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Produce => Under Glass => Topic started by: quizzical1 on February 28, 2007, 20:02:48
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Having removed a secondary double glazed window to replace it with a permanent one, I find myself with a large aluminium frame with a hardwood surround, dimensions approx, 6'x4'. With this comes 3 panes of glass, each also with a metal frame, which fit in and slide back and forth.
Do you think this would make a workable top for a cold frame, or is it too big?
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sounds good to me ;D
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Sounds like it was made for the job.... "Perfick" ;)
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Good, just got to go and get some B&Q gravel boards* and some 2"x2" to make the body of it, or at least the panels, or I'll never get it in the car to take it up the plot.
*B&Q gravel boards are thicker than those from Wickes, and they are the nearest to me, apart from Jewson, and they're too expensive.
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It sounds ideal as you won't have to lift it up to get inside.
I think cold frames are really useful and yours will be big enough to get loads of seedlings inside.
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I made mine out of;
Left over breeze blocks from the house extension (20 years ago)
Old green house glazing bars from a greenhouse that accidently burned down and the glass is ex-secondary glazing from when we changed to double glazing.
Even the sand & cement was left over from the extension.
This is it as it is today;
(http://www.thegardenersalmanac.co.uk/Data/Coldframe/Coldframe.jpg)
This is it in Spring;
(http://www.thegardenersalmanac.co.uk/Data/Coldframe/Coldframe%202.JPG)
This it in summer
(http://www.thegardenersalmanac.co.uk/Data/Coldframe/Coldframe%203.jpg)
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Wow! one can only dream of having one that big!! ;)