Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Chatting => Equipment Shed => Topic started by: carlrmj on May 11, 2012, 17:40
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Hi, a friend of mine has just bought a 8x6 Aluminium greenhouse frame only.
There is no glass with it (I'm not convinced it's a bargain)
Any idea how much it would cost to cover it with
1)Horticultural glass
2)Acrylic
3)polycarbonate
There's also the cost of clips etc
Thanks Carl
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I don't think it will be a bargain if glass-glazed, mainly because for fairly obvious reasons horticultural glass is not the sort of thing it's easy to buy at a big discount by mail-order. My 8X6 has somewhere around 65 2'X2' panes of glass, some of which were cut to shape first, and the current price per standard sheet seems to be around £4-£5 if you're lucky.
Your friend is much more likely to find a better deal on Acrylic or polycarbonate sheeting, although he/she will need to read up about securely fixing this type of material judging by some recent posts on these forums.
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My friend has just ordered polycarbonate sheeting for her 8x6 greenhouse from b&q for
89.99.
I was expecting it to be a lot more