HAIRY HUTS - Three Grass roofed holiday chalets at Gryti Oldevatnet, Fjordland, Norway
by Neale And Judith Clark
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HAIRY HUTS - Three Grass roofed holiday chalets at Gryti Oldevatnet, Fjordland, Norway
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Neale And Judith Clark
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Hairy huts - Three Grass roofed holiday chalets at Gryti Oldevatnet near Olden Sogn og Fjordane Fjordland West Norway Europe
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A green roof or living roof is a roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and a growing medium, planted over a waterproofing membrane. It may also include additional layers such as a root barrier and drainage and irrigation systems
Green roofs or sod roofs in northern Scandinavia have been around for centuries
A sod roof, or turf roof, is a traditional Scandinavian type of green roof covered with sod on top of several layers of birch bark on gently sloping wooden roof boards. Until the late 19th century, it was the most common roof on rural log houses in Norway and large parts of the rest of Scandinavia.
Roofs in Scandinavia have probably been covered with birch bark and sod since prehistory. During the Viking and Middle Ages most houses had sod roofs.[3] Churches and other buildings with steeper roofs were covered with boards, wood shingles, or lead.
In rural areas sod roofs were almost universal until the beginning of the 18th century. Tile roofs, which appeared much earlier in towns and on rural manors, gradually superseded sod roofs except in remote inland areas during the 19th century
In modern turf roof construction, bitumen roofing felt combined with dimpled plastic drainage membranes are usually used in place of birch bark. Bitumen roofing felt is nailed to the sarking and a dimpled cavity drainage membrane is laid over the top (dimples face down) to form a drainage layer. The turf is then laid over this drainage layer. Turf roofs are still widely used on newly built cabins in Norway.
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January 26th, 2020
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