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A thatched roof can trundle along looking great needing very little maintenance for many years. The opposite can happen, too. Storm damage, birds, moss, lichen and time can all play their own part in creating maintenance jobs on a thatched roof. Your climate, and micro-climate can play its part as well. When small maintenance jobs appear it is best to get them seen to.
Using traditional materials to ensure the integrity of your heritage asset.
Bluestone
Usually required every 8 – 12 years.
Monitoring your roof to ensure small maintenance jobs don’t end up being large repairs.
The thatch on your eaves, barges and windows can slip a little so it is imperative to dress all of these features to tighten everything up if this does happen. This task is done with a thatching leggett. There is a skill in it to get it right. This should also be done whenever you get a new ridge, or any other major repairs. Dressing the eaves etc will help prevent any major slippages in the future.
Holes and soft patches can, and do appear. If two thousand water reed bundles went onto your roof there will surely be a bad bundle or three. Plus birds can cause holes. Flying objects can cause holes too, when driven into the thatch by the wind (think trampolines). Good access makes these repairs handier to carry out. The taller and more complicated the roof, the harder it is to carry out the repairs.
It is an unknown why moss and/or lichens appear on some roofs and not on others; and parts of a roof and not on the rest. All we can do is put up with it, spray it to kill it, or spray it to try and prevent it. Moss does not always damage the roof but it can look unsightly.
The passing of time does create the need for maintenance. Jobs pile up if left. Jobs like painting the chimney, tightening the wire netting on the ridge and adding wire pins as the ridge ages and shrinks. Re-patterning the ridge, too, if required. You may need none of these, but they can happen.
Mike Davies thatches exclusively using water reed. Water reed is sustainable and environmentally friendly. It is the ultimate green-roofing material. To learn more about water reed, and roof thatching, please click the button. This will take you to our links page where you will find online resources to view and read.
