How To Build A Sod Roof House

Building a sod house cut in the floor.

How to build a sod roof house.

To build a sod house you needed the right kind of grass grass that had densely packed roots that would hold the soil together. If you can t or don t want to dig the sod yourself you can hire someone with a front end loader on a tractor to do it. Tell the operator to skim up an eight inch layer of turf then hop in the. With an extensive green roof vegetation is thinner 1 6 to five inches thick and lighter with appropriate plants that will make them low maintenance and self sustaining.

The roots hold the sod bricks together during. This step would require cutting out the floor. Make sure to check the roof periodically for watering and as funny as it sounds any need for weeding. The next task was to cut the sod into bricks.

Two workers will usually cooperate on the same strip of the roof wide enough to be comfortably within reach. One will lay out the bark the other will put sod on top. Once the perimeter of the roof was covered with sod we covered the rest of the roof. All the cracks and holes are filled with loose soil.

Where necessary use your utility knife to cut the sod pieces to fit. Once the location of the sod house was picked you had to start with the first step in the actual building of the sod house. Any large slope or flat roof that s hard to reach makes a great area for this kind of vegetation as nature will take care of itself. Find a location that s fairly level in an area that s covered with thick prairie grass such as buffalo grass.

Since i already wrote about cutting sod for my roof i will describe how the sod was loaded. Lightly water the layer of sod placed on the roof. Build sod houses in september when the roots of the grass are deepest. Our sod house is 12 ft.

Building the living roof. Doing the edge was the trickiest part since i had the fold the epdm underneath itself and leave a little bit exposed to protect the edge logs. The walls are two sod blocks thick staggered as bricks would be. So nebraska settlers would search for fields of buffalo grass little blue stem wire grass prairie cord grass indian grass and wheat grass.

The sod is laid with the grass side down 21 layers in all. Pieces of sod must be laid out immediately after the birch bark to keep it in place. It was done by cutting down into the earth about six to twelve inches leveling the ground out. Every third layer of sod is laid crosswise to tie the inner and outer layers together.

For this reason the process must be carefully coordinated. On the outside making it 8 ft. Lay the sod place sod pieces on top of the potting soil layer across the roof.