Thatched roof - the general name of roofs of buildings , the coating of which is made from straw , reed , reeds , sedge, palm leaves or other similar materials of plant origin.
This type of roof is still massively found in the hot countries of Asia, Africa, South America and Oceania. In Europe, such roofs of small private residential buildings were relatively widespread until the early 1800s [1] .
Despite many shortcomings, including fire hazard and fragility, thatched roofs are very popular in the modern West in certain circles as being considered environmentally friendly, but are mostly built not from straw because of its poor wear resistance, but from imported cane [2] . In the late 2000s, several articles about mysterious mushrooms appeared in the German press, which supposedly destroy the coverings of such roofs [3] [4] , but scientists have refuted such fabrications [5] .
A clay roof is a type of thatched roof. In 1883, the first clay roof was made on the agricultural farm of the Krasnoufimsky real school, which differed from other well-known methods of coating (for example, with straw sheaves moistened with clay) in that, when it was made, the clay solution penetrates the straws, thereby ensuring complete fireproofness of the mass, meanwhile , as the clay soon crumbles from the snopiks and then the straw can easily catch fire. Low fire hazard and low cost of production contributed to the fairly rapid spread of alumina roofs in the Russian Empire [6] .
Bibliography
- Walter Schattke: Das Reetdach. Natürliches Wohnen unter sanftem Dach - von der Urzeit bis heute . Verlag Christians, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-7672-1140-8 .
Notes
- ↑ Moir, J & Letts, John (1999), “Thatch: Thatching in England 1790–1940,” Research Transactions (English Heritage). - T. 5 .
- ↑ Dirk Asendorpf. Oben modert's . Die Zeit (August 2, 2007). Date of treatment October 29, 2011.
- ↑ Aggressiver Pilz lässt Dächer verrotten . Süddeutsche Zeitung (January 12, 2009). Date of treatment October 29, 2011.
- ↑ Killer-Pilz lässt die Reetdächer verrotten unopened (link not available) . Stader Tageblatt (January 18, 2007). Date of treatment October 29, 2011. Archived January 7, 2011.
- ↑ Reetdach – Fehlinformationen (January 12, 2010). Date of treatment October 29, 2011.
- ↑ Tanenbaum A.S. Clay-roofs // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.