Why a green roof?

As I was researching various aspects of our earthen roof-to-be, I came across "In Support of the Earth Roof", a brief article explaining the merits of what we are doing. I thought those following our progress might find it informative.

http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/in-support-of-the-earth-roof/

It's a team effort

Though I have been doing the bulk of the work on the new place, Sandy has been doing more than a fair share altogether. She keeps the apartment together, feeds us, and then comes down to the site and works there, too!

One day she's moving earth up above the building ...

The next day she's sanding rafters that didn't get cleaned before they were put up ...


Where will she be found next?

The end (of the rafter project)

It seems like forever since I started putting up rafters, but by the end of last week the task was complete. I didn't work on them every single day, but it seemed like it.

By the time I got to the last of the three rooms which will have a drywall ceiling and not be visible I was using shorter pieces of 2 X 6's, screwed onto longer pieces, and butted together on top of beams. I did not have enough to complete the west-side bedroom so I used 2 X 8's for that room. We have plenty of 2 X 8's left over and I hope to use some of them for a feature on the outside east wall.

All of the rafters are now covered with billboard tarps so they are a bit harder to see in the pictures below.




Don't worry, the posts in the picture above are not bent though they appear to be. It's a distortion due to the shorter distance from the camera to those two posts than to the others. The whole tree posts in the top picture do have slight bends in them.