Hi All,
I'm about finishing my life's dream of an own home built on my imagination and plans. The house won't be too large accomodating my wife, two stepdaughers and myself having a total living space of about 200 square meters (including approximately 30 square meters for technical room for water tanks, pumps, electric distribution and automatic control.)
The electronics won't be a problem, but here is a question which arose during planning of the roof.
As everybody knows Thailand has three seasons which are the hot, the very hot and the f... hot season (which applies right now as the sun's appearant movement has it's zenith 90degrees overhead my location (14deg North)).
To keep the house moderadately cool I decided to grow lawn on top of the house with a desk type roof and about 3% of slope.
I intend to automatically water the roof using moisture sensors along the downside of the slope to indicate sufficient water downhill and open the valves whenever water is needed. Feeding water will be accomplished by PVC hoses distributing water uphilll.
(Water supply is no problem because of three water wells around the house, fed by "Khlongs" (flood control system for the rainy season)).
Most of all I'm interested in a saturated green "blanket" on top of the roof.
May be this spleen was born flying over dry areas in many countries of the world looking down on sh.. brown grass.
Has anyone of you friends experience in how to water a roof sufficiently?
Kind regards to All
Boncuk