I have access to a small finished rooftop and i want to see if you can think of any use for it. It’s hard to get to because you have to go out a window then up a fire escape. And there’s a couple of nice places to sit right outside my building, so i never wind up going to the roof.

I considered growing vegetables up there but it’s hard enough to access that that probably wouldn’t be enough to draw me up there and they’d probably just die of neglect.

It’s about 8 x 10 feet, and a pain to get to.

Can you think of anything worth doing with it?

EDIT:

I can’t permanently change anything to it, like installing a major solar construction.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    12 days ago

    • Mount a rooftop antenna if you’re into various forms of radio — CB, ham, shortwave, running a radio scanner, terrestrial broadcast digital TV, etc. Height is helpful there.

    • You can probably get some kind of automated watering system, if that’s your concern with the vegetables. Maybe need to fill a tank occasionally, but outside of that…shrugs.

    • Some people like rooftop beekeeping. Don’t need frequent access for that.

    • Can throw some solar panels up there as a source of emergency power if the power goes out; if you put them above head height, then you’ve also got shade.

    • I’m guessing that this is an urban environment (“access to” sounds like a multiunit building) so it probably has light pollution in the area, but if not, could maybe throw a telescope up there for unobstructed access to the sky. I’ve occasionally wondered about how hard it’d be to get some kinda motorized pan-tilt-zoom telescope-attached camera just to pan around and look at stuff on the ground on a monitor, and if you’re looking at the city, it might be fun, kinda like adding an expansive view downstairs. I have some relatives that have housing with a nice view, and they liked to have tripod-mounted telescopes to look out and check out everything. In your case, probably want something remotely-operated, but same idea.