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Chatting => Design and Construction => Topic started by: elrosco on August 14, 2011, 15:42

Title: No base for my greenhouse
Post by: elrosco on August 14, 2011, 15:42

Hi all I have been lucky enough to get a 10x8 greehouse for free.  :D

I have a slabbed area to site the greenhouse on but do not have the galvanised or plastic base to sit it on.

As it raises the greenhouse it would give me more headroom and 'seal' the greenhouse.

Does anyone have any suggestions either for :

1. where I can buy one?

2. how I can make one?

Thank you

Title: Re: No base for my greenhouse
Post by: Rangerkris on August 14, 2011, 15:57

You could sit the greenhouse on a wooden frame of 3x2 or something bigger if you can get something. Railway sleepers would give you more height layed on there side.

Title: Re: No base for my greenhouse
Post by: mumofstig on August 14, 2011, 16:24

or lay a course of concrete blocks and fix into that :)

Title: Re: No base for my greenhouse
Post by: sunshineband on August 14, 2011, 17:13

Ours is on bricks.

You can add several layers to rasie up the whole greenhouse like this, too, which is really helpful  :D

Title: Re: No base for my greenhouse
Post by: Gwiz on August 14, 2011, 17:38

I'd go for the bricks or blocks.
Having said that, I used wooden sleepers (I had some laying around) but I can see a time at some point in the future when I'll have to replace them, Which won't be a pain in the neck on my tiny little greenhouse, but on a 10 x 8 would be a real headache!

Title: Re: No base for my greenhouse
Post by: elrosco on August 14, 2011, 22:12

Thank you all for your replies.

I think I'll see if I can salvage some bricks.

Don't mean to sound daft - but I take it I then need fix the greenhouse to these using a masonary drill and some kind of plugs - coach bolts or similar?

Again does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to fix the greenhouse to them?

Thanks again

Title: Re: No base for my greenhouse
Post by: JayG on August 14, 2011, 22:56

I used frame-fixing screws (a seriously large screw in a seriously large plastic plug; you drill through frame and brick, tap the plug and screw into the hole and then tighten.)

Some others on here seem to have used either bought or home-made straps or brackets, but I found the above pretty easy (as long as you don't try to do it after you've glazed it!)  ::)

Title: Re: No base for my greenhouse
Post by: elrosco on August 15, 2011, 19:40

Thanks JayG sounds like a plan.

I know what I need to do now, just need the weather and the time.

Thanks

Title: Re: No base for my greenhouse
Post by: JayG on August 15, 2011, 20:13

Quote from: elrosco on August 15, 2011, 19:40

Thanks JayG sounds like a plan.

I know what I need to do now, just need the weather and the time.

Thanks

If you can get hold of some "Waxoyl" you might consider coating the screws in it before you drive them in (it kept my now (sadly) departed MGB in more or less one piece for a lot longer than it would have survived without it, and it also acts as a lubricant to make your particular fixing job a little bit easier!)