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Growing => Growing in Greenhouses & Polytunnels => Topic started by: compostqueen on April 03, 2017, 18:33

Title: Surprise surprise!
Post by: compostqueen on April 03, 2017, 18:33
My husband went to collect a second hand free dishwasher for our son today and was offered this for a small fee

He has bagged it for me 😀


https://goo.gl/images/kDUCRu
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Post by: Lardman on April 03, 2017, 18:46
Nice  :D

Looks a posh one too - did he come home with it or have you got to go and help dismantle it?
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Post by: jaydig on April 03, 2017, 18:59
Wow!! It must have been your lucky day - it looks like a lovely one.  I hope you enjoy it.
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Post by: mrs bouquet on April 03, 2017, 19:15
What a result and a dishwasher as well.  Bonus !!!  Mrs Bouquet
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Post by: snowdrops on April 03, 2017, 19:34
How lovely, will you have it at home or at the allotment?
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Post by: Growster... on April 03, 2017, 20:21
Fabulous!

And what perfect timing too!
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Post by: compostqueen on April 03, 2017, 21:08
I know!  Just bought some growbags and the seedlings are springing up all over the conservatory! 

I asked him where we'll be putting and he said he'd not even thought about it. He just wanted to get it for me, and thought we could worry about siting it later.  The best site for it is at home where I just planted a load of shallots. Doh!

It needs dismantling, so I hope my son will go with him (or instead of me) to help as he has a brilliant memory, and if he takes it down he will remember how it goes back up.  We might have to force him at the point of a pointy thing though  :D A roast dinner should swing it  ::) 
 
I've been quite careful with numbers of seeds being sown this year as usually I can't get in and out of my greenhouses easily as they are so full. I have to breathe in, sidle in and reverse out  :D 

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Post by: mrs bouquet on April 04, 2017, 11:07
Well, its obviously going to be a welcome addition for all your seedling etc,  I'm sure Son will oblige after he has bagged the dishwasher  :) Good luck with it all,  Mrs Bouquet
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Post by: sunshineband on April 04, 2017, 13:43
What a really lovely surprise CQ 😁😁😁

and very thoughtful of your OH too
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Post by: Growster... on April 06, 2017, 18:57
CQ, please be careful with the glass...

Make sure it's standing on edge in the car/van, and not flat. Lean it up against something sturdy and tie it back and down so it won't crash to the deck! And wear gloves - it's the heaviest part of any greenhouse!

(Exit Growster, showing happy concern for CQ as he would for all good folk here)...
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Post by: compostqueen on April 13, 2017, 21:49
Thanks Growster!  Greenhouse glass is dangerous!  Even handling it can slice your finger off as it's so sharp on the edges.  Good news is that it has safety glass.

We have arranged to go and  distmantle it. We still haven't discussed where it's going  :D
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Post by: Fairy Plotmother on April 13, 2017, 22:23
It helped us to take lots of pictures of the greenhouse before we dismantled it. .....mostly all the joining bits. It proved very useful!
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Post by: compostqueen on May 01, 2017, 15:00
Update.  We went into deepest Derbyshire countryside today for the greenhouse.  We dismantled it quite easily as it is fairly new! 😃  It is toughened glass! I thought it was polycarbonate.  It has a full length staging, low level slatted louvre blind in one end and auto openers on the roof lights. It has guttering and a Down pipe too. Tres posh 🙂

We have to now borrow a van to go back and fetch it, possibly this Friday. Then prep a base and put it back up.  I am ok til OH loses interest as he is the king of unfinished projects

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Post by: New shoot on May 01, 2017, 15:36
It sounds like the bargain of all time CQ  :D
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Post by: sunshineband on May 01, 2017, 17:29
Sounds well worth the van hire... your OH has come up trumps with this one!
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Post by: Growster... on May 01, 2017, 17:32
That is one huge 'Billy Bargain', CQ!

You'll have a real goodun from now on, and don't you deserve it!

Start planning for loads of toms and cuces...

;0)
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Post by: snowdrops on May 01, 2017, 17:33
Update.  We went into deepest Derbyshire countryside today for the greenhouse.  We dismantled it quite easily as it is fairly new! 😃  It is toughened glass! I thought it was polycarbonate.  It has a full length staging, low level slatted louvre blind in one end and auto openers on the roof lights. It has guttering and a Down pipe too. Tres posh 🙂

We have to now borrow a van to go back and fetch it, possibly this Friday. Then prep a base and put it back up.  I am ok til OH loses interest as he is the king of unfinished projects

Sounds like it might be a rhino greenhouse, same as mine, they come as standard with toughened glass, has it got lots of opening lights in the roof
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Post by: compostqueen on May 02, 2017, 12:32
We can borrow a van  :D
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Post by: compostqueen on May 15, 2017, 09:32
It's a Hartley Botanic Traditional in green. The company has sent me a foundation base plan so we kicked off yesterday with the dig out, down our garden, in the veg patch, adjacent to my three other greenhouses - all of which are ancient  :D

We have to lay concrete footings and then a brick base for the frame to sit on.  What could go wrong?  :lol:
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Post by: snowdrops on May 15, 2017, 13:52
Thanks CQ, I scrolled back to your link & realised I'd missed what make it is
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Post by: compostqueen on May 23, 2017, 00:10
Progress 🙂 The foundation was done today 😃
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Post by: compostqueen on June 11, 2017, 19:37
We have managed to lose a piece!  We have had to order a new one and have to wait for it to be powder coated.  Sigh 🙄🙄🙄

The base is down. We made comcrete footings as per but instead of brick we used paving blocks which we have had stashed here for years waiting for such a job. They look grand.

We are hoping to do a bit more tomorrow, as much as we can without the missing piece.  It's a bit difficult though as it is a support for two  rear elevation windows. Doh
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Post by: compostqueen on June 28, 2017, 12:02
Ta da!

Got it sorted at last!  Not placed the plants yet as it got too late then I got rained off.

The compost either side the path was made by my own fair hand. Sieved and spread out once i had dug out the flaming tree roots!  I had to saw, chop, hack the darned things before I could get the soil chopped up, raked and the compost spread out. I was really knackered as it was really hot!  Sheesh  I mentioned the roots to my husband who had laid the foundations and the path. Strange he didn't encounter any. Hmmmmm  >:(

Anyway it's up now, plants are in and I can faff about on the finesse jobs now  :D

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Post by: arh on June 28, 2017, 15:59
And a very nice greenhouse it is too, congrats. arh.
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Post by: snowdrops on June 28, 2017, 18:18
Looks lovely CQ, lovely big panes of glass
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Post by: compostqueen on June 28, 2017, 23:11
I know! Toughened as well. Shiny too 😃