On the outside making it 8 ft.
How to build a sod roof house.
It was done by cutting down into the earth about six to twelve inches leveling the ground out.
All the cracks and holes are filled with loose soil.
Two workers will usually cooperate on the same strip of the roof wide enough to be comfortably within reach.
Don t leave sod overhanging the roof edge.
Once the perimeter of the roof was covered with sod we covered the rest of the roof.
The walls are two sod blocks thick staggered as bricks would be.
Lightly water the layer of sod placed on the roof.
Lay the sod place sod pieces on top of the potting soil layer across the roof.
Since i already wrote about cutting sod for my roof i will describe how the sod was loaded.
With an extensive green roof vegetation is thinner 1 6 to five inches thick and lighter with appropriate plants that will make them low maintenance and self sustaining.
One will lay out the bark the other will put sod on top.
2 extensive green roof.
Our sod house is 12 ft.
Pieces of sod must be laid out immediately after the birch bark to keep it in place.
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.
Building the living roof.
The next task was to cut the sod into bricks.
Make sure to check the roof periodically for watering and as funny as it sounds any need for weeding.
Build sod houses in september when the roots of the grass are deepest.
If you can t or don t want to dig the sod yourself you can hire someone with a front end loader on a tractor to do it.
To build a sod house you needed the right kind of grass grass that had densely packed roots that would hold the soil together.
Once the location of the sod house was picked you had to start with the first step in the actual building of the sod house.
Every third layer of sod is laid crosswise to tie the inner and outer layers together.
So nebraska settlers would search for fields of buffalo grass little blue stem wire grass prairie cord grass indian grass and wheat grass.
Tell the operator to skim up an eight inch layer of turf then hop in the.
This step would require cutting out the floor.
Any large slope or flat roof that s hard to reach makes a great area for this kind of vegetation as nature will take care of itself.
Where necessary use your utility knife to cut the sod pieces to fit.
Dig up the sod inside the marked area rake the dirt.
The sod is laid with the grass side down 21 layers in all.
The roots hold the sod bricks together during.
