smoking/bus shelters

[goodlife]

Does anybody know how what kind of price we are talking about for one of these new/second hand?
I just had an idea.. ::) ;D..I would love to get hold of couple of these...not huge ones..and plant a another peach/nectarine in away from the weather. I can just see it in my mind,,,all see through design..curved top...solid cover on both long sides but open at the ends..and there might be just enough room for grow row tomatoes too along the other side of the shelter... ;D...now I just need the money.. ;D I wonder if anybody notice if I nick one from our local bus station.. :-X

[goodlife]

[goodlife]

Correction..does anybody know where to buy second hand ones.. ::)...I've just found some prices to new ones..OUCH...would be very pricey fruit indeed.. :(

[Digeroo]

You can get a Hornby one for under a tenner. ;D ;D  Might be a bit small.

Suggest you hove into Wyevale next January they had their polytunnels etc half price this year.  I looed longingly at a huge one for about £75.  Nowhere to put it.

I picked up a nice metre high tunnel for about £15.    Seems my tomato plants will be quite short this year. ;D

[goodlife]

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You can get a Hornby one for under a tenner...well If I could get XXXX small nectarine to go with it it would be excellent buy... ;D
Now I'm wondering getting  polytunnel instead..maybe having just the top half covered with plastic and bottom half with 'builders mesh'.. :-\..no doors, just open ends.. :-\  ??? Can I fasten some polycarbonate sheeting straight on to metal hoops with screws and wide washers? If there is not whole hoops..perharps making straight side with fence post and have curved edge on other..???
I've never done nothing like it but imagination is running wild.. ;D would it be possible? I'm quite handy with hammer  ;D...and I LOVE my power tools.. ;D
I know couple of chaps in lottie had their tunnels flattened by snow last winter..they've not been doing their plots since..and it is soon time for inspection....I wonder if I could talk them to sell their salvageable bits of frame for me...cheaply..and maybe I'll be able to build something up from those.. :-\
But it would be so nice not having always spending huge amount of time for 'knocking' things together from bits and pieces..to have something straight from back of the lorry..dropped on right place and off 'we' go...done!...ahh..I'll have to dream on I suppose.. ::)

[landimad]

Goodlife,
Why not try to build one with all the plumbers pipe and connectors available.
Should not be too hard to come up with an idea which allows you to shield the plants and walk through the shelter for a fraction of the cost to buy one outright.

[goodlife]

 ;D..because I've got bad habit that when ever I start something it have to built to last.. ::)
My thinking process always start from the most expensive and nice to look at and gradually coming down to reality.. ::) I just haven't got to the blumbers pipe stage yet... ::)..although I've got a stash of that already... ;D
Now, how would you go about it doing it from underground irrigation piping ?..coming with different thicknesses..from 3 inches across to aprox 6"..golf course where I work, they are doing new irrigation system..and they have skip full of off cuts..some are several meters long. But they are very stiff and thick walled.. :-\ Suppose I would still need wooden uprights.. :-\?
I've used normal blue pipe with simple cover things.. but I've never..yet..built anything more substancial with it yet. I've seen others poly tunnels made with it...but the idea in my head is open ended tunnel..can't do that with normal plastic cover..it would get ripped into pieces..and it need securing over to the door frames/ends .... :-\
Grey cells are in hard at work.... ::)

[pumkinlover]

If sturdy metal posts are put into the ground and the blue pipe slotted onto to it that makes a much firmer structure.
My OH used to work for water board and found the really wide bore cut off's very useful to rescue from a skip!

[Obelixx]

Try asking a double glazing firm if they have any old frames and panes to give away - saves them paying dumping fees when they take them out to install new ones.  Our horsey farm neighbours did this to make a permanent sheltered picnic area for when they have events such as pony games and such. 

[Amazingrotavator(Derby)]

Get your tools out!! I made this last year out of monoflex from scaffold direct £47:50 a roll. 2 packs of tilers lathes. Less than £100. It's 4mtrs x 3mtrs. Grew tomatoes,cucumbers and peppers in it last year. This year there are early spuds in which we are now harvesting.It took 3 days to make(made it up as I went.

[Vinlander]

solid cover on both long sides but open at the ends

Aren't these often called 'car ports'?

[ACE]

I don't think a bus shelter is the best choice, vandals love them. A smoking shelter will give you a good crop of losers in white trainers ;D

[flytrapman]

My friend got one of the covers they use to cover the areas where trolleys are parked on supermarkets for free when they where refurbishing a local supermarket

Check out salvage / breakers yards for damaged bus shelters

The blue tubing you can often get the offcuts for free in the area I live (Northwest) , if not try a plastic recycling company who will sell it at a fraction of the original cost.
Don't forget it comes in other colours Blue = water Yellow = gas Red = electric Green = cable TV/computer networks

[goodlife]

Bought this post up again...just to 'connect' with other post that is going same time.. ;)