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Chatting => Equipment Shed => Topic started by: noshed on April 24, 2006, 20:46

Title: corrugated plastic
Post by: noshed on April 24, 2006, 20:46

My friend has just given me 14 sheets of clear corrugated palstic he got from ajob he was doing. It looks in quite good nick. I was thinking cloches - any other ideas?

Title: corrugated plastic
Post by: Jake on April 24, 2006, 21:02

Want to sell any? Man I bought 2 sheets from B&Q (well a shelter was really important) and they cost me the best part of £20.

You could make coldframe type things which also collect water for you into a can or something. The roof of the shelter I built is going to be a coldframe top