Topic: new green house

[littlebabybird]

its my birthday soon and hubbys gonna get me a green house,  ;D   so can anyone recomend a wonderful awesome 4x6 (all i'm allowed on the plot) greenhopuse for me?
thank you lbb

[MrsKP]

how windy is your site ?

 :o :P

[littlebabybird]

:) just asked the bloke next to us, he says its not so windy, any help?

[star]

You got the internet at your plot LBB? None of my business I know, but I'm very nosey ;D

[Gazfoz]

It matters not what weather you get on your allotment. These days a non windy site can become very windy due to climate change / global warming.
In my opinion you should get the greenhouse you want, put it where you want and make sure that you fix it firmly to the ground.
Paving slabs , concrete lintels or a full concrete base are all popular options but whichever you choose make sure you fasten the greenhouse down to something solid.
You may still lose the odd pane of glass but hopefully you won't need to knock on your neighbours door asking for your greenhouse back.

Gary.

[MrsKP]

In my experience Norfolk greenhouses don't stand up well to wind.

[littlebabybird]

In my experience Norfolk greenhouses don't stand up well to wind.

be they a company, or be they greenhouses in norfolk, from what i remember of norfolk wind it goes through not round sooo a greenhouse would be broken :)

You got the internet at your plot LBB? None of my business I know, but I'm very nosey ;D

oldest child has a fangled puter laptop thingy that can work from the lotty, its a pain sometimes but not as much of a pain as everyones mobiles



ok who makes the prettyest still functional greenhouses?

[MrsKP]

In my experience Norfolk greenhouses don't stand up well to wind.

be they a company, or be they greenhouses in norfolk, from what i remember of norfolk wind it goes through not round sooo a greenhouse would be broken :)

they be the manufacturer.  nice company, shame about the robustness (or lack of) (but they do make the size you were looking for)

and the glasgow wind certainly went through mine but the roof stayed on fine ! ::)

My t'other g/h is toughened glass but even that took a direct hit this winter - still waiting to be repaired.  If I was buying from new again, I'm not sure what I'd go for .... now that's helpful isn't it ... not !

 :P

[Hyacinth]

a good-looking 6x4?..well, beauty's in the eye of the beholder, innit, and the day I became a Woman of Property and owner of my very own FREEBIE 6x4 was a beautiful day indeed 8)

You'll have to shop around for the best deal. Agree that it's got to be bolted to a concrete frame, and also that I think it needs to be toughened glass rather than polycarbonate. You'll need automatic venting & kaypers will still remember, I'm sure, the trouble she had fitting the venting thingies after she'd bought her 'house. OK, she might have forgotten but I can remember learning a whole host of new words as she gave me her lack-of-progress reports :-[ ;) So venting as part of the package if poss.

Just got out the instructions that came with my 'house...it's made by Simplicity Greenhouses Ltd.....website www.simplicitygreenhouses.co.uk. One year in gales a pane blew out & I contacted them for spare clips..v. efficient they were....

Lishka

[lorna]

Yes Lish I remember the comments from KP over the automatic venting, even I blushed ;D

[Hyacinth]

...even her tame blackbirds turned red, Lorna ;D

Mine didn't come with automatic venting, but there again it's in my garden not on a lottie, so I automatically open the vent & door in the morning & automatically close them later.

I lead a simple lo-tech life, me....

[MrsKP]

yes i do remember ........... standard autovent, standard greenhouse - you'd have thought the two manufacturers could get together and make a standard set of holes !  thus we ended up with a autovent frame that resembles a tea bag !  strangely enough, the autovents stayed in place !  strange that.

 ;D