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Produce => Under Glass => Topic started by: TEL on March 15, 2006, 19:06:03
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I have just got a new greenhouse & looked at the instructions . :'(
By this time next year i may just get it together. ::)
Any tips on puttting it up much appreciated. :-[
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get somone else to do it!!! ;)
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Please don't remind me of the pain of putting a greenhouse up. It took me over 3 months and cost £120.
Oh and by the way it would be a good idea to slide extra bolts in the slots. You would then have somewhere to fasten your bubble wrap, and string etc. to. I wish somebody had told me that when mine was going up.
Rosemary
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Rose.mary
Thats a good tip TA 8)
littlegem
Thats a nice offer when can you start ;D
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Put up my Greenhouse --8x6 ft, in 6hrs on my own, with No problems at all, if I can do this, anybody can.
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tel, i think pntalbot has just offered!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D
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blimey pntalbot - on your own???
it took 4 of us about 8 hours to build our poly carbon 8x6 greenhouse!! (well 3 really - I had a stinking hang over, so was the tea girl :))
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You're scaring me. :D We bought one of the 6 x 4 Focus ones last week (all we have room for on the patio area at the moment, because it's only 5'6" wide), but still haven't started building it, because of the snow. Was planning on doing it this week coming. Better set aside a whole day then for me and OH, eh? :o ;D
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well started to build mine yesterday "Saturday" at 4am & got the frame up by 12.30 pm :'( but that was the base to. will go back to plot soon & if it is still standing i will finish it of ;D
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Oh and by the way it would be a good idea to slide extra bolts in the slots. You would then have somewhere to fasten your bubble wrap, and string etc. to. I wish somebody had told me that when mine was going up.
Rosemary
This is an excellent tip especially if later you intend putting shelving up, I had great fun dismantling the GH just to slide some extra bolts up the slots.
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Took me 2 full days to erect 8x6 aluminium frame with safety glass. Day 1 on my own putting the frame together. Day 2 was spent fitting glazing strips and glazing it .
Tips:
Build the ends and sides all seperate and then put them together (don't tighten the bolts fully until it is in place and you can check for squareness) Once this is done the frame can easily be lifted by one person to the final site.
Get some help when glazing as climbing up step ladders with glass not only gets tiring but there is your safety to consider.
Wear gloves.
Good luck, the rewards will be worth it
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Went down the plot sunday & glazed the greenhouse it took about 5 hours. ??? All done now so roll on summer ;D
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There is no way that I can lift the safety glass by myself, up a ladder, soft ground. I did put a lot of the side panels in but I had sore thumbs for days after.
The greenhouse is 10' x 8' and believe me I would not put another up, although it is worth it now.
Rosemary
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The tips from Rose.mary and MikeB about extra bolts are well worth heeding, although you can buy what they call cropped head bolts for retro-fitting - at a price. You can even make your own from standard bolts if you're handy with a file or a grinder, below.
The biggest laugh I had was when I found they'd delivered it to the house while I was out, not to the allotment half a mile away. ;D
(http://static.flickr.com/37/115466992_3eaf4154ac_o.jpg)
Geoff.
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Snipe nose pliers help to put the clips in ..Save You getting sore fingers...
Tel, 4am! did you use a cap lamp ;D cheers ..Jim
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Snipe nose pliers help to put the clips in ..Save You getting sore fingers...
Tel, 4am! did you use a cap lamp ;D cheers ..Jim
Jim
I took over the dining room before the wife got up to build the ends then put them on top of the van & moved to the plot. ;)
But i wish i was able to build it all at home as it took me the rest of the day to warm up again :'(
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you're scaring me now tim ;D
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Come on tel, take a picture! ::) ;D
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Thats it something so small took so much time.
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can i ask what u stood it on ? ???please ;)
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can i ask what u stood it on ? ???please ;)
Hi i placed it on a treated 4"by2" 100mm by 50mm timber frame witch was then fixed to the ground with a peg or two.
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Lovely tel, you must be proud! What you gonna grow in it this year?
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Hi SS
I'm going to grow toms peppers cucumbers.
But the best thing is i can start all the plants in there & plant out. ;D
Proud no just relived its up 8)
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Tel. That looks great. Best of luck with all you grow in it this year.
Lorna
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Tel. That looks great. Best of luck with all you grow in it this year.
Lorna
Thanks Lorna ;D
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Mine arrived this morning Tel.
That's the staging done (two screw holes wouldn't align and out of 32 i didn't think that was too bad, and it's secure enough), so this afternoon will be spent, feet up, trying to translate double dutch.
oh and we had hail this morning and now bright sunshine.
wish me luck. i want to see if i can get the whole thing done before the OH arrives home ;D
Edited to read: Having now found the instructions I might "get the whole thing done before the end of the growing season" !!!!! :o
I'm retiring to bed (I'm not well today), and have a good read before I do anything else.
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Mine arrived this morning Tel.
Edited to read: Having now found the instructions I might "get the whole thing done before the end of the growing season" !!!!! :o
I'm a builder by trade & male so the instructions & me don't go together ;D But i know what you are going throe trying to discover what you do. ???
Just watch out for the door bars they were a bugger for me :'(
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I'm busy counting bits atm and seem to have "lost" a couple already.
It's gonna be a long week ;D
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We've finally started building my 6 x 4' Focus £99 aluminium greenhouse this morning. Spent a couple of hours on it so far, and have built the gable ends and the sides, so not much more to do for the construction. Bolts are a bit friable though - OH has sheared 3 so far by giving it just that little bit too much effort tightening them - doesn't know his own strength. :D
Tomorrow - we finish building and start the glazing. Why do I have an awful feeling the fun's just beginning? ::)
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If you all built greenhouses out of old window frames you wouldn't have all this bother ;D
Mind you .. the front of mine fell off the other week ... :-X ;D
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When I think of the old window frames we disposed of a couple of years ago when we put double glazing into the last house, I could spit!
I do have some double glazing units sitting around the side of the house that are going to become lids for cold frames though. That should keep the little plants snug. :D
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i'm about to have to do something with the living room window (about 3.5' x 3') where the sealed unit isn't sealed any more. i'm thinking of putting in french windows for even easier access to the plot :P
i'm planning now what i can do with the panes although i really am running out of room in the garden but the scavenger in my refuses to throw them away. good job i've got plenty of room for storage behind the shed.
;D