[Greenbuilding] Green roof drainage question

[Marilyn]

Dear Asian Man 
with the same unusual family name as my not-a-drop-of-Chinese-blood  Grandparents:
(We can still pretend we're cousins and confuse everyone thoroughly - besides I like 
having cousins)

That's an idea worthy of your usual creative thinking.  Where would be a good source 
for doors?  Could I go to the city dump and get them, or ?

<(^o^)>
~marilyn



> On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:59:08 -0400, Marilyn <cybercrone at eol.ca> wrote:
> 
> >  green roof put on the addition to my home,
> 
> > ground level is only about 2 inches below the door sill where I go out  
> > there.
> 
> 
> Dear Occidental Woman  
> -with-not-a-drop-of-Chinese-blood-in-her-entire-family-who-mistakenly-thought-she-was-a-cousin-of-mine;
> 
> I think that I'd look at creating a dam around the vicinity of the door  
> (say minimum of 1 metre wide by 1.5 metres out from the wall) that is aout  
> 20 cm higher than the maximum snow accumulations that would be experienced  
> and enclose the "door well" with a light structure made of  
> diverted-from-the-wastestream patio doors. (There are bazillions of 20-30  
> year old tract homes and high-rise apts in the Greater Toronto Area which  
> had single-glazed, aluminum-framed patio doors installed (ie two layers or  
> single-glazed doors--4 leaves for an opening) many of which are probably  
> ripped out annually and replaced with insulating glass units and they  
> usually end up getting tossed. 2 openings-worth of discarded doors and a  
> half-dozen sticks and you've got your doorwell enclosure. A DIY project  
> that could be done quite easily some weekend).
> 
> The sidewall panels could be designed to be popped out for the non-snow  
> months if desired.
> 
> The enclosure provides shelter to keep rain and snow away from the entry  
> to the house and an airlock entry to boot.
> 
> -- 
> === * ===
> Rob Tom
> Kanata, Ontario, Canada
> < A r c h i L o g i c  at  Y a h o o  dot  C A >
> (manually winnow the chaff from my edress if you hit REPLY)
> 



Cybercrone
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