My feeling is that using thatch as a roofing material will allow you to take out some of the discrepancies. I have A-frames in my house that were clearly green when they were worked (most are oak, which would have been a nightmare to work dry with hand tools) and they are twisted in every direction. There are a lot of old buildings here (including my own house) and often the timbers have warped, sagged or were simply not straight to begin with. ![]() Maruf Miliunas wrote:Here are the problems the guy mentioned yesterday: I hope someone comes along soon to give you lots of great advice because I would really like your project to be successful! It's amazing! If our ancestors could find a way to do it so can you! Please keep us posted on your progress. I place a lot of heavy weight on it, cinder blocks and bags of concrete and let it continue to cure for as long as possible before I use it. I pick out the straightest board I can find with the straightest grain to bring home but within days it is starting to warp badly! Now whenever I buy wood for a project I bring it all home and place it on pallets in a really tight pile in the sun, under a tarp. Now when I look at lumber at the store I'm pretty convinced it was probably a growing tree a week ago. Over the years they have cut back the curing time even more. So the lumber we bought back then was fully cured and most, but not all of it would remain pretty straight. Then they were placed in a building (still banded) where they would continue to dry out and cure for a few months. Then they banded them together and kiln dried them for several days. Back in the day, like 50/75 years ago they used to cut the trees into 2x4s, 2圆s etc. I have built lots of stuff out of lumber over the years. I have the limbs all leaning against my garage drying out and several of them are twisting and bowing as they dry. I can't address most of your questions but I do know a bit about 'green' wood. And it is not so important that they be structurally sound because they are only for shading my plants. But they will be tiny compared to your project. So I am letting them dry out and planning to build several shade structures in my gardens that will be similar to what you are building. Your project looks AMAZING! I keep looking at your pictures in astonishment! We had a heavy snow here this past winter and I had a couple of dozen large limbs come down off my juniper trees. Is there something else I haven't though about that could cause issues, I would like some additional perspectives. I possibly spent the most time on this part of the process. I drilled halfway into the rafters at each joing, at least 4-5cm deep, drilled offsets, which alternate directions left/right going up the roof and added wedges into both ends of the pegs. The battens are pegged with a 5/8" dried oak peg in each rafter. Here I posted last year how I constructed the roundwood rafters. Does anyone have advice how to level a wavy roof or how to work with it? He told me last year to try to get it as level as possible and we'd find a way to fix it. Having laid down the battens on my first half of the roof, I see why it's helpful to have everything as even as possible and why I've only been able to find information using dimensional rafters, however, I decided to work with what I have and can get access to, plus, building this structure is a learning process for me, full of mistakes and lessons, I couldn't have learned without some kind of experience. He said: "You should never use dowel joints for a roof construction." Why, I do not know.The battens should be perfectly even from one to the next all the way up the roof. ![]() ![]() Here are the problems the guy mentioned yesterday: I returned to find an abundance of green pine, when they cleared that same forest, which I thought suitable for battens, thus I built the remainder of the front side of the roof using only green wood. Last Fall, was year 3, when I constructed the roundwood rafters and started building the battens from mostly dry wood found in the pine forest until winter came and I left the structure as is until this Spring. My goal is to build a house from sustainable materials as much as possible without nails. ![]() If I go another route, what are my roofing options on an uneven roof? Should I continue trying to build a reed thatched roof or consider an alternative? He was drunk and without inhibitions let loose his doubts about my way of building my roof and it added uncertainty to my situation going forward. I had a talk with the guy who was supposed to cover my roof with reeds.
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