Thatching Process
Battening
Battens are horizontally applied over the rafters and are what the thatch is attached to. The thatch is fixed by stitching, tying, crooks, or screws.
Battens are now usually made of sawn timber.
Thatching Equpiment
Binder
This machine is used to reap, cut and bind Thatching Straw into sheaves.
Thatching Abroad
Caribbean
Here the main thatching material used is Alang Alang, which is like palm leaves. It does not last as long as Straw and Reed but is the more local material!
The rick was dismantled over the winter and corn thrashed out from the straw.
Thatching Materials
Rick
Old harvesting method meant sheaves of corn were cut in the field and stored in a rick, which would have been thatched.
The rick was dismantled over the winter and corn thrashed out from the straw.
Thatching Equipment
Scaffolding
For everyone’s health and Safety, scaffolding is used for working at heights. Scaffolding for thatching works has to be lower at the eaves than usual building scaffolding.
