Roof landscaping. Why the green roof is so attractive? Green is shining in the morning dew, deeply green, mottled flowery, autumnal yellows, breathing, filled life, naturally messy or sleek, every time it is different. All the descriptions of plants roof depends on owners liking, day and the year time - this is a merit of green roof.
When the cities are expanding there is growing number of buildings too and in thins way the needs of the people are changing. One of them is to use modern comfort and do not lose connection with nature. People need not only a functional home, but psychologically attractive and close to the nature too. Because of this there are very big demand of parks and green zones. In these times the building is clearly emerging trend - appearing concrete constructions cannot change the nature, they should go together and adapt to it.
Together with attractive appearance planted roof has a long row of ecological, economic and social advantages, because of which they are created on various size and purpose buildings and it does not matter if it is a wooden garage , garden cabin, residential house, administrative, business or factory building.
Extends the roof age.
Plants covering makes a good roof protection from external effects such as sun's UV rays, rain and sudden changes of temperature. With usual roof covering when the night temperature is below zero and in the day time suns heat the covering till 80 degrees, daily temperature fluctuations can reach about 100 ?C degrees. In the case of plant roof plants and plant seed bed reduces all these temperature changes several times and because of this increasingly extends roof hidroinsulation serve time.
Saves energy.
Planted roof has better thermal features both in winter and in summer time, there are saving indoors heating especially conditioning expenditure.
Keeps the rain water.
Rainfall and long rains make a lot of damage for houses, garages and other buildings, it is a well known problem. Green roofs keeps from 50 to 90 percents of rain water. Some part of water is absorbed by plants and layers beneath the plants, the other part evaporates. Increased inertia let us go with a simpler and cheaper water drain systems, reduces flooding risk, in this case city sewer system is not burdened.
Improves the work of sun batteries.
If you are going to build a solar collector on your garage roof you should know that solar batterie's efficiency depends on environmental temperature. Planted roof are not heating up, so sun batteries works with maximum effectiveness.
Protects from noice.
Roof spaces covered with plants are natural sound insulators and absorbs the sound better than other solid surfaces. The green roofs reduces reflected sound until 3dB and improves sound insulation till 8 dB. It is felt especialy in the buildings found near the airports, noisy factories or night clubs. Even the rain is not knocking to the roof, but is pleasantly rustling on the plants.
Frreshes the air.
Plants helps to filter, keep dust and smog from the air. Roof vegetation and substrates absorb all the nitrates and other toxic materials.
Protected and created recreational areas.
In planting the roof there are compensated all the green spaces lost in building time. In many europe cities, where is no ground excess it is necessary condition. There is a possibility to instal additional recreation areas, playground, playfield and alike.
Your log house, wooden garage and other garden buildings can be a part of nature. It will create a green and beautiful areas in every wishing place. Plants are natural environmental medium for animals, so you will have not only your own garden but a small zoo too. There will stay insects, birds are returning and house comes alive.
