Maintenance of Flat and Green Roofs
During any maintenance work, it is vital that safe access can be gained to the roof and that relevant Health and Safety procedures are strictly followed and any fall restraint or fall arrest system correctly used by trained staff.
We issue a recommended maintenance procedure on completion of a roof project. If you would like a sample maintenance procedure, please download the file.
Green Roof Maintenance Guides
These downloadable guides cover the relevant waterproofing system maintenance, as well as the requirements for looking after the landscaped finish, listed separately by type. Please choose from the following options: -
Extensive Green roof systems - for landscape finishes with Sedum plug plants, or XF300 and XF301 sedum blankets,
Biodiversity green roof systems - for wildflower or native species vegetation. This includes landscape finishes with Bauder native species plug plants, XF118 wildflower blanket and Bauder KS Plus seed mix
Intensive soft landscaping green roof systems - for recreational roof gardens with predominately soft landscaping (but refers to some hard landscaping).
Intensive hard landscaping - for roof surfaces with only hard landscaping present i.e. paving on support pads or gravel bedding, playtop or resin bonded finishes


Refurbishment of Lanchester School saved £24,500 in heating costs and reduced CO2 emissions by approximately 74 tonnes per year.
The Bauder Group, has achieved a first in environmental certification for two of its green roof products; ahead of any other roofing company in the UK.
An innovative housing development by Metropolitan Housing Trust has been awarded a CABE Building for Life Silver Standard...
There are two options for improving the waterproofing on a current roof; to strip off the failing system or to overlay it. In either case, the first steps are to examine the.
If we don’t have the skills to do it, common sense tells us that a job is not only going to be difficult but also risky and costly.
150 Cheapside is a new-build office development in the centre of London, offering 182,740 sq ft of office space with a roof terrace
York Hospital remains operational during roofing works to refurbish the 2000sq metre failing roof above the Oncology Ward. The roof...
Tony Russell, Deputy Director of Estates at University Campus Suffolk (UCS) in Ipswich knows all too well about the challenges of making a green building work.
A unique fastening system enables the support elements to be installed very quickly, easily and securely without any roof penetrations.
In recent years, changes to various sections of the Building Regulations seem to have conspired to make it very difficult to design and install flat roof waterproofing to upstands 