How We Built Our House - Part Two: The Grass Roof.
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- (In case you’re wondering - we haven’t made Part One yet (the main house build) - but that’s on its way…)
It’s been ten years since we designed and built our house, so it seems appropriate to start an occasional series about it all. Building your own house has to be one of the most exhilarating and exciting things anyone can do in their lives. (It’s also expensive, exhausting and stressful too, but we wont go there for now…)
We weren’t filming anything back then, but we have a few (hundred) photos which we hope you’ll find helpful.
This one is about the design of the roof - there’s much more we can say about it, but that will have to wait. There was a leak along one edge recently - which we fixed easily. Perhaps we should put up a video about that? Apart from that - the roof has performed better than we had hoped.
Our house isn’t perfect - we made it ourselves. but it's a great house and we love it. We built all the parts in advance in the workshop (with a small crew) and then friends and family turned up and worked incredibly hard to assemble it. Most of it was put together in two weeks. It was a good time and we will always be so grateful to those who helped. (Already one has left us forever - Pam. It was a privilege to know her and count her as a friend.)
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So glad you explained that Part 1 comes after Part 2 ... thought I had missed something important!
nice job! I'm always so impressed by people who make their own homes, I really can't imagine how large of a project that must be.
"People power" love it
Ventilation is the key to longevity, this is grea and very interesting, great video, thanks for sharing
The onion bags are a touch of genius I was wondering how you were going to negate slippage.
Can't wait to see "How We Built OUr House- Part One"!!!
We should send a Thank You to the Norwegian Vikings that invented this kind of roofing when the Viking era started in Norway.
Congratulations on house roof wife family,friends & condolences for the loss of Pam.
Very interesting, please show more and more and more :-) details about your house, it's so unusual and unique.
Thank you
Very good īdēā
Amazing. Your ingenuity and creativity is just amazing.
Would love to see more of your house, it looks very interesting x
Fantastic video. I really enjoy your channel. Just wanted to leave a note to say thank you very much for sharing. Hope you enjoy the day
Cheers, Tim!
Magical. Enchanted.
Thoroughly enjoyed, thanks for sharing. We built our house just with help from family and friends too. Makes each and every corner filled with precious memories. I love the green roof wished we'd done that now.
It was a little strange looking through all the photos - remembering back to the build. Yes, memories in every corner. Thanks DixieGirl
Awesome process for building your beautiful home! It looks super sturdy and very pleasing to the eye! Thank you for sharing this wonderful adventure of building your home sweet home 🏡👍👏👏☝️🏡
This man’s voice is wondrous and it takes me places. Are you from Belgium or Denmark?
Thanks - Looking forward to part 1.
I had been wondering. Looking forward to Part 2. :-)
About Genius and good old hard work and pre planning. 💪🏽
Well done a build of a life. 🙏🏽❤️
HI, THE GRASS ROOF IS BEAUTIFUL, WELL DONE GUYS. FROM CYPRUS.
Thanks, Andreas
👍👌👏 House and roof is looking really amazing. Very well done.
adopt me. ill work on the farm for food and will stay in the rabbit paddock .
aw x)
me too . I am 70 years thou but work well.
love your way of living an the way you speak...
Wow. Well done. Time to do part 1.....please☺
Thanks Tim - that answers a lot of questions :)
That was excellent! What a great house! Would love to see more of it!
interesting video, looking forward to Part 1
Come for the learning, stay for the accent.
great. I love greenroof
your house is awesome!
Yay! Discovered your house some months ago while watching some vids on bees and i was like WoW!. No slough myself, I transformed a 1930's garage in an 'almost' passif house - there is no need for heating. Now I am patiently waiting for the ivy to cover walls and roof. It's not a green roof like yours but it ain't half bad either. And to while away the time, for inspiration i watch all your other videos. Bring on part one ;-)
thank you Johan. (No UA-cam channel?)
slouch
Very clever design and well explained!
Thanks, James!
ow i really love your roof with flowers
This is fascinating and ingenious! What a wonderful home built by loving hands. Blessed roof. ......Wait - part 2? Where was Part 1?
