And it should look decent.
Living with a sod living roof.
If you want your roof to function as a garden and have large plants and even water features then the intensive green roof is for you.
Once the perimeter of the roof was covered with sod we covered the rest of the roof.
So did 18th century germans and 12th century icelanders who carved these sod covered homes out of hillsides.
Allowing for snow loads and your family gathering for summer breakfast on top of the house figure that the beams and rafters under a sod roof will have to carry 100 pounds per square foot.
While redeveloping our house we decided to install a living roof on our kitchen roof why you ask.
Since i already wrote about cutting sod for my roof i will describe how the sod was loaded.
Often it will be planted with sedum stonecrop.
It can be sloped or flat.
Generally an intensive living garden is more likely to decorate the roofs of commercial and municipal buildings like the chicago city hall while extensive roofs are more often found atop a residence.
Building the living roof.
That s a lot of design details to weigh but i think we developed a.
A good living roof edge detail should contain the soil on the roof while simultaneously allowing the excess rainwater to drain off all without puncturing your liner and allowing for some kind of gutter system.
An extensive green roof on the other hand is a thinner lighter version that looks more similar to a standard roof.
The earliest settlers of the great plains lived in sod houses.
1 intensive green roof.
Planted with hundreds of low growing succulents the little flat roofed extension off their 1925 colonial revival helps slow down and filter rainwater runoff.
Make a normal flat or sloped roof into a beautiful living garden.
Places like apartment complexes have extensive structures and roofs that cover thousands of square feet.
They found that the pesky vegetation that grew naturally on their rooftops provided needed insulation.
Sod roofing in bellingham wa is just one part of a greater shift.
That shift is towards unique living spaces with communal benefits.
Usually a roof slope of 40 degrees or more is required for runoff or else the living roof might end up in the home s living room.
We wanted somewhere for some wildlife to have bees etc 3.
Doing the edge was the trickiest part since i had the fold the epdm underneath itself and leave a little bit exposed to protect the edge logs.
One benefit we glossed over applies to communal living spaces.
