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Harryshill H
Harryshill Oct 23, 2012 17:19:39
Replying to Littlestone

Littlestone wrote:
Harryshill wrote:
I don't understand how this has become a problem. Thatch has a known life span and a replacement budget should have been programmed in.

£80,000 seems a lot of money for replacement thatch. I reckon they must be thinking of using reed rather than what would have been originally used, or have I got that wrong.

‘Programmed in’ – you must be joking. How many programmes ever think that far?
The council I worked for had, new build, maintenance and replacement budgets.

Thatch has a life of what 25-35 years?.

No big surprise that it's going to need replacing on a regular basis.

T tjj
tjj Oct 23, 2012 17:38:34
Replying to Harryshill

Harryshill wrote:
Littlestone wrote:
Harryshill wrote:
I don't understand how this has become a problem. Thatch has a known life span and a replacement budget should have been programmed in.

£80,000 seems a lot of money for replacement thatch. I reckon they must be thinking of using reed rather than what would have been originally used, or have I got that wrong.

‘Programmed in’ – you must be joking. How many programmes ever think that far?
The council I worked for had, new build, maintenance and replacement budgets.

Thatch has a life of what 25-35 years?.

No big surprise that it's going to need replacing on a regular basis.

Sorry to sound like a philistine but does a new roof have to be a thatch ... the Barn is after all an educational centre (someone's going to tell me its listed now and I am a philistine). I've only been in there a couple of times - on both occasions borrowed someone's NT membership card otherwise it's prohibitively expensive.