Traditional Grass Roof

Often called green roofs these designs feature a roof that is completely or partially covered with some sort of vegetation usually grass.

Traditional grass roof.

There are actually several ways to make your roof unique while also making great use of the space and one of the most popular are grass roofs. This thick sheeting will be the grass roof waterproofing membrane. They are very heavy so they help to stabilize the house. The advantages of turf roofs also called sod roofs are many.

They provide good insulation. Until the late 19th century it was the most common roof on rural log houses in norway and large parts of the rest of scandinavia. And they are long lasting. The load of approximately 250 kg.

Intensive roofs are more park like with easy access and may include anything from kitchen herbs to shrubs and small trees. Landen cedar logs along the eaves protect against. To attach the membrane to the roof structure use asphalt mastic. Turf roofs in norway are a tradition and you will see them everywhere.

Roofs in scandinavia have probably been covered with birch bark and sod since prehistory. Traditional roof gardens which require a reasonable depth of soil to grow large plants or conventional lawns are considered intensive because they are labour intensive requiring irrigation feeding and other maintenance. Traditional black norwegian wooden houses. These days the grass roofs are built out of tradition and simply because they look nice and fit in with the norwegian countryside.

The first step is the covering of the house roof with plastic sheeting. You can walk out from the second floor of this house onto the green roof sod roof of the first floor which creates a grass covered patio. In the past makers of norwegian log cabins would place moss in between the logs that made up the walls.