How To Build A Thatched Roof

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How to build a thatched roof.

Thatched roofing has been around for centuries as an effective way to build weatherproof roofing with materials at hand. 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. How to build a uk european style thatch roof using quickthatch melaleuca roof thatch from oznative. The building has a modern appearance despite the use of thatch for its roof a material more like to be found on old cottages and barns.

It can be found through an online review and find suitable thatcher based on quality. However before you decide to use the thatched roof make sure about the quality. The colours look a but odd in the photos above and don t really reflect reality. Determine the pitch of the roof from the peak to corner.

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. It also hangs over the eaves better. I suppose if you were keen you could use cut up towels to give the roof some bulk and shape then stick on fibres but i think the towels themselves look good. Real thatched roofs have a lot of bulk which you get from towels.

The thatched roof would need perfect quality of thatcher. Ours roof overhangs by approximately one foot on all sides determine the height from the middle horizontal support beam to the roof s peak. View in gallery also located in the netherlands the floating office is yet another contemporary structure that revives the beauty of thatch.