
#Thatching across the UK & occasionally further afield since 1985.We also do roof surveys/inspections on private & commercial thatched properties 0845-500-1986
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We don’t just re-thatch whole roofs.This section of #thatch was starting to show the fixings and was getting on the thin side. To extend its life,we pulled back the existing #Reed & inserted more to increase the thickness by 3-4 inches in places.#Thatching repairs.
Andy( one of our Thatchers) has managed to remove all the scaffolding from this photo of #TheBlackBull at #Etal by using AI. Clever stuff. #Thatching.
Visited this #Thatch property which is having an extensive internal refurb. The builders said they will fix breathable plasterboard to the rafters -vaulted ceilings.I questioned why no insulation has been specified? Roof is 270-300mm of water reed thatch. Now being investigated.
The Black Bull pub in #Etal #Northumberland has been smartened up with a new ridge. Jim, Dave and Andy are now heading south after 10 days in this lovely part of northern England. #Thatching, #MasterThatchers.
This job at #AlderleyEdge #Cheshire has been about 2 years in the making and today Dave finally made a start, laying 140 bundles of water reed. To the rear there is a new extension and all elevations have been covered with a #Firefelt. #Thatching. #MasterThatchers.
Hale village near #Liverpool airport has over a dozen thatched properties and this is the second re-thatch we have done in the village this year. Using #Ukrainian water reed Jim, Dave and Andy took just over a month to complete the #Thatching.
All complete in Newton- with- Scales near #Preston, #Lancashire-one of those unusual English village names.The owners preference was for this ridge cut. Its more decorative than we would normally do but l think suits the roof shape. We also installed new barge boards. #Thatching.
Called by to meet the new owners of this lovely property. We thatched the roof 8.5 years ago. #Thatching.
Out and about today on the M6 and M55. Just wondered why #TheHighwaysAgency has to put up signs saying “Slow, surface water” when it’s raining? #Thatching.
An awkward job tucked in the rear garden corner of this Listed property in #Weaverham, #Cheshire. Access was from a side road with double yellow lines & before we started the electric cable had to be sheathed to make it safe. A shallow pitch hence the Lead valley.#Thatching.
Small re-thatch completed in #Cheshire by Jim, Dave and Andy. #Thatching.
Client wanted more light in their en-suite and bedroom. We removed some thatch; the window fitter fitted the windows and we made good the #Thatch. #Thatching.
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Koen Turk is a very good thatcher, but he’s not from Denmark, he is from Holland instagram.com/koen_turk/?utm…
On Instagram Koen_Turk from Denmark writes, "Making a figure in the reeds is a whole art. Here we have made an anchor.” No kidding! If installing a reed roof wasn’t enough talent!
#RoofersCoffeeShop #TheCoffeeShops #RoofingProfessionals #RoofingContractors
In times when discussion about youth unemployment & those classified as NEET,is widespread, l keep meeting small employers of my generation who can’t understand why young people don’t choose to enter ‘hands on ‘ work or don’t stick with it? Yesterday it was an upholsterer.
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Oh, to be in one of bygone Britain's thatched roof village pubs while drinking beer out of a massive glass boot. This is the sort of thing that dreams are made of. 🍻⏳️
@Britains___Pubs @PubHistoryTours
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I've pieced together this incredibly rare & precious Edwardian colour movie, filmed 118 years ago at Upton Manor Farm in Southwick, England. This is the Autumn Harvest of 1908, showing rural life in the UK just 7 years after the end of the Victoria Era, when our life and work was considerably less mechanised.
This is amongst the earliest British colour films, which was made via Kinemacolour, developed by George Albert Smith in 1906. It employed a spinning 2-colour filter system of red and green filters to replicate "full colour". The separate colour frames line up pretty well, except fo shots of lateral movement, such as the horse's legs where the individual coloured filters become much more apparent.
The music I've used is the Largo movement from Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World", which is rather ironic considering the film shows us scenes of the Old World long gone.
Watch until the end, which leaves us a charming little love story. Though perhaps she waved her fellow off to War on the Western Front 6 years later...
(One of my hobbies is to collect old colour film footage, and if you enjoy this example I might share a few extra videos on my account)
Part re-thatch and re-ridge to this lovely property near #Knutsford in #Cheshire. One porch was re-thatched and another two repaired. Great job by Jim, Dave. The team are now working near #Bartle in #Lancashire. #Thatching #MasterThatchers.




































