Have you ever wanted to plant a green roof.
Green roof a frame.
The quality of a greenhouse largely depends on its roofing as a good greenhouse roof can provide a number of benefits in the form of minimized heat loss reduced heating cost effective heat retention at night and enhanced yield of your plants.
Make a normal flat or sloped roof into a beautiful living garden.
Note that it is not like a traditional roof garden in which planting is done in free standing containers as well as planters that are placed on an easy to access roof terrace.
It also reduces energy usage by keeping your home both warmer and cooler and can muffle noise.
Some are easier to use steeply sloped roofs than others.
While redeveloping our house we decided to install a living roof on our kitchen roof why you ask.
There are a variety of solar greenhouse designs including a frames shed roofs and gable roofs described in more detail in the year round solar greenhouse.
Build a living roof green roof.
Place rafters at 2 intervals.
A green roof is a green space that is created by adding various layers of plants and a growing medium to the top portion of a traditional roofing system.
A frame greenhouse roof framing an a frame greenhouse is another diy greenhouse type that is fairly easy to frame.
You require 2 x4 for the rafters cross rafters and the top ridge.
I liked the idea of having a bit more greenery in the property we live.