Phragmites Thatch Roof

Thatching is the process of creating a roof surface using plant material.

Phragmites thatch roof.

Phragmites australis common reed commonly forms extensive stands known as reed beds which may be as much as 1 square kilometre 0 39 sq mi or more in extent. Strawbale studio s roof is made of thatched phragmites. 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. Thatched roofs are currently in vogue in england where weathly people are restoring old cottages which once a.

The invasive reed known as phragmites has quickly spread through michigan marshes and wetland areas. Thatched roof is a technique of roof. Roofs made with reed thatch are long lasting insulative and very beautiful. 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.

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. Deanne bednar of the strawbale studio in oxford mi shows how to harvest phragmites as reed for a thatched roof system.