Still working on part 1 Bonnie : - )
Genius!
Thanks!
I need more friends!
wow.... this is too cool... i wish i hv your creativity
I love the roof.
Really nice video, Tim. I love the look of your house and the way it blends into its surroundings... looking forward to the next part.
thanks Tony
sorry guys, cant talk, i have to go mow my roof
Very interesting
You should have put a vapour barrier on the underside of the joists, to prevent moisture entering roof void!!!
Tim, I'd love to see more about your house.
thank you for the knowledge.
Excellent.i was wondering the best way to do that. Thanks for post that video. I'm over to Ireland this week, Tipperary, to look for small farm. Was due to buy one in Westmeath last week but deeds were a mess. Really looking forward to the life I think it will be.cheers
Excellent - best of luck (Start a UA-cam channel?)
timber house in Ireland, brave!
A this a great roof keeping all the heat in, a passive house to be proud of. Have you looked at the house that was built in Nantes . Patrick Nadeau’s Green-Roofed Wave Home Changes Appearance with the Seasons .
Thanks (but it's not a passive house!)
How curious. I watched your catamaran video, then find you have a grass roofed house.
Last year I bought an 8.5m plywood cruising catamaran from a guy on Gigha…and he has built a grass roofed house very similar to yours.
Thank you for sharing your lovely videos! Adopt me too! Do you take visitors? My mom's family is from Galway and we would love to see your farm.
Thanks, Margaret! (No we're not taking guests at the moment. Thanks for the offer though.)
Very good
Very intresting channel and presentation. I've buildt a sandbaghouse and just love your roof!
wow.... this is too cool... i wish i hv your creativity
Great to see this. Thanks and may you live long and happy in your home. One question: how come you didn't put in a door to go out on the roof. Going through the window will be a bit difficult when ye are in yer nineties!
There wasn't quite enough height for that : - (
Where is part 1? I scrolled through all videos (I think) and didn’t see it.
have heard about some other thatched rooves in your country where the building code required sprinklers on the roof as a fire deterent.
Lovely video, is part 1 still in the making? :)
Yes, soon : - )
wow.
Note to self: Build a door out to the grass deck/roof/patio/thing.
My family isn't nearly as cool enough to help build me a grass roof. :(
Can you trade them in for a different one?
Yes , I'd be in on that one too but I don't think anyone would want them as helping hands.
Interesting
Very crafty idea on the onion bags. I've been planning my own roof and have been stewing on how to keep things in place. How long do you suppose the material of the bags will hold up? I'm sure after they do fail the root systems will still hold everything together nicely...? Thanks!
Yes, the roots do the job within a year or two, but the bags keep going longer than that anyway
You need goats they climb on to the roof with ease and will keep the grass short and add manure to the plants and if you decide you no longer want them they make really good sausages 😂
I like where I live but, in the winter, my apartment needs daily window-squeegees and mold-avoidance. I suspect your living-roof also makes your summer days very temperate?
Sounds like something's not quite right in your apartment - or perhaps it's just single glazing?
Yes, in theory the grass/soil keeps the house cool in hot weather - but it's never been fully tested!
"People in grass houses shouldnt get stoned"
When is part one coming please?
Excellent question! We keep waiting for things to get less busy so we can go back to look at old photos, etc. Still waiting...
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I see how the rafters just follow the curve of the rooflines, but did the plywood sheathing just mate up evenly in all directions or did you have to make fitting cuts?
There's no way a rectangle can fit easily around a 3d curved shape - but it wasn't a big deal to fit them roughly. We used a jig saw mostly.
I don't think that would work in Canada , to much moisture all year round I enjoy your videos greatly they make me wish I was in that kind of environment live as you do thanks for sharing ehhh
I'm here too - there are examples of it if you look :)
That's a beautiful and very smart concept. May I copy it? I've got a house to build.
Of course - let us know how you get on
do the roots of larger plants ever cause problems? what's under the dirt, a rubber roof or something? how long is it expected to last before needing to be replaced?
Perhaps you need to watch it again? It's all in there..
very nice. I must really be out of it today, more so than I had thought. I didn't see the whole first 2/3 of the video.
edit: I think what I did was watch another of your videos then commented on this one and missed watching it. glad I did watch it, very interesting! subscribed to watch out for more.
Ha! Yes, watching just a third of the video just doesn't work as well : - )
Is the moisture an issue if the walls are cob?
where are you living? I'm newcastlewest, co limeryk
Is there drainage on the low corners or is it all tubbed in?
Drainage in the corners, originally. But I'm changing them so they overshoot instead. Less to go wrong..
I think drainage holes are the best because of the standing water that will kill the low corners. But that's just me
Very nice video! But how the water drain from the roof?
off the corners
Im wondering what nylon membrane it is on 3:32. Cant find much on google. Can you give more information?
+oikfeadd, "Cavity Drainage Membrane", www.safeguardeurope.com/products/cavity-drainage/oldroyd-gtx-geotextile-membrane
We are in the process of constructing a live roof and wonder what to use as the breathable layer? Would foam board insulation work?
Sorry, Josef, I don't know that product. What's it made from?
Ok ... this might be a dumb question to ask ... but hmmm why did you want a grass roof ? For the looks only ?
You missed that in the video - it's the easiest way to make curves on a roof. (We like the way they look too, though)
+WayOutWest Blowinblog Ahaaa ... ok ... but sound awkward to be honest ... perhaps because it is not that common ...looks good though !
What insulation did you use?
We couldn't afford sheeps' wool so we just went for rock wool and polystyrene in the floors
So where is part one... it's been a year! Enquiring minds want to know.
We need more hours every day!
I'll post some over for you :)
Did you encounter any issues with planning and building regulations?
No, the planners were happy enough. We couldn't comply with any building regs because there aren't any for this type of structure (it's on stilts too)!
That's good to hear. I think it's a lot harder to get approval for alternative building methods in the US. :(
What county are you living in
Tim
Ireland
You are telling me, you build house with green roof, without the door to it.
where is part one? link anyone??
We haven't made part one yet. But it will happen as soon as we have some time to go through all the photos
Can my company hire you installing green roof , the nuncio reality group pararangon realtors Texas.
Pvz should’ve been like this
For all your planning you haven't considered an easy access to the roof.
Wow, that looks expensive! Anything not conventional is expensive in the U.S., as if a circle or an A-frame is so foreign no one knows how to build it! I've had to change my design so many times, because the code requirements for unconventional architecture gets too expensive. Were there code hoops you had to jump through to get this built? If not, I wanna live there!
Not expensive at all, Melissa. We designed it on the backs of envelopes, I drew it out for the planners, and then we built it together with friends and family (it's still not finished). The planners were happy to see something a bit different - they didn't raise any objections at all.
You're so fortunate to be able to do what you'd like on your own land. In the U.S. it's really hard to find places like that because the counties have so many code enforcement regulations. It gets really frustrating. We originally wanted to do an earth bag home but had to scrap it because of the code regulations for a specific seismic zone. It made it just too expensive to build!
anyone else get soft undertale vibes from these people?
how did you get planning persmission are you freemasons or do you have influential freinds
A hell lot of trees were killed to create your grass roof.
1st
I'm more interested on 3D printed houses, easier, cheapier, less human work...
concrete is a nasty material though
Mikail Elchanovanich Why? It's super rock. Doesn't burn.
Thor Mentha
course, brittle, ugly, unsustainable and permanant
+Mikail Elchanovanich I've seen plenty of smooth and pretty concrete, and its relative permanence is a good thing. Why do you think it's unsustainable?
dustlesswalnut
unsustainable was a poor choice of words, more like non-renewable and non-reusable, it's difficult to recycle and because of that, difficult to get rid of. i suppose aesthetics are subjective though, it's opinionated as to whether it looks good.
Brilliant! so simple yet amazingly effective!!!!!!
thanks guys :D
Thank you!