People would have different type of thatched roof materials to applied.
Thatch roof construction.
Thatch is still used in some equatorial countries such as in fiji where palm leaves are used dominica with feathered palm leaf roots and kenya with sugar cane leaf roots.
It may help the rod wire to create reed layer and keep them together as the sub construction.
The binding wire is a part that we can see as chrome nickel wire.
This effectively keeps the water in small amounts as it flows over the roof.
Thatched roofing has been around for centuries as an effective way to build weatherproof roofing with materials at hand.
With a thatched roof the water is also constantly forming drops by dripping from one piece of thatch to the next.
Thatch roofing is a traditional roofing method that involves using dry vegetation such as straw water reed rushes sedge and so on to create a roof covering.
Dickie wright from rj wright and son master family thatchers explains the key elements to thatching a roof as he demonstrates his skills at the royal bat.
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.
As long as both thatch and roof structures are at the correct angle water will not penetrate more than an inch 25mm or so.