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Roof Durability and Thatching Treatment

The roof must be strong, well-built, and use durable, water-resistant and wind-resistant materials as it often serves as a refuge during floods. Chemical treatment of thatch involves soaking fibrous thatching materials like catkin grass, rice straw, palm fronds, wheat, maize or sugarcane leaves in preservative solution for 12 hours, similar to soaking bamboo mats and battens for 24 hours, to treat the thatching material with chemical preservatives.

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Roof Durability and Thatching Treatment

The roof must be strong, well-built, and use durable, water-resistant and wind-resistant materials as it often serves as a refuge during floods. Chemical treatment of thatch involves soaking fibrous thatching materials like catkin grass, rice straw, palm fronds, wheat, maize or sugarcane leaves in preservative solution for 12 hours, similar to soaking bamboo mats and battens for 24 hours, to treat the thatching material with chemical preservatives.

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ROOFING

The roof often serves as refuge during flood. Therefore, it is important that the roof is strong and well-
built, in addition to use of durable, water-resistant materials and wind-resistant design.

Chemical Treatment of Thatch


o Similar to treatment of bamboo mats and battens
o Fibrous thatching material, such as catkin grass, rice straw, palm fronds, wheat, maize or sugarcane
leaves needs to be soaked in preservative solution for only 12 hours (bamboo mats and battens 24
hours).

Treatment of thatching material by soaking in chemical preservatives

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