Floating Garden On Nmy Roof:good Or Not?

[importford]

Ok,

This is just my idea,

some people told me that I am crazy, others said, go for it, good idea.

I am going to built a house in the country side near Khon Kaen.

I am going to use roofing panels.

At a distance of about 20-30 cm higher then these roofing panels I want to construct nets that make a kind of floating carpet that hangs over my roof.

I want to let plants grow up to my roof and let them grow over my roof.

I will install a sprinkler system that will hang also on the cables over my roof (in between the plants).

Every morning and evening I will open the sprinklers: water for the plants and cooling of the roof.

This will create like a green carpet that hangs +/-30 cm higher then my roof.

It will also be a kind of isolation carpet, a natural isolation carpet and the water twice a day will cool my house also.

My wife tells me I am crazy:

1) Snakes, birds,... will nest in the plants on the roof.

2) with high wind, the plants will make a scratching noise on the roof panels

3) the plants can damage the roof panels...

I thought my idea was good.

What can I do to avoid problems with snakes and birds,...

any ideas????

[cloudhopper]

What exactly are your "roofing panels"?

What is the roof pitch (slope)?

[importford]

What exactly are your "roofing panels"?

What is the roof pitch (slope)?

roofing panels:

the cheap roof plates in grey color, concrete, about 4 mm thick.

the roof is 13 meters long x 12 meters wide.

the slope is from 4,5 meter high in the front of the house to 2 meter high at the back of the house; over a length of 13 meters.

The garden with plants will hang in nets about 20-30 cm high over the concrete roof panels or concrete roof plates.

[cloudhopper]

All those pots holding the plants are going to weigh quite a bit when full of water so you are going to need steel uprights welded to the steel roof trusses to support them all at fairly frequent intervals. This means lots of leak potential with all those penetrations through the roofing panels (which contain asbestos - use a good mask when cutting them). Sounds like a construction and maintenance nightmare to me...

[importford]

I think you misunderstood me:

I will not use plants,

plants will grow up from the ground level next to the house.

I will use climbing plants (clematis, star jasmine, trumpet vine, Pandorea Jasminoides,...)

i will plant these plants next to the walls on the ground level,

they will grow up to the roof,

I want them to cover my roof,

There will be a construction that hangs 20-30 cm higher then my roof.

First I was thinking of a kind of plastic fishing net

Easy to install and not heavy.

But people told me that the carpet of climbing plants will be too heavy for a plastic fishing net.

So now I have to think of a steel net, perhaps the steel carpets they put in the concrete???

The climbing plants will grow (weave) through this net.

It will make an isolation layer and cooling layer on top of the roof.

I will have to make a kind of construction with light steel nets that hangs over the roof (in between the walls) from one wall to the other wall.

This way the climbing plants will hang 20-30 cm higher then the roof and will not touch the roof so that the roof can't be damaged.