Traditional Grass Roof

They provide good insulation.

Traditional grass roof.

This thick sheeting will be the grass roof waterproofing membrane. These days the grass roofs are built out of tradition and simply because they look nice and fit in with the norwegian countryside. Landen cedar logs along the eaves protect against. They are very heavy so they help to stabilize the house.

A sod roof or turf roof is a traditional scandinavian type of green roof covered with sod on top of several layers of birch bark on gently sloping wooden roof boards. 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. 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. Often called green roofs these designs feature a roof that is completely or partially covered with some sort of vegetation usually grass.

The overlapping of two plastic sheeting must be at least 4 inches. Turf roofs in norway are a tradition and you will see them everywhere. 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.

And they are long lasting. The load of approximately 250 kg. The advantages of turf roofs also called sod roofs are many. Traditional black norwegian wooden houses.

Roofs in scandinavia have probably been covered with birch bark and sod since prehistory. To attach the membrane to the roof structure use asphalt mastic. Its distribution roughly corresponds to the distribution of the log building technique in the vernacular architecture of finland and the scandinavian peninsula.