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« on: July 28, 2006, 18:15 »
can anyone please tell me where i can get the blue piping , that people are using on the polytunnels they make ? ...ive seen a few allottments with them ,but the owners are not there when i go to mine
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« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2006, 22:16 »
try travis perkins or dewson or any large builders/plumbers merchants
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« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2006, 22:21 »
It's actually mains water piping - Wickes sell it as well. You need a trade place for the best price.
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« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2006, 08:31 »
:D thanks ....i never thought of wickes or dewsons.....must take a trip to them

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« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2006, 13:47 »
Not forgetting to look in any skips on the way!!!!!

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« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2006, 14:02 »
I've read somewhere about using cheap hosepipe, then running canes along the top for strength. I might have a go at this, I saw something similar at Audley End - they linked the bottoms of each hoop with wire as well.
Might be another excuse to look in the poundshops.
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« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2006, 08:53 »
Blue for water, yellow for gas; you need to find someone who works for either Scottish Gas or Scottish Water and get their off-cuts. Or buy it.

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« Reply #7 on: July 31, 2006, 09:39 »
I would go for the rigid blue pipe in preference to cheap hosepipe option that noshed is proposing.  I got my blue piping a number of years ago now - I think it cost me in the region of £20 for 25m worth and its as good now as the day I bought it.  If you have beds that are 4ft wide cut the pipe into 1.8m lengths, source your covering material in 2m widths and you will have enough to anchor down each side.  I use old bamboo canes to anchor the piping into the ground.  

I originally got the idea for the rigid hoops from a very useful Geoff Hamilton book - gardener's world practical gardening course.  It was funny how once I'd introduced the blue piping cloches onto my plots, blue piping started springing up on several other plots on the allotment site too!!!
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« Reply #8 on: August 05, 2006, 20:38 »
I got a tidy bit out of a council skip, bit naughty but I asked the guys working and they said it was going to the dump so take it. I always keep my eyes peeled now. (Ouch just imagined peeled eyes, eeewww)

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« Reply #9 on: September 13, 2006, 14:29 »
I've ended up buying some from Jewsons £16 for 25m of 25mm (quite fat - I thought it would be better).
I'm fed up bodging cloches, they take up too much time to fiddle about with.

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« Reply #10 on: September 13, 2006, 17:42 »
ohh its jewson not dewson must be the way i say it
noshed if you get some scaffold tubes about 2 feet in length,knock them in the ground about a foot at equal spaces and push your blue pipe in the tube bend it over to push it in another tube opposite.
its then realy easy to undo for weeding etc.

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« Reply #11 on: September 13, 2006, 21:51 »
Oh Shaun, scaffold tubes, what a good idea, would be much better your way than pushing the piping over canes in the ground like I did, they keep moving about and don't look very nice once you've moved them a few times to get at the cabbages!!!

Must try your idea next year!  Thanks

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« Reply #12 on: September 13, 2006, 23:12 »
Thanks for the scaffold tube tip - more lurking around skips!



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