How To Build A Sod Roof House

This step would require cutting out the floor.

How to build a sod roof house. Make sure to check the roof periodically for watering and as funny as it sounds any need for weeding. To build a sod house you needed the right kind of grass grass that had densely packed roots that would hold the soil together. The sod is laid with the grass side down 21 layers in all. Don t leave sod overhanging the roof edge.

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. Two workers will usually cooperate on the same strip of the roof wide enough to be comfortably within reach. All the cracks and holes are filled with loose soil. 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.

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. Tell the operator to skim up an eight inch layer of turf then hop in the. Since i already wrote about cutting sod for my roof i will describe how the sod was loaded. 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.

Our sod house is 12 ft. It was done by cutting down into the earth about six to twelve inches leveling the ground out. Where necessary use your utility knife to cut the sod pieces to fit. The walls are two sod blocks thick staggered as bricks would be.

Once the perimeter of the roof was covered with sod we covered the rest of the roof. Build sod houses in september when the roots of the grass are deepest. So nebraska settlers would search for fields of buffalo grass little blue stem wire grass prairie cord grass indian grass and wheat grass. 2 extensive green roof.

One will lay out the bark the other will put sod on top. Pieces of sod must be laid out immediately after the birch bark to keep it in place. 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. The next task was to cut the sod into bricks.

On the outside making it 8 ft. Lay the sod place sod pieces on top of the potting soil layer across the roof. Every third layer of sod is laid crosswise to tie the inner and outer layers together. Lightly water the layer of sod placed on the roof.

Dig up the sod inside the marked area rake the dirt. Find a location that s fairly level in an area that s covered with thick prairie grass such as buffalo grass. Building the living roof.