How To Build A Thatched Roof

View in gallery also located in the netherlands the floating office is yet another contemporary structure that revives the beauty of thatch.

How to build a thatched roof.

Determine the pitch of the roof from the peak to corner. 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 colours look a but odd in the photos above and don t really reflect reality. How to build a uk european style thatch roof using quickthatch melaleuca roof thatch from oznative.

Thatched roofing has been around for centuries as an effective way to build weatherproof roofing with materials at hand. A thatched pub the williams arms at wrafton north devon england. Ours roof overhangs by approximately one foot on all sides determine the height from the middle horizontal support beam to the roof s peak. At the top end of this post cut a notch on all four corners.

However before you decide to use the thatched roof make sure about the quality. A lot of professional thatcher that you can find online. 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.

Cut a 4x4 to this height. It can be found through an online review and find suitable thatcher based on quality. 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.