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Chatting => Design and Construction => Topic started by: digital_biscuit on July 29, 2007, 19:43

Title: DIY Greenhouse
Post by: digital_biscuit on July 29, 2007, 19:43

Hi all

Has anyone ever built a DIY greenhouse at all? Thinking of it as they are so expensive!!

CHeers
Darren

Title: DIY Greenhouse
Post by: WG. on July 29, 2007, 19:44

Try freecycle.  :)

I'm sure someone else will answer your question directly.

Title: DIY Greenhouse
Post by: jack russell on July 29, 2007, 20:00

Hi

my lotty neighbour has built a timber frame on the original brick base where a green house used to be,  then covered with polly secured lats to corners and edges etc.  it looks ok and hopefully will work we are on an exposed site so hope the weather dont damage it


good luck its worth a try if it dont work the wood will come to good use on another project


cheers

jr

Title: DIY Greenhouse
Post by: digital_biscuit on July 29, 2007, 23:17

Quote from: "whisky_golf"

Try freecycle.  :)

I'm sure someone else will answer your question directly.

Cant ask on freecycle for help with things! I have ran into this problem before! You have to be saving something from landfill or else you get put on moderation, which i am currently on :(

Title: DIY Greenhouse
Post by: shaun on July 29, 2007, 23:21

noshed is our resident greenhouse expert  :wink:

Title: DIY Greenhouse
Post by: crowndale on July 30, 2007, 08:21

Quote from: "digital_biscuit"

Cant ask on freecycle for help with things! I have ran into this problem before! You have to be saving something from landfill or else you get put on moderation, which i am currently on :(

Thats a bit tight.  We are allowed to ask for one item a month.  At the end of the day if a person answers with an item then that is an item that is o longer in use by the giver so you are saving them storage space and it still isn't going in land fill.  I have given away a couple of things due to wanted ads that I had simply forgotten were there and the receivers were so grateful I'd do it again happily!

Title: DIY Greenhouse
Post by: noshed on August 05, 2007, 20:03

There's pictures of my edifice in the album. I spent about £70 on it in the end the rest was scrounged out of skips and off my friend Martin who is a carpenter.
My only advice would be to pick your site carefully - mine was relocated by a storm and is now wired to the fence.
Have a go with what you can get hold of. You can always alter it later, in the true allotment tradition.

Title: DIY Greenhouse
Post by: infowarrior on August 12, 2007, 20:01

Keep checking your local free paper in the grenhouse section, there's quite often in mine people willing to give greenhouses away if you can come to collect. That's how I got mine.

Title: DIY Greenhouse
Post by: splodger on August 12, 2007, 20:32

i am hopefully getting a greenhouse off of a friend at the end of the season -  :lol:

but i have also managed to pick up a frame - with no glass - i was thinking of using it as a frame to constuct a weatherproof shelter (in my garden) using taurp - and a bit of board as extra roof support - do you think that would work ok -

Title: DIY Greenhouse
Post by: gambatte on August 12, 2007, 20:42

http://www.maltbymail.org.uk/pdfs/maltby%20mail%20-%20issue%2011.pdf

Try page 14.

They're held together with canes thro and fixed to the frame

might be an inspiration to something similar for someone?

Oh yeah, hi everyone.

Makes a change, joining a forum to offer advice rather than to seek it.

Guess I'll be making a few of those posts soon tho'

Title: DIY Greenhouse
Post by: digital_biscuit on August 15, 2007, 15:15

Quote from: "noshed"

There's pictures of my edifice in the album.

I cant find any pics in your album?

Title: DIY Greenhouse
Post by: GrannieAnnie on August 15, 2007, 15:56

They are in THE album DB try this link, 2nd row down etc

http://www.chat.allotment-garden.org/album_cat.php?cat_id=1&sort_method=pic_time&sort_order=DESC&start=108