To thatch a roof take phragmites.
Phragmites thatch roof.
Thatching is the process of creating a roof surface using plant material.
Strawbale studio s roof is made of thatched phragmites.
For deanne bednar owner of strawbale.
Deanne bednar of the strawbale studio in oxford mi shows how to harvest phragmites as reed for a thatched roof system.
It is a very old roofing method and has been used in.
Where conditions are suitable it can also spread at 5 m 16 ft or more per year by horizontal runners which put down roots at regular intervals.
Thatched roof is a technique of roof.
Roofs made with reed thatch are long lasting insulative and very beautiful.
Phragmites reed grass a traditional thatching plant originally from europe is the material that we are using at natural cottage project workshops and at the strawbale studio.
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 as insulation.