I want to build a dog house or shed or something small out back and I want to do a thatched roof. Anyone know of any books on the subject?
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Andy
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I want to build a dog house or shed or something small out back and I want to do a thatched roof. Anyone know of any books on the subject?
Thanks
Be well
Namaste’
Andy
It’s not who’s right, it’s who’s left ~ http://CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM
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There was an article in FHB several years ago featuring a guy in southern Cal ( I think) who created thatch looking roofs, but with cedar shingles. It looked really good without the downside of true thatching. (It was, to say the least, shingle and labor intensive, but a doghouse? Why not!)
Some people would bitch even if they were hung with a new rope.
FHB #22 (aug-sept, 1984) has a good article on thatching - -
Thanks....I'll look through my pileIt's not who's right, it's who's left ~ http://CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM
That cedar shingle that looks like thatch, and an actual thatch article are reprinted in the "Roofing" book in the Builder's Library collection. I just read them both. I think if I was a wheat farmer, I could thatch a house just following the instructions in that article. According to the numbers in the article, a little 12 square foot gabled roof would take over 100 pounds of wheat straw. If you don't have wheat, you'd need to cut a similar amount of "Phragmites communis trin" water reed. Oh, and you need sedge for the ridge.
At the end of the thatch article the author references a book called "The Thatcher's Craft" from the Council for Small Industries in Rural Areas, 141 Castle St, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England SP1 3TP
The original article is August 1984 (22:72-77)
Built up Cedar Roofing is February 1990 (58:67-71)