Green Garden Shed Roof

Adding a green roof to garden buildings such as sheds and storage areas reclaims the space they take up as well as improving air quality and encouraging wildlife into the garden.

Green garden shed roof.

Green roof on shed in the garden of valerie legg and simon harding bury st edmunds suffolk. Green roofs are incredibly versatile and beneficial to any garden. When saturated these layers can weigh in at more than 100kg per square metre or 20lbs per square foot. For this shed i used 3x2 softwood timbers at 600mm 2 ctrs which spanned 1 2m 4 with an 18mm 3 4 plywood deck.

This guide on how to fit a green roof will show you how easy it is to green up your back garden shed. Building a green roof on your shed is a way to add interest to the shed and produce a new area to cultivate. For a first green shed roof i would recommend that you start off relatively small. Step 1 check if it is load bearing.

Green roofs are most commonly planted onto shed roofs and prove to be beneficial in a number of ways. Green roofs can slow down the flow of torrential downpours enabling sewers to cope better. There are some things you need to check before building but the job is not very difficult. Firstly a green roof will provide an extra growing space which will provide additional colour and texture to your garden as well as providing an additional space for wildlife.

Green roofs are covered with plants rooftop gardens are green roofs all green roofs will save energy through insulation lightweight materials to grow plants in are available. You are going to be adding significant extra weight onto the shed roof so you need to know that the structure is strong enough to support it.