Roof Me Take Thatch

The type of fixing used depends on what the thatch is being attached to.

Roof me take 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. The original thatched roof is attached directly to the roof timbers. The binding wire is a part that we can see as chrome nickel wire. Thatch is still employed by builders in developing countries usually with low.

Most of the reed used in british thatched roofing today is imported usually from hungary. The rod wire shank and hem wire would be used for sewing or screwing the roof. A roof covered using the standard method of thatching consists of layers of thatch commonly known as courses. An average re thatch will take 6 8 weeks.

A re ridge will normally take 1 2 weeks again this will vary on how complex the pattern is and whether. It may help the rod wire to create reed layer and keep them together as the sub construction. Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw water reed sedge rushes heather or palm branches layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof. It is a very old roofing method and has been used in both tropical and temperate climates.

This will also vary with the amount of thatchers working on one roof. Bundles of reeds are fixed to the timbers angled downwards at about 20 then piled on top of. The unpredictable winter weather also plays a large part in how long a full re thatch will take. People would have different type of thatched roof materials to applied.

When thatch is being attached directly to the roof timbers. Tie the four corner boards together by nailing in cross members extending from each corner parallel to the ridge pole and 24 inches apart. Roof thatching used to be a by product of agriculture but now it s grown specifically. Build the roof structure for the thatching by nailing a 2 by 4 inch piece of lumber from each of the four corners of the building up to a center ridge pole that runs parallel to the ground.