Living roofs, also known as green roofs, and sedum roofs have seen a huge spike in popularity in today’s eco-conscious world, over recent years, and it is easy to see why. Often created from sedum, a living roof offers a number of benefits. If you are considering adding a sedum roof to your garden building, read on to learn more about how it could benefit you, and the environment.
Swift Unlimited annexes and garden rooms are tailored-made to suite your specific needs, including size and design requirements. Each of our buildings are bespoke, including the placement and size/style of windows and doors, floorplans, layouts, cladding and even roofs!
Why add a green roof to your garden room?
There’s no denying it, a high-quality sedum roof is a thing of beauty! With eye-catching blends of reds, pinks and greens, the aesthetically pleasing nature of green roofs can really add to the overal style of your annexe or garden room, as well as being a natural-looking and attractive element within the overall garden design.
In addition to the feel-good beauty element, a green roof also, of course, helps to camouflage the roofline of your garden building so that it blends into the garden landscape more naturally.
Other Benefits of a Living Roof
Living roofs are not only beautiful, but they also have an array of benefits for you and the environment.
Air Quality
Whether your Swift building is a new home for mum, a space to entertain, or a dedicated space to work out or work from home, it’s a great feeling knowing that you are doing good for the environment too. Your fabulous green roof will improve air quality, resulting in carbon reduction.
Rainwater Absorbtion
Green roofs are also great at absorbing rainwater – resulting in a huge reduction in precipitation run off. The little plants and eco system also filter pollutants from rainwater. What’s not to love about all these ecological benefits!
A Haven for Wildlife
Just imagine, a beautiful succulent garden on your rooftop can’t help but become a sanctuary for bees and other insects! Sedum green roofs provide an abundance of flowers providing valuable support for the pollinator population. As well as helping pollinators, a green roof can support butterflies and birds. In built up urban areas and cities, where there is little greenery, this is particularly valuable.
Increased Insulation
A living roof on your garden building can also help reduce energy consumption, by improving thermal performance. The layer of sedum acts as an additional insulative layer helping to keep your garden room or annexe comfortable year-round. Warmer during the winter and cool during the warmer months. Because of this insulative quality, a sedum roof can also naturally help improve sound proofing / reduce noise pollution.
A few examples…
Here at Swift, we pride ourselves in using high quality products on our garden rooms, annexes and extensions. Our stunning living roofs are provided by Green Roofs Direct. Their wonderful coastal sedum blankets, are cut and shipped to us directly from Ireland.
