roof / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...roofs- intensive and extensive: Green roof © Ecohome An intensive green roof, also known as a ‘rooftop garden’ refers to planting areas that have a depth of 6 inches and up. Deeper soil supports a greater variety of plants such as vegetables, shrubs and even small trees. Extensive roofs are designed primarily for hig...

...roof assembly is that it manages moisture properly. Read here about why roofs need to be ventilated and how to ventilate a roof properly. Selecting a commercial green roof system: Green roof composition © Cosella Dorken With a wide array of green roof systems available in the marketplace, it’s increasingly difficult ...

...roof in a hot climate is the best plan. What’s better - a ventilated roof or unventilated roof? This is as good a time as any to tell you where we stand, which is that we much prefer ventilated roofs over unventilated roofs for durability and resilience.  An un-ventilated roof should be done either with perfectly seale...

...roofs for example, can retain much of the water that falls on them. A green roof (specifically flat ones) can add green space to an otherwise bland concrete landscape, whether that is a commercial building where occupants now have green space on site, or a home where you suddenly have space to grow food. When the volum...

...roof covering when you consider the full life-cycle of a house. The Tesla Solar Roof powers your home but looks no different than other durable roofing materials.  Further to that,  a shingle roof, metal roof, or any other composite recycled-material roofing product will not turn your lights on, nor will it fill your...

...Roof Installation The following DIY green roof video shows the steps needed to ensure your green roof will not leak. Watch more Green Building Guide videos from EcoHome on YouTube here The most common building material used for roofing in North America is asphalt shingles, and because of their poor durability they ma...

...roof insulation used to best effect: Watch more green building video on the Ecohome YouTube channel here The Ecohome's Edelweiss House LEED Platinum certified V4 roof is a 2/12 pitch insulated to R95 with Rockwool (formerly Roxul) mineral wool batts. R95 far exceeds the most rigorous Canadian building codes, and is a ...

...roofs, be certain that your roof ventilation is able to do its job.   Next, roof ventilation - make sure your attic is properly ventilated. Check the attic to make sure that insulation isn't jammed down on the edges and blocking soffit vents. Proper ventilation - proper air flow - in a roof keeps it in good dry and so...

...roof, and if your roof is covered in snow you won't be getting any power.  Elon Musk says they last 2 to 3 times longer than a conventional roof, asphalt shingles are the most commonly used roof covering and last about 20 years, so by our math we assume these will last 40-60 years. We welcome anything that takes market...

...roofs, letting water penetrate and cause damage to the interior of walls and roofs.  When snow melts on a roof it runs down until it meets the unheated bottom edge of a roof and then freezes. This chunk of ice is called an ice dam, and it can cause water to backup beneath shingles and Ice dams cause damage to walls and...

...roofs by several inches. Contrary to that, the low-profile rooftop solar roof option, which is also known as BIPV (building-integrated photovoltaics), are solar shingles or tiles that are installed directly onto roof sheathing in areas of high solar exposure, and are used in conjunction with conventional roofing materi...