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NitroX
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Re: African thatching grasses / reeds & species ?
18/09/03 12:44 AM

I do have something in mind - a long range project or two. Probably not realistic but you never know.

One is an existing building that is an old cottage from about 1850 with a corrugated iron roof but was originally thatched.

The second would be a new building with tall walls - trophy room/gun room etc. It would be really nice to have an old fashioned thatch touch.

I took maybe a hundred photographs of the inside and outside of various thatched roofs, the framework, the thatch material and also buildings uinder construction.

Though I wonder how the building regulations woudl cope

with it.

At first I thought thatch is an old outdated method of roofing, but it is very good insulation keeping the rooms cooler in summer and warmer in winter. Dry and also reasonably durable reportedly lasting for twenty years or more.

As for the cost of labour and source of it, well I have some ideas on that too.

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African thatching grasses / reeds & species ?	NitroX	15/09/03 02:30 AM
Re: African thatching grasses / reeds & species ?	Bakes	15/09/03 10:38 AM
Re: African thatching grasses / reeds & species ?	NitroX	18/09/03 12:44 AM
Re: African thatching grasses / reeds & species ?	shakari	20/09/03 04:10 AM
Re: African thatching grasses / reeds & species ?	cooch	21/09/03 11:52 PM
Re: African thatching grasses / reeds & species ?	gryphon	15/09/03 06:13 AM

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