The small scale green roof online guide has been designed to be user friendly on tablets and devices with smaller screens.
Small sized green roof.
Here is how to make your own small scale green roof the angle of your roof.
Greening these can create small pockets of habitat and provide added visual amenity to green space for urban residents.
Many sites that sell green roof products can confuse people.
More than forty profiles of small and domestic scale projects of all shapes and sizes include green roofs on sheds garden offices studios garages houses bicycle sheds and other small structures as well as several community projects.
The best angle recommended for a green roof is a slope between 2 and 10 but even a roof that is more sloped than 10 can have a green roof installed with the help of a specialist.
The small green roofs guide deals with any roof really but is aimed at people wanting to green up an existing shed or small extension up to 60m 2.
Sheds whether for prams bins or bikes electricity sub stations and other small buildings pepper the urban landscape especially on housing estates.
Stability of your roof.
The small green roofs guide can also be used as the basis of the design for new buildings.
Especially small outdoor classrooms summer and garden houses and even a standard flat roof.
This is why the first edition was published.
Some green roofs are installed in one large integrated section while modular green roofs use small portable planting beds placed together to create a larger green roof.
The intention of the small scale green roof online guide is take some of the mystery out of how to build a green roof.