Living Roof House

While redeveloping our house we decided to install a living roof on our kitchen roof why you ask.

Living roof house.

If you ve been dreaming of topping your home off with a living roof but want to get the job done on your own we have you covered. Use the 1 1 2 hole saw bit to drill a hole in the middle right of the front piece. In fact it can be traced back to the 1940s in germany. Measure the roof of your dog house on each side if you have a pitched roof like mine it will be the same on both sides you can also do this on a flat roof or a one pitch roof.

When i approached him about my plans let s just say he was less than impressed. I liked the idea of having a bit more greenery in the property we live in central london 2. Cut out your roofing felt to the size of your roof. The front of the house has a door and three perches.

Though it needs occasional weeding brahler says. Using the 1 4 bit drill three small holes under the large hole for the perches. A solidly engineered roof helps protect your house against the elements of course but the one installed over sarah jack and scott harris s eat in kitchen does that and more. Our original goal with our house was to build a earth roof for it but unfortunately our choice of living in town included the choice of having a local code enforcement officer.

Since i already wrote about cutting sod for my roof i will describe how the sod was loaded. Paint the front orange and allow to dry. 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. Diy living roof dog house home family.

Egg carton like trays of red green and brown sedum perennials made the lawn look as if it rolled out of the house up the wall and onto the roof. Once the perimeter of the roof was covered with sod we covered the rest of the roof. Make a normal flat or sloped roof into a beautiful living garden. 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.

Though homeowners have recently begun to really understand and celebrate the benefits of having a green roof it s not a new concept. Building the living roof. Rebecca uses hardy sedums in her living roof birdhouses. We wanted somewhere for some wildlife to have bees etc 3.

One project a lot of people are interested in is living earth roofs. Planted with hundreds of low growing succulents the little flat roofed extension off their 1925 colonial revival helps slow down and filter rainwater runoff.