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- Green roof garage costs
- Extensive versus intensive green roofs
- How much does the green roof of a garage cost?
- Tips
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Green roof garage costs
The greening of a small garage roof can cost 400 € to several thousand euros. Among other things, the prices depend on whether extensive or intensive green roofs should take place. What is that, which is better suited for the garage roof and what costs can be incurred, you will find below.
Extensive versus intensive green roofs
In principle, two different types of roof greening are distinguished. Extensive roof greening uses layers with a thickness of 6 to 20cm, while layers of up to 40cm are applied to the roof during intensive green roofs. This has two consequences: Firstly, in the intensive roof greening significantly higher plants (even small trees) can be set, the roots go deeper and thus need more soil, on the other arises - and by the size of the plants - a significantly higher weight and although up to 1000 or more kilograms per square meter.
Since a garage roof is usually not designed for such a weight, you should prefer to use the green roof of your garage to an extensive variant. These are also much cheaper.
How much does the green roof of a garage cost?
On the Internet, you can find several complete packages that contain all the material you need for your roof greening, allowing for easy self-construction. The prices for such complete sets range from € 40 to € 69 per square meter. You can read the exact prices of various providers in this house journal article on roof greening of carports. In the following table, we assume an average price of € 50 per square meter and use this average to calculate the cost of green roofs for garages of different sizes. For the calculation of the area in square meters was rounded up, since you can buy in the online trade not half square meters, but only complete.
Tips
You can read about how to green your garage roof step by step in this article.