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Chatting => Design and Construction => Topic started by: hubballi on January 02, 2011, 14:00

Title: Lean To Greenhouse
Post by: hubballi on January 02, 2011, 14:00: I am looking at getting a lean to greenhouse to get my early veg sowed. So far this is the best price as it includes a free base and postage.

http://www.webretailuk.co.uk/STOCK_P...rce=googlebase

This is the type I want as the plastic ones never last and my cat goes through them as he claws his way up to sit on the warm roof. VAT will go up soon so I need to get one ASAP. Also, if I can get cashback it will be a bonus but this website doesn't come up on any cashback sites.

Thanks.
Title: Re: Lean To Greenhouse
Post by: DD. on January 02, 2011, 15:33: You've posted a broken link there.
Title: Re: Lean To Greenhouse
Post by: hubballi on January 02, 2011, 17:35: Sorry

http://www.webretailuk.co.uk/STOCK_Products/Gardman_4x6_Leanto_Greenhouse_STOCK.htm?source=googlebase
Title: Re: Lean To Greenhouse
Post by: 1st time veg grower on January 02, 2011, 18:52: I have the 6x8 version and having spent most of the afternoon in there can say that I love it! However it took a lot longer to put together than I thought it would (but having said that we did do it when it was freezing - think some of it was that our fingers were so cold we couldn't get them to work properly!). It also arrived with one of the sheets of polycarb missing and there were bits we couldn't get to fit properly - the door handle being the most annoying bit. My mum also damaged her hand badly cutting a piece of the plastic that holds the polycarb in place to size.

But, like I said, now my potting table is in place and I've dug out some borders and its already nice and warm in there...all that is almost forgotten! :D Mine is positioned over a window, the theory being that the heat escaping through it helps keep it warm.
Title: Re: Lean To Greenhouse
Post by: mumofstig on January 02, 2011, 19:38: mine is not lean to, and it's 6' x 8' and it's 3 years old now. and works well.
If you live somewhere windy you might find it better to fix the polycarb in with sealant. My panes popped a few times when it was very windy, but the sealant has stopped it happening again :)
Title: Re: Lean To Greenhouse
Post by: hubballi on January 02, 2011, 21:44: Great. What do you think of the price them. Should I go for it ?

Another thing. Which is the most efficient and cheapest way to heat the inside during the next 3 months ?

There is also this one which is much cheaper.

http://www.norfolk-greenhouses.co.uk/shop/shop-infopage.php?longref=73~0
Title: Re: Lean To Greenhouse
Post by: hubballi on January 04, 2011, 18:01: Anyone else please ?
Title: Re: Lean To Greenhouse
Post by: savbo on January 05, 2011, 07:54: having not paid much for my 3 greenhouses I can't answer the value question but in Equipment Shed there are several recent threads about most cost-effective heating...

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Title: Re: Lean To Greenhouse
Post by: 1st time veg grower on January 05, 2011, 11:58: My 6x8ft one was £521 and I was told by others that seemed a good price so half the size I would expect half the price, so personally I think those prices are quite good, but I'm absolutely no expert. I'm not planning on heating mine other than how I stated earlier so can't really help there either, sorry.
Title: Re: Lean To Greenhouse
Post by: Rangerkris on January 08, 2011, 19:11: You could get a full one for that price and sell the other half, i would think :dry:
Title: Re: Lean To Greenhouse
Post by: hubballi on January 11, 2011, 16:47: What about this ?

http://www.greenhousepeople.co.uk/greenhouses/lean-to-greenhouses/southwold_mill_46/#1
Title: Re: Lean To Greenhouse
Post by: Paul Plots on January 11, 2011, 17:01: Lean-to greenhouses are great for coping with high winds. I've had my 10'x4' for about 10 years where previously I lost two free standing ones in three years!

Best of luck with your search for the right model.
Title: Re: Lean To Greenhouse
Post by: hubballi on January 12, 2011, 13:24: Was your 10 x 4 a glass or polycarbonate ?
Title: Re: Lean To Greenhouse
Post by: tosca100 on January 12, 2011, 14:44: I've got a 4x6 polycarbonate one in the windtunnel that is my drive, got it three years ago. I have only lost the panels once (one broke but it was cheap to get another) and since then have put a whole extra packet of clips around and have had no problems. I don't heat it at all, I have a heated propogator in the garage to start stuff off. I have a couple of hanging shelves and an old mini greenhouse frame in there in spring for seedlings and growers. Put the toms and peppers in when they move out. Works really well.
Title: Re: Lean To Greenhouse
Post by: Paul Plots on January 13, 2011, 10:35: Quote from: hubballi on January 12, 2011, 13:24
Was your 10 x 4 a glass or polycarbonate ?

Glass - and as we had small children at the time I asked for toughened glass. Although the area was fenced off you can never be too safe with glass and children!
Title: Re: Lean To Greenhouse
Post by: hubballi on January 13, 2011, 12:07: I am torn between the two. The aluminium glass or poly lean to.
Title: Re: Lean To Greenhouse
Post by: Paul Plots on January 13, 2011, 15:47: Quote from: hubballi on January 13, 2011, 12:07
I am torn between the two. The aluminium glass or poly lean to.

I've had my glass lean-to greenhouse for a very long time - no problems with it and I am sure it has out-lasted a poly version and (fingers crossed) will continue to do so for years to come.

Other free-standing greenhouses simply couldn't take the force of the exceptional blasts of wind. The lean-to is a much stronger construction (on the side of a long garage wall) and in the lee of the worst winds that we get once every few years.