A Do It Yourself Guide for the amateur, small scale building / landscaping contractor, communities groups and all who want to enliven roofs with soils and plants.

John Little of The Grassroof Company and Dusty Gedge of Livingroofs have joined forces to provide a practical guide to creating small scale green roofs.

This guide is a response to the numerous emails and phone calls that we have had over the last few years, with questions on how the average person can create a green roof, similar to those in the photographs on our websites.

Download & purchase details are towards bottom of this page.

The Guide gives details of;

• A choice of different green solutions,
• how to convert a shed so it can have a green roof,
• how to build a small scale green roof on a new bespoke building,
• details of the frame and layers to be used,
• suggestions for growing mediums,
• and the type of plants to use,
• material suppliers.

The Guide includes;

• Diagrams to aid construction,
• pictures,
• and step by step instructions.

The guide is to help the DIY enthusiast or for people to give to a small scale building contractor to realise their green roof aspirations.

We have both been involved with and built numerous green roofs. However, no guide can be definitive and we want the guide to be a living document. We will therefore also be looking for pictures and details of green roofs that are constructed using the guide so that we can integrate these into updates of the guide. All too often green roof information can be about the big installations on commercial properties. We hope to develop an online community where sharing and inspiration can lead to practical innovation in the small scale too.

How To Purchase - £11.65 incl.

The DIY Guide is only available in electronic [eBook / Pdf] form.

Please ensure you choose the correct version for your computer's operating system.

Windows Version:

How to buy a full version of the 49 page DIY Guide from your free downloaded sample.

Click on the 'Windows Version' banner below to download the free sample of the The DIY Guide to Green & Living Roofs  . What you will download is actually a copy the full guide [10.5 Mb] in secured eBook form [this shows as a Windows .exe file] archived within a .zip file. When opened and run [remember to save a copy to your computer when you download it] you gain access to a small sample of the pages for inspection.

If you like what you see in the sample and you purchase an activation key, the full version will be unlocked allowing you complete access [don't forget to save a copy of the downloaded eBook sample to your computer first]. Each activation key allows installation onto two computers so you can have a working copy of the eBook on both your desktop & laptop computers if you want.

Purchasing an activation key is made very easy: A large orange "Buy This eBook Now!" button sits at the top right of the downloaded and opened eBook sample, in the menu bar.

Click on the button and you will be able to pay via the Paypal online payment system, your activation key code will automatically be sent to you by email and you can access your full copy of the DIY Guide in no time by entering this in the window which floats in front of the opened eBook.

Do not forget to save a copy of your downloaded eBook along with a note of the activation key number!

The DIY Guide to Green & Living Roofs   

PDF version for Macs, iPads and other systems :

If you operate a Mac computer then the Windows version of the DIY Guide as outlined above will not work* - instead you can order a password encrypted Pdf version of it by clicking on the button next to the banner below which will take you to Paypal in order to pay. On completion of payment the guide and password will be emailed to you [as this is a manual process it may take up to 72 hours]. If you wish to view contents from the Guide first you can download a  free sample here. [2.5 Mb]

You will require a recent version of Adobe Reader to view the password protected full Mac version. If you do not already have a copy installed it is available free from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

*If you have VirtualPC, Boot Camp, Parallels or the like installed and have working version of Windows on your PPC or Intel Mac then you should be able to run the Windows eBook version of the DIY Guide if you prefer.