That’s the beauty of a thatched roof. Once a house has warmed up it does keep pretty much of an even temperature inside.
Our house in the UK needs more heating but is bliss in certain hot times in the year when it is sweltering outside.
Following the principles of middle eastern wind catchers for passive cooling, the escaping hot air draws cooler air from below through the straw?
In the late Nineties, my S African university had a new four(?) storey admin block that had passive cooling instead of A/C.
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Hi Corona. The roof is thatched with water reed not straw. It lasts a lot longer than straw and is grown here so very eco. I know some thatchers import some but ours doesn’t. There is a substructure under neath the thatch to which the reed is attached.
Ali can say is that once the house is warmed up it stays like that and in the summer it stays an even temperature, cooler than the outside when it’s hot out there. When the temperature outside is extremely hot and the doors open after the house has been closed up for a while, the water from the air can condense on the tiled floor and cool things down inside. It works very well.
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By straw, I meant the hollow structure as in hollow straw, well acquainted with suffolk reed and the only thatched building in London.
Understood, Corona. I didn’t mean to imply that you meant our roof was thatched with straw, necessarily. Some thatched cottages in the UK do use straw but I suppose that everywhere whatever was to hand was used.
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