House Extension Green Roof

Catslide roof on sympathetic extension image credit.

House extension green roof.

Extensive green roofs are the simplest to install and are very often added to existing roofs. Used over a whole roof a green roof will be the single overriding design influence on the house as well as impacting on the construction right down to the foundations. In rural situations green roofs can be used as a smart solution to help houses blend sensitively into the setting particularly for paragraph 55 now paragraph 79 homes constructed on green belt land. Both extensions feature flat green sedum roofs that offer a striking contrast to the pitched roof of the original property.

Mark hazeldine homeowner helen was keen that the extension to her 16th century cottage should mirror the older sections of the house. Residential green roofs such as theirs protect natural waterways from oily street residue by lessening the chances that municipal storm drain systems will overflow. Depending on the source you look at these roofs may add 10 to 35 pounds per square foot to a roof s load. A green roof is in ecological terms a great and simple thing to do.

It replaces the ecology the new house sits upon thereby replacing the habitat that a house takes away. Planted with hundreds of low growing succulents the little flat roofed extension off their 1925 colonial revival helps slow down and filter rainwater runoff. A variation of the extensive green roof is called semi extensive.