Green Roof Instructions

This website based guide builds on the material and information in our original pdf the diy guide to green living roofs which we published in 2008.

Green roof instructions.

With a modular system like. Our sedum roofing system is ideal for g. Step two installing a root barrier. There are three different types of green roofs 1 intensive green roof if you want your roof to function as a garden and have large plants and even water features.

Up from the eave minimum of 2 ft. This online guide builds on our original downloadable pdf the diy guide to green and living roofs. Enviromat sedum matting is great way to create a living green roof and an ideal low maintenance landscaping material. Call your building inspector for local details.

Cover the rest of the roof with no. 2 extensive green roof with an extensive green roof vegetation is thinner 1 6 to five inches thick and lighter with. Buy it at roofing supply companies or home centers. Build a living roof green roof step 1.

This online guide is designed to meet the needs of diy enthusiasts looking to put a green roof on a shed or outhouse builders and landscaper contractors who want to build green roofs. The 1 by 2 foot black polypropylene trays planted four months earlier and nurtured at a. Measure one panel width in from the roof edge. The frame can be made by simply nailing the corners together or by using l brackets to form the corners.

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. At this point chalk a line from ridge to eave. Roll out the plastic root barrier across the length of the roof and cut to size. It is extremely important that this panel be laid square to the eave and ridge so that the remaining panels will line up square on the roof frame.

15 asphalt saturated felt underlayment some codes may require no. There are a number of types of living roof ranging from the one i ve made enough for some. Your roof deck be it concrete or screed will need to be waterproofed. In severe climate regions most building codes require applying it 3 to 6 ft.

The guide still contains step by step instructions on how to build a green roof on a shed an extension or a new build. Green roof installation step one primary waterproofing layer. The guide has been updated with new elements with more sketches and now multi media input such as videos. Past the exterior wall.

After doing quite a bit of reading on the internet ok well an afternoon or so i soon realised. Using rot proof timber build a frame around the roof to contain the garden. Even a flat roof should have some pitch so that it sheds water toward gutters.