It is a very old roofing method and has been used in both tropical and temperate climates.
Thatch wheat straw roof.
Less well known is that the straw which is especially grown for thatching is mainly wheat straw and not of the same variety as now being seen harvested with a combine in the fields in the summer.
The ridge of a thatched roof bears the brunt of the weather and generally requires attention every 12 15 years.
Combed wheat reed is used to describe thatch that has either been cleaned out using a hand comb or more likely today been passed through a machine known as a reed comber.
Rye is a cereal grain similar to wheat but with a habit of growth yielding stalks almost twice as high as wheat.
Either yealming out long straw.
Aesthetically it would have better design rather than other types of roof.
The germanic immigrants to this area brought with them the custom of rye straw roof thatching.
Thatching straw was a bye product of cereal production and oat barley rye and wheat are all cereals.
Water reed has made inroads into both types of cereal thatch but long straw has suffered at the hands of combed wheat reed as well.
Combed wheat might stand for 20 to 40 years ad long straw will reach 15 to 25 years.
Thatched properties that are left empty or only used for several months of the year tend to suffer more from animal pests who enjoy the peace.
This position has been reached mainly due to a myth.
Or looking for those elusive fine bundles of water reed.
Combed wheat reed is no longer a bye product of cereal production.
Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw water reed sedge rushes heather or palm branches layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof.
The thatcher can cope with any roof shape without spending hours.
The leaves that make up the thatched roof allow hot air to flow upward reducing heat and humidity.
Which needs to be dispelled.
Since the bulk of the vegetation stays dry and is densely packed trapping air thatching also functions as insulation.
That roofs in long straw do not last as well as the other main thatching materials.
Thatch is still employed by builders in developing countries usually with low.
Thatch is a cost effective roofing material that provides ample shade and insulation to your building structure.
All ridge work is constructed using long straw regardless of whether the rest of the thatch is rendered in water reed long straw or combed wheat reed.
Nowadays cereal varieties are grown with short straw which would be hopeless for thatching roofs.
Combed wheat reed this material also called devon reed or wheat reed or wheat straw is used for thatching roofs and for the majority of ridging work.
