Roof Thatchers In Ireland

When a thatch roof is in need of repair a new layer is often placed over the old.

Roof thatchers in ireland.

A complete luxury estate of thatched homes. It has a riverside beer garden and a restaurant. A roof thatched with water reed a more durable and water resistant material than straw can last 35 40 years in ireland with very little maintenance. With almost 40 years of experience in the industry peter has thatched roofs all over ireland.

Heritage centres throughout ireland. It has been owned and run by the same family for over 300 years and was renovated in 1962 with an inner ceiling made of irish willow twig. The old thatch pub has a beautifully thatched hipped roof and is one of the oldest thatched pubs in the south of ireland dating back to the 1660s. The largest thatching project in the uk or ireland a holiday village.

Dozens of pubs private homes and hotels. On old buildings up to four feet of thatch can accumulate. The biggest single thatched roof in ireland a hotel. A thatched roof is sturdy durable and an effective barrier against the elements and is impenetrable to bugs birds and vermin.

Peter is an award winning craftsman who qualified from the countryside agency s thatch training centre in salisbury in the uk. 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.