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Green Roof Maintenance Grosvenor

Living roof, wall and roof-garden maintenance

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Keeping Green roofs, living walls, roof gardens & podiums tip top, forever

All types of living roofs, living walls, podium and roof gardens require regular care to meet their divergent needs, starting from installation. This ensures they remain stunning, weed free and safe for residents; and that irrigation, drainage and waterproofing are in peak condition. P&P’s expert teams are trained to the highest standards to support all green infrastructure and to work safely at any height and situation.

  • P&P’s free Consultation Service assesses your maintenance requirements.
  • P&P’s free Green Doctor Service diagnoses any issues with your installation and prescribes remedies.

How can Pritchard & Pritchard help you?

Living roof maintenance

Green Roof Maintenance

There is no such thing as a no-maintenance living roof. Like any ground-level garden, if left alone, nature will soon take over. Different roofs require different maintenance regimes. Intensively planted roofs require more visits than lower-maintenance brown or sedum roofs.

  • Living roof maintenance

Roof garden & podium maintenance

The image shows one of the roof terraces at Carolyn House in Croydon, showing planters, paving, decking, slate-top bar etc. all installed by the P&P team.

All gardens, whether on the ground floor or the 90th floor, need regular maintenance. However, the unique nature of podiums and roof gardens requires specialist care, not just to ensure they stay beautiful, but also safe for users and the building.

  • Podium maintenance
  • roof garden maintenance

Green wall maintenance – modular

Image shows the Prichard & Prichard green wall installation crew on platforms installing plants in a huge modular green wall at Ellesmere Port.

Modular green walls are vertical gardens made up of a multitude of small plants, which – like any living thing – need regular maintenance to keep them looking their best. Regular visits are required to feed, prune, replace plants and check irrigation and drainage systems.

  • Green wall maintenance

Green façade maintenance

Image shows the Prichard & Prichard green facade installation crew tying newly planted climbers to a stainless-steel bar-and-wire-rope trellis

A green façade comprises climbers and shrubs trained to climb a stainless steel bar-and-wire-rope trellis. The climbers need to be managed to ensure they don’t become tangled, interfere with gutters etc. or block light from windows.

  • Green wall maintenance

Refresh and restoration

Image shows: a bio-solar roofs overgrown with saplings and buddleia with image of the P&P green roof doctor’s bag over the top.

Properly installed, irrigated and maintained living roofs and walls should last for decades. If the plants on your green roof or in your green wall are struggling or if the weeds are taking over, you need to call P&P’s Green Doctor Service for a free diagnosis.

  • Act now to save your living wall or roof.
  • Free diagnosis
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Explainer / FAQ

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All your maintenance questions answered:

  • What is a no-maintenance green roof?
  • Do green roofs need irrigation?
  • How much maintenance does a green wall need?
  • Should our roof garden be regularly maintained?
  • Living roof FAQ
  • Living wall FAQ
  • Podium and roof garden FAQ

Living roof maintenance

Different living roof types have different maintenance requirements. P&P crafts bespoke maintenance and rejuvenation plans for intensive/sedum; extensive/mixed planting; wildflower; turf; brown/biodiverse; blue-green; and solar-green roofs.

A typical P&P living roof maintenance plan includes:

  • Removing weeds especially deep rooted plants that can damage the waterproofing and insulation.
  • Watering, where no irrigation system.
  • Pruning and deadheading plants.
  • Feeding plants.
  • Replacing any plants that are unhealthy or dead.
  • Keeping the border areas clear.
  • Checking/cleaning out drainage systems.
  • Checking the irrigation system.

Book a free maintenance consultation today.

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Image shows the podium garden at the central London Stella McCartney which is maintained by P&P. The garden contains birch trees, climbers and moss. A clip board shows a maintenance plan for a green roof.

Modular green wall maintenance

A modular wall should be considered as a vertical garden, it is made up of a multitude of small plants housed in modules or troughs. Like any garden it needs regular maintenance.

A typical P&P modular green wall maintenance plan includes:

  • Removing weeds.
  • Pruning plants.
  • Feeding plants.
  • Replacing any plants that are unhealthy/dead.
  • Keeping the border areas clear.
  • Checking the irrigation system for leaks and blockages.
  • Checking/cleaning out drainage systems.

Book a free maintenance consultation today.

Free consultation
Image of a modular green wall at LSE, London, maintained by Prichard & Prichard. A clip board shows a maintenance plan for a green wall.

Green façade maintenance

A green façade or climber living wall consists of climbers and shrubs trained to climb a stainless steel bar-and-wire-rope trellis. The plants are vigorous and their growth needs to be managed.

A typical P&P green façade maintenance plan includes:

  • Removing weeds.
  • Untangling, pruning and training plants.
  • Keeping plants away from gutters and drains.
  • Cleaning debris from gutters and drains.
  • Keeping plants away from windows and doors.
  • Checking the irrigation system, if installed, for leaks and blockages.

Book a free maintenance consultation today.

Free consultation
Image shows the green facade installed by Prichard & Prichard on a stainless-steel bar-and-wire-rope trellis on a residential building in Putney. A clip board shows a maintenance plan for a green façade.

Roof garden & podium maintenance

Maintenance plans for podiums and roof gardens differ greatly with their type, size and planting. Those with lawns require the most attention.

Tasks include:

  • Checking safety of paving for broken, uneven or slippery slabs
  • Clearing up any debris
  • Inspection and testing of irrigation and drainage systems
  • Removing unwanted foreign vegetation
  • Fertilizing and feeding
  • Pruning and cutting back plants
  • Repeat planting/seeding
  • Pest and fungal control

Book a free maintenance consultation today.

Free consultation
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Latest maintenance and renovation case studies

Roof restoration and maintenance, City of London

  • Living roof
  • Maintenance

Pritchard & Pritchard’s maintenance team were tasked with restoring four roofs where the weeds had taken over, to their former glory. Replanting completed 2019; maintenance…

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Wildflower meadow, London Victoria

  • Living roof
  • Maintenance

This gorgeous wildflower meadow terrace garden in London Victoria needs a twice yearly visit from P&P’s maintenance team to keep it looking its best.

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Green Roof renovation and biodiversity, Mayfair

  • Living roof
  • Maintenance

The Pritchard and Pritchard Green Roof maintenance team was asked to regenerate and bring greater diversity to extensive, sedum roof gardens in London’s Mayfair. We…

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