First time posting. Been creating a 40 acre farm with 10 acres brings a traditional farm using permaculture practices whenever I can and very slowly turning the other 30 acres of existing old age (not that old it’s Illinois) into a food forest. Started by planting 1000 fruit trees randomly around it.
To my question. My next build isn’t traditional like my barns and house have been. I’m building a root cellar probably out soil bags to hold the walls in and attaching a cob studio guest house coming out of the hill side using cob.
The root cellar will likely have to have a stronger roof because it will have a fair amount of heavy clay soil above it but I am concerned about the roof for my cob building. The walls will be fine but I’m unsure just how beefy the ceiling will need to be. I can calculate the dirt load for my living roof and I can separately calculate the snow load but is the snow shed going to act different because it is shedding off of soil and vegetation instead of traditional roof material.
Is it going to melt a lot faster and waterlog my living roof instead of shedding like normal and resulting in extremely heavy wet dirt with a snow load on top?
Also kind of concerned that because I’m making the cob building shoot out of the hill of my root cellar is the snow going to shed down the hill onto my roof creating a build up spot? I won’t always be around to knock snow off the roof and need to make sure it can handle worst case scenario.
Thanks in advance
Adam
