Phragmites Thatch Roof

For deanne bednar owner of strawbale.

Phragmites thatch roof.

The invasive reed known as phragmites has quickly spread through michigan marshes and wetland areas. Where conditions are suitable it can also spread at 5 m 16 ft or more per year by horizontal runners which put down roots at regular intervals. It is a very old roofing method and has been used in. Deanne bednar of the strawbale studio in oxford mi shows how to harvest phragmites as reed for a thatched roof system.

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. Thatching is the process of creating a roof surface using plant material. Strawbale studio s roof is made of thatched phragmites. To thatch a roof take phragmites.

Roofs made with reed thatch are long lasting insulative and very beautiful. Phragmites australis common reed commonly forms extensive stands known as reed beds which may be as much as 1 square kilometre 0 39 sq mi or more in extent.