Padfield Master Thatchers Ltd

Padfield Master Thatchers Ltd is run by Mark Padfield, who trained under a sixth-generation thatcher and has 31 years in the trade. Based at Minster in Thanet, the firm mainly covers Kent, Surrey, East and West Sussex, and has also worked elsewhere in the UK, the USA and Ukraine. It thatches in long straw, water reed, combed wheat reed and heather, most of it organically grown, and has experience of working sympathetically on listed historic buildings. Services include rethatching, repairs, rewiring and patching, emergency work, ridging, new roofs and extensions, roof surveys, fire-proofing advice, chimney rebuilding and pointing, structural repairs and project management. Mark states that he and his team are members of the National Society of Master Thatchers.