How Green Horizon Eco Solutions Can Help With The Installation of Your Green Roofs
Our experiences team provide the professional fitting and installation of new green roofs in Durham, Newcastle, Darlington and across the North East. The most commonly known benefits of green roofs include sheer aesthetic pleasure, water absorption and stormwater management.Furthermore, green roofs also provide increased insulation, climate cooling, sound/energy reduction and habitat creation for local wildlife.
It’s not just a Sedum roof that can be attractive, have you considered herbs on your roof or vegetation specially selected to attract bees and butterflies?
Green roofs can perform a vital role in helping cities adapt to the effects of climate change by reducing the need for artificial cooling in hot weather and attenuating or capturing rainwater runoff, as well as providing a range of habitats for urban wildlife. At Green Horizon Eco Solutions, we are happy to advise you about the best application for your project.
Do a Green Roofs need maintenance?
To maintain a rich green roof, it is important to conduct maintenance twice a year. Sedum roof maintenance consists of inspecting the roof for weeds carried by the wind and if necessary and applying fertiliser to the vegetation blankets. Roof drains should also be checked and cleaned if necessary.
From this, you can expect a professional and courteous service that will endure for the whole process. At this point, we will take your contact details and discuss your requirements, timescales and the process to give you a little insight before our meeting.
We can also build bespoke garden structures as above with a green roof incorporated into the design.
Where could I have a green roof installed?
Having a green roof, whether it be on your garden shed or summerhouse, for example, can make them a focal point of your garden or property. They can visually be a thing of beauty and also a way of contributing to reducing one’s carbon footprint. They also provide valuable natural habitat for many insects, invertebrates and plants. Other buildings and structures that can have green roofs installed include:
Areas Covered Include
Garages
Sheds
Dog Kennels
Summerhouse
Porches
Other Services Offered
Log Stores
Small Extensions
Bin Stores
Other Benefits of Having a Green Roof
• Slowing the flow of surface water from rooftops into the drainage network; thereby, helping to reduce peak demand and incidence of flooding by source control.
• Natural filtration of surface water run-off.
• Develop greater levels of natural evapotranspiration by increasing levels of vegetation.
• Improved thermal insulation.
• Sequestration of CO2 by photosynthesis.
• Protection of roof membranes from UV degradation and weathering.
• Improved levels of bio-diversity to include replication of natural habitats for creatures such as honey bees.
• Promotion of urban green space and a feel-good factor gained from this.
What Type of Roof Designs Are Available?
Extensive roofs are designed to produce the same benefits as semi intensive and intensive green roofs. They have a tinner soil profile which means less weight which in turn means no to minimal structural modifications. Sedums and mosses are most suitable for this type of green roof. A typical weight of 50kg per m2.
Extensive:
Semi intensive roofs have a profile of 4 – 6 inches, this allows more variation in planting from the extensive roof and partial structural works depending on your existing roofs construction. A typical semi intensive roof can have as much as 200kg of weight per 1m2.
Semi Intensive:
An intensive roof has a lot deeper of a soil profile, 6-8 inches which allows more plant diversity, from wildflowers to plants and shrubs but this also requires a significant amount of structural reinforcement work to the existing roof to allow for the extra weight, typically
250kg per 1m2.
Intensive:
We can also build bespoke garden structures as above with a green roof incorporated into the design.
From this, you can expect a professional and courteous service that will endure for the whole process. At this point, we will take your contact details and discuss your requirements, timescales and the process to give you a little insight before our meeting.
Boundaries
We will also take several measurements and photos:
• Trees
• Existing features
• Garden buildings
• Aspect and soil conditions
Consultation
The consultation will result in a client brief that details:
• How you would like to use the space?
• Discuss your specific requirements.
• Features
• Plant preferences
Other Eco Services
Woodland Management
Natural Flood Management
Green Roofs
Bio Retention Systems
Field/Lawn Drainage
Wildflower Meadow Establishment
Wildlife Ponds
Green Walls
