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.

How to build a sod roof house.

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. Pieces of sod must be laid out immediately after the birch bark to keep it in place. So nebraska settlers would search for fields of buffalo grass little blue stem wire grass prairie cord grass indian grass and wheat grass. The walls are two sod blocks thick staggered as bricks would be.

Dig up the sod inside the marked area rake the dirt. Find a location that s fairly level in an area that s covered with thick prairie grass such as buffalo grass. One will lay out the bark the other will put sod on top. 2 extensive green roof.

Build sod houses in september when the roots of the grass are deepest. Two workers will usually cooperate on the same strip of the roof wide enough to be comfortably within reach. Our sod house is 12 ft. The next task was to cut the sod into bricks.

The sod is laid with the grass side down 21 layers in all. 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. Make sure to check the roof periodically for watering and as funny as it sounds any need for weeding. Building a sod house cut in the floor.

Since i already wrote about cutting sod for my roof i will describe how the sod was loaded. Where necessary use your utility knife to cut the sod pieces to fit. All the cracks and holes are filled with loose soil. 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.

On the outside making it 8 ft. This step would require cutting out the floor. The roots hold the sod bricks together during. Tell the operator to skim up an eight inch layer of turf then hop in the.

Every third layer of sod is laid crosswise to tie the inner and outer layers together. Don t leave sod overhanging the roof edge. It was done by cutting down into the earth about six to twelve inches leveling the ground out. For this reason the process must be carefully coordinated.

Building the living roof. Once the perimeter of the roof was covered with sod we covered the rest of the roof. Lightly water the layer of sod placed on the roof.