Traditional Grass Roof

The advantages of turf roofs also called sod roofs are many.

Traditional grass roof.

The first step is the covering of the house roof with plastic sheeting. And they are long lasting. 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. Turf roofs in norway are a tradition and you will see them everywhere.

Intensive roofs are more park like with easy access and may include anything from kitchen herbs to shrubs and small trees. This thick sheeting will be the grass roof waterproofing membrane. 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.

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. They provide good insulation. Landen cedar logs along the eaves protect against. Traditional black norwegian wooden houses.

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. Its distribution roughly corresponds to the distribution of the log building technique in the vernacular architecture of finland and the scandinavian peninsula. The overlapping of two plastic sheeting must be at least 4 inches. These days the grass roofs are built out of tradition and simply because they look nice and fit in with the norwegian countryside.

The load of approximately 250 kg. Roofs in scandinavia have probably been covered with birch bark and sod since prehistory. They are very heavy so they help to stabilize the house.