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Green Roof
May. 4th, 2024 02:37 pmR. and I did the 3 mile loop.
So, our house had a green roof over the pool, and a green roof over the garage, in earlier versions. However, the green roof over the pool has since been replaced with pavers (specifically, Tile Tech, and this is foreshadowing of the Had I But Known variety).
But the green roof over the garage has still been in play and causing us all kinds of problems because of the issues with water supply. We had to delay the 3rd well to post-concrete for Reasons, so we don’t really know how much water we have to work with and that will impact how much storage we have to had in the house. If we have any green roof, apparently they really kinda need to be irrigated for establishment and then during drought periods. This doesn’t sound like a great idea and I am resistant. The engineer who has been such a relationship management problem keeps circling back to But Do We Need More Water Storage For the Green Roof. I sat down with R. and talked through How Bad Do You Want a Green Roof. Answer: not bad enough to have more water storage in the house for irrigating it type needs. Good answer.
Also! In Thursday’s financial meeting, I learned that the roofer looked at the green roof proposal and said, that’ll void the roof warranty I thought you were gonna put in a tray system. We’re all like, what’s that. I had the good sense to say to the architect we need to talk about this _but not here and now_. So I called the architect yesterday and we talked and I talked to R. (See above paragraph about water). And _then_ I started looking for what the heck this tray system might be.
Turns out it’s Tile Tech. They do a modular green roof. How did I not know. I will note that when I found it and tried to understand how their modular green roof stuff works, I did not at that point realize/remember that the deck over the pool was going to be Tile Tech. I just knew it wasn’t a green roof any more for Reasons (don’t remember those, either, but thinking it might have been concerns about weight over the span of the pool, which, fair). But by the time I fully grasped the beauty of the Tile Tech modular green roof system, I was like, hey, we’re doing decking on the roof over the pool; can we use Tile Tech there? And it turns out we already are, which leads to another question: wait, does that mean we can have some green roof back over there, too?
We went through a whole Thing a few months ago about a retaining wall. It was kinda tall and it gave me flashbacks to being a JW and going door to door in Richmond Highlands and seeing really amazing rockery walls buckling and talking to homeowners about the cost of fixing/replacing them. These are not good memories for anyone. The builder was proposing a cheaper solution with some kind of engineered “stone” and the landscapers were kinda freaking out and we went back and forth on the whole thing and then the site engineer was, let’s just terrace it. Which is what R. wanted to do all along.
This Tile Tech modular system has a lot of the feel of that conversation.
Also, the garage roof is in a place that gets a lot of sun, and I keep thinking, but why can’t I have one of those big solar panels on a stick things? I love those. We’ll see.
So, our house had a green roof over the pool, and a green roof over the garage, in earlier versions. However, the green roof over the pool has since been replaced with pavers (specifically, Tile Tech, and this is foreshadowing of the Had I But Known variety).
But the green roof over the garage has still been in play and causing us all kinds of problems because of the issues with water supply. We had to delay the 3rd well to post-concrete for Reasons, so we don’t really know how much water we have to work with and that will impact how much storage we have to had in the house. If we have any green roof, apparently they really kinda need to be irrigated for establishment and then during drought periods. This doesn’t sound like a great idea and I am resistant. The engineer who has been such a relationship management problem keeps circling back to But Do We Need More Water Storage For the Green Roof. I sat down with R. and talked through How Bad Do You Want a Green Roof. Answer: not bad enough to have more water storage in the house for irrigating it type needs. Good answer.
Also! In Thursday’s financial meeting, I learned that the roofer looked at the green roof proposal and said, that’ll void the roof warranty I thought you were gonna put in a tray system. We’re all like, what’s that. I had the good sense to say to the architect we need to talk about this _but not here and now_. So I called the architect yesterday and we talked and I talked to R. (See above paragraph about water). And _then_ I started looking for what the heck this tray system might be.
Turns out it’s Tile Tech. They do a modular green roof. How did I not know. I will note that when I found it and tried to understand how their modular green roof stuff works, I did not at that point realize/remember that the deck over the pool was going to be Tile Tech. I just knew it wasn’t a green roof any more for Reasons (don’t remember those, either, but thinking it might have been concerns about weight over the span of the pool, which, fair). But by the time I fully grasped the beauty of the Tile Tech modular green roof system, I was like, hey, we’re doing decking on the roof over the pool; can we use Tile Tech there? And it turns out we already are, which leads to another question: wait, does that mean we can have some green roof back over there, too?
We went through a whole Thing a few months ago about a retaining wall. It was kinda tall and it gave me flashbacks to being a JW and going door to door in Richmond Highlands and seeing really amazing rockery walls buckling and talking to homeowners about the cost of fixing/replacing them. These are not good memories for anyone. The builder was proposing a cheaper solution with some kind of engineered “stone” and the landscapers were kinda freaking out and we went back and forth on the whole thing and then the site engineer was, let’s just terrace it. Which is what R. wanted to do all along.
This Tile Tech modular system has a lot of the feel of that conversation.
Also, the garage roof is in a place that gets a lot of sun, and I keep thinking, but why can’t I have one of those big solar panels on a stick things? I love those. We’ll see.