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Endureed’s Bali synthetic thatch replicates natural found in the South Pacific Islands. This product is designed to look and feel like the fine grass thatch found in East Asia and is completed with thick Balinese style hips. This product has a loose eave with the finer grass loosely tapered. It has a slightly longer shingle than some other synthetic thatch. This authentic-looking, synthetic thatching is part of our Regions Series.
Endureed Synthetic Thatch’s technical director appeared on a Facebook Live video with Randy Jones, the owner and builder of Incredible Tiny Homes, recently. The live video was recorded just weeks ago. Now, it’s featured on the Incredible Tiny Homes’ YouTube channel. Nick from Endureed and Randy discussed how the high quality synthetic thatch helped make Randy’s vision become a reality.
Fire safety matters to us, so our team put our Viva and Regions synthetic thatch products to the test. Our products were tested along with two of our top-performing competitors’ products. We wanted to make sure our products are as safe against structure fires as possible.
Endureed has decades of experience and artistry put into the design of our synthetic thatch roofing products. We admired the beauty and strength of natural thatch roofs. We started the business with a major challenge in mind: Could we create a roofing system that would look and feel like natural thatch, but be capable of withstanding the winds of a hurricane?
One of the common complaints about natural thatch roofs is the potential of thatch roof mold. Molds are all around us, but they don’t have to be right over our heads while we sleep. Natural thatch, if done properly can resist it, but over time, many do develop thatch roof mold. This is so unfortunate because thatch roofing is inherently durable and beautiful. Luckily, Endureed synthetic thatch roofing looks and feels like real thatch roofing material and is eco-friendly, but is made from materials that are resistant to thatch roof mold.
Most Endureed synthetic thatch roofs end up on buildings and accessory structures for resorts, amusement parks and businesses, but that doesn’t mean a roofing contractor couldn’t build a beautifully unique artificial thatch roof for a homeowner. Imagine living in a stone or brick home, a cottage in the woods or a beachfront home adorned with a natural looking thatch roof.
A Fort Myers Beach resort in Tampa lost its roof from this past summer’s Tropical Storm Emily. A tropical storm is a cyclone with winds over 39 miles per hour (63 kilometers per hour), but less intense winds than a hurricane. Tropical Storm Emily made landfall in Florida on July 31 at 10:45 a.m. EDT, The Weather Channel reported. She unfortunately blew part of the roof off of Outrigger Beach Resort on Estero Boulevard in Florida.
Pili grass and alang-alang thatching decorates the rooftops of buildings found on tropical islands throughout the Pacific Ocean. Alang-alang thatching has been used on the islands of Bali, Timor, Sumba and others for centuries. This thatching is considered a traditional system of roofing on tropical buildings. Pili grass has been used for roofing buildings in Hawaii. It’s not clear if pili grass roofs are indigenous or were introduced from Polynesia, but this thatching has centuries of recorded use in the Hawaiian islands. The blades of these grasses are tough and strong.
