Grass Roof Build Up

18mm strandboard base layer.

Grass roof build up.

How to grow a lawn on a rooftop deck. The most important considerations when designing turf and green roofs are ensuring that the roof is strong enough to support the weight of the turf or plants even when they are fully saturated by rainfall and covered in several feet of snow and ensuring that the roof is watertight. And build bases in a suburban backyard. Mine and pick up clay 2x clay roof analyze a clover leaf 1x weed stem.

A green roof is in ecological terms a great and simple thing to do. I liked the idea of having a bit more greenery in the property we live. Cut down grass and pick up a grass plank 1x weed stem 3x grass plank. Build a living roof green roof.

Specification for grass wildflower roof. 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. Fake grass can withstand years of rain snow or hail without being damaged. Make a normal flat or sloped roof into a beautiful living garden.

If you have a pitched roof use aluminum green build edging to maintain the layers of your grass roof. With artificial turf you can have a putting green on your roof. Growing a rooftop lawn can lower heating and cooling costs and add visual interest to your home. If you choose synthetic turf instead of natural grass you do not need to worry about having a water supply to the roof dragging some type of mower upstairs or using pesticides and herbicides.

Increased property value roof usage can be maximised for purposes including leisure and offers unique potential for replacing the land lost to the building s footprint noise reduction for the building green roofs have excellent acoustic qualities for both external sound up to 3db and internal noise up to 8db. This might consist of building paper baiscally something to protect the underneath of the membrane. Green roof design considerations. While redeveloping our house we decided to install a living roof on our kitchen roof why you ask.

For a flat ish roof. Assume a ventilation layer over the main roof structure to building regs requirements. It replaces the ecology the new house sits upon thereby replacing the habitat that a house takes away.