England's thatched roofs 03:58. GRASPING AT STRAWS is all the rage among a growing number of British homeowners, as Mark Phillips now shows us: When it comes to housing design, it's hard to get ...

CLERMONT — Twenty years ago, Val Deer lived out of his pickup, traveling along the Panhandle coast single-handedly building beachside huts for resorts. Later, he got himself a larger dwelling… ...

Q. I have an 11-year-old house in Tewksbury I built myself. It has a hand-split, rough-sawn, cedar-shingle roof. When it was first installed, and every two to three years since, I have had Penofin ...

Additionally, the thatched roof is pitched at a 45-degree angle, covering most of the brick facade, in order to maximize rainwater runoff and direct it to an existing aquifer.

Perhaps the iconic image of developing-world poverty is a small collection of huts with thatched roofs. Unfortunately for those living in such places, these roofs are terrible. They leak and, when ...

Thatch roofs are a traditional building technology in Ecuador for good reason – they keep a home cool and the reeds can be sourced locally. Unfortunately, thatch has become much harder to ...

DONABATE, IRELAND – Seamus Heaney, enthralled with the work of a roof thatcher, wrote that the man worked for days, “pinning down his world, handful by handful … and left them gap… ...