Green Garden Shed Roof

Green roofs are incredibly versatile and beneficial to any garden.

Green garden shed roof.

Adding a green roof to garden buildings such as sheds and storage areas reclaims the space they take up as well as improving air quality and encouraging wildlife into the garden. Partly to minimise the structural requirement and also so you can find out what works for you. Firstly a green roof will provide an extra growing space which will provide additional colour and texture to your garden as well as providing an additional space for wildlife. There are some things you need to check before building but the job is not very difficult.

You are going to be adding significant extra weight onto the shed roof so you need to know that the structure is strong enough to support it. Building a green roof on your shed is a way to add interest to the shed and produce a new area to cultivate. Green roofs are covered with plants rooftop gardens are green roofs all green roofs will save energy through insulation lightweight materials to grow plants in are available. Green roofs can slow down the flow of torrential downpours enabling sewers to cope better.

Green roofs are made up of several layers typically a waterproof root barrier layer to protect the roof a drainage layer water retention mat then the growing medium and vegetation. Green roofs are most commonly planted onto shed roofs and prove to be beneficial in a number of ways. What has caused the increasing popularity of green roofs though. For a first green shed roof i would recommend that you start off relatively small.

Step 1 check if it is load bearing. For this shed i used 3x2 softwood timbers at 600mm 2 ctrs which spanned 1 2m 4 with an 18mm 3 4 plywood deck.