and is priced on the size of your property.
Size of the roof.
The type of thatching used in english cottages varies depending on the region.
The minute you lay one it slowly starts to rot.
Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw water reed sedge cladium mariscus rushes heather or palm branches layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof since the bulk of the vegetation stays dry and is densely packed trapping air thatching also functions.
This is normally acceptable.
This can save a lot of work in the long run.
Thatched roofing has been around for centuries as an effective way to build weatherproof roofing with materials at hand.
Disadvantages of a thatched roof.
If a thatched roof is well made water will only penetrate to about 50 mm which is about 20 of the whole depth.
Getting a thatched roof initially installed is a labour intensive process as is a full re thatch.
Dickie wright from rj wright and son master family thatchers explains the key elements to thatching a roof as he demonstrates his skills at the royal bat.
To this day thatched roofing is still used in green house construction as well as roofing for outside structures such as landscaping huts and poolside cabanas.
The thatch above windows or in a valley is often thus.
A steeply pitched roof is of the utmost importance.
Then an upper layer is laid over the first and a final reinforcing layer added along the ridgeline.
Thatched roofs have become part of the very fabric of the english countryside depicted in paintings photographs and other media.
Its undercoats the original layer of thatch.
A thatched pub the williams arms at wrafton north devon england.
Types of roof differentiate by the material way to install and other factors.
Thatched roof often used for unique exterior design for new house model.
E xperience has shown that a roof structure with a minimum pitch of 45 degrees is necessary for a successful thatched roof.
Somerset this roof was made in the local tradition.
However the thatched roof is quite unique and old to applied.
Since the dry thatch will have a longer life it s possible to strip off the top layer every ten years or so but leave the lower layers in place.
A thatcher will take into consideration the following.
Thatched roofs last around 30 years.
Many roofs have areas near or below this minimum pitch.
50 to 55 degrees of pitch is more desirable.
The larger the property the higher the price is likely to be.
