Size of the roof.
Plant used for thatched roofs.
The mayans used stones or made bricks out of mud and used grass for the roofs.
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.
The larger the property the higher the price is likely to be.
Besides it is also better for your safety and durability.
Since the bulk of the vegetation stays dry and is densely packed trapping air thatching also functions as insulation.
Thatched roofs are beautiful.
Getting a thatched roof initially installed is a labour intensive process as is a full re thatch.
Plants used to make thatched roofs.
Outside of scotland where seagrass was used the plant stalks were often a by product of.
Hazel is used as hoops to keep the reeds secured in place for a thatched roof.
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Traditionally this type of thatching was used in marshy wetland areas such as the norfolk broads and the fens where the reed grows naturally.
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Thatched roofing has been around for centuries as an effective way to build weatherproof roofing with materials at hand.
Why use thatch for a roof.
If you bundle enough of these water shedding plants together water simply cannot.
At a time when there was a shortage of roofing materials in rural england a thatched roof on cottages was common among the poor.
Water reed or norfolk reed is now commonly used to thatch new roofs as well as to replace existing ones.
Most of the materials is good enough for better roofing concept.
Thatching continues to be used in developing countries using locally sourced materials.
Plants used to make thatched roofs.
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Although roofs made from thatch are now less common in developed countries these plant stalks were once commonly used to create roofs for homes in the uk europe and scandinavia.
Nowadays the reeds may be imported from all over europe as well as from china and africa.
In fact the inside of a natural water reed is hollow.
This is no waterlogged plant soggy and bloated with water.
For the main materials people often use heather turf sedge rye straw wheat reed long straw and veldt grass.
The thatched roof in various forms has been used in tropical and temperate areas of the world.
Disadvantages of a thatched roof.
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 did the mayans make there shelter.
This process can take a good few weeks and is priced on the size of your property.
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