How to install a grass roof 1.
Grass roof structure.
Only a structural engineer can tell you if your roof is suitable for such work.
A green roof or living roof is a roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and a growing medium planted over a waterproofing membrane it may also include additional layers such as a root barrier and drainage and irrigation systems.
Used over a whole roof a green roof will be the single overriding design influence on the house as well as impacting on the construction right down to the foundations.
Before starting the installation of such a roof it is imperative that you ask the advice of a structural engineer.
Its distribution roughly corresponds to the distribution of the log building technique in the.
Install the plastic sheeting.
It replaces the ecology the new house sits upon thereby replacing the habitat that a house takes away.
In this guide we take you through the main considerations around choosing a green roof system how to design it to meet your needs and then we cover green roof construction.
A green roof is in ecological terms a great and simple thing to do.
Types of green roof green roofs are sometimes referred to as living roofs grass roofs or sedum roofs but these all relate to the same thing.
A sod roof or turf roof is a traditional scandinavian type of green roof covered with sod on top of several layers of birch bark on gently sloping wooden roof boards.
Check the roof structure.