Thatch Roof Construction

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.

Thatch roof construction.

This effectively keeps the water in small amounts as it flows over the roof. With a thatched roof the water is also constantly forming drops by dripping from one piece of thatch to the next. People would have different type of thatched roof materials to applied. Since the bulk of the vegetation stays dry and is densely packed trapping air thatching also functions as insulation.

It may help the rod wire to create reed layer and keep them together as the sub construction. 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 binding wire is a part that we can see as chrome nickel wire. As long as both thatch and roof structures are at the correct angle water will not penetrate more than an inch 25mm or so.

Thatched roofing has been around for centuries as an effective way to build weatherproof roofing with materials at hand. Thatch is still used in some equatorial countries such as in fiji where palm leaves are used dominica with feathered palm leaf roots and kenya with sugar cane leaf roots.