City Incentive

The City of Toronto Eco-Roof Incentive Program

You might recall from an earlier session that we had applied for a grant under the City of .  

Toronto Eco-Roof Incentive Program

In summary, the City will give you a grant of $75 per square metre to install a living / green roof on your own home.  

• You will need to make an application in advance to join the program (quick).  
• You will need to get a City Building Permit (possibly slow and time consuming).  
• Do the installation ( you control this part)
• Have it inspected twice - once for the Building Inspector for their sign-off of the Building Permit and again by the staff of the Eco-Roof Incentive Program. ( a couple weeks)

We had a very pleasant visit with them about a week after the installation was the finished.  The sedums had been watered, and rained on, and had recovered nicely from the ordeals of travel. 

There was lots of discussion as we were the only full blown full coverage residential building "in play" at the time.  They even brought out the Summer Intern as part of their on-the-job training program.  There was a form to be filed out, photographs taken "for the record"  and measurements confirmed, to be signed-off by the City  staff.

Six weeks later the cheque arrived in the mail.

I commend this Eco-Roof Incentive Program to everyone in Toronto.  It works simply and well. In our installation the City "incentive"  covered about 1/3 of our material and permitting costs.  

All things considered, our roof costed about $200 per square meter for all the things I had to spend money on.Material, delivery, hoisting, permits and approvals, 3rd party technical support.

To which you add "labour".  Realistically, commercial labour could double your cost for a simple installation, or trble it for a fussy installation.