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Green Dream

The Green Dream Gets Ready for a Green Roof

Laying down the foundation for my rooftop garden

Why bother with an unsightly and inefficient flat tar roof when you can look out the window at a teeming green garden? That's why I'm turning part of my roof green. I'll post more detail about what I'm growing and the DIY tray-based system I'm growing plants in, but before any of that can happen, the roof itself needs to be prepared to hold several inches of dirt without collapsing or flooding my upstairs. For that, I went with a multi-layer system: insulation, rigid roof board and a thermoplastic barrier.

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Green Dream

The Green Dream Gets Walls


I’m standing on top of the third floor after a very productive day of putting the Kama Eebs panels and the upper joists in place. When the panels arrived, we had just put them in piles all around my site so it was a bit of work just playing the find-and-seek game to get the proper panel to the correct wall location. But then it was just a matter of gluing and screwing the track into place, spraying foam onto both the shiplap joint and the track and tilting the panel into place. Once you have a tight fit, you screw the track and the shiplap joint together and move on to the next unit.

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