Thatched office
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This was recently built about 200 metres from my house. Okay, so I live in a barn conversion and there are a couple of thatched cottages further down the road, so I guess this was designed to blend in. I'm not entirely convinced though.
It's an interesting idea, but I think it's somewhat let down by the basic brick structure underneath...which has all the visual panache of a flat-roofed, 1960s school block.
From certain angles it looked like a haystack fell outta the sky and landed on an office building.Any thoughts?
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I blame 'Thatcher'...
john
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what is maintenance on thatch like in your area / country?
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I don't have any personal experience of thatching maintenance, as I've got a slate roof...an old slate roof...held on with copper nails. I'm halfway through cleaning off the old horsehair pargeting on the underside of the slates, before I start on a loft conversion.
The cost of the commercial thatching can't have been cheap, though. Several lorries full of thatch came over from central Europe; and the thatching team was Dutch.
This site gives some details. They seem to suggest that thatching costs from scratch are somewhat over £100 per square metre. http://www.thatching.net/future-thatching/ -
That building ... Ewww.
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