Green Roof Making

Focus on keeping the elements lightweight but water retaining.

Green roof making.

While redeveloping our house we decided to install a living roof on our kitchen roof why you ask. Before the plants go up a structural engineer should check to ensure that the roof can support the weight of the engineered growing medium and plants. Use a mixture of organic and inorganic materials. Make a normal flat or sloped roof into a beautiful living garden.

It is planted over a specially designed water proofing membrane that ensures protection to the tradition roof of a building. You will need two pieces of 2x4 timber the same length as the width of the roof and two pieces the same length as the depth of the roof minus 4 inches. Green roofs serve several purposes for a building such as absorbing rainwater providing insulation creating a habitat for wildlife increasing benevolence and decreasing stress of the people around the roof by providing a more aesthetically pleasing landscape and helping to lower urban air temperatures and mitigate the heat island effect. I liked the idea of having a bit more greenery in the property we live.

Build a living roof green roof. For a green roof installation that pitch should be at least inch per foot of run. A green roof is a specific type of roof arrangement over a building that is either partially or fully covered with growing medium as well as vegetation. Using rot proof timber build a frame around the roof to contain the garden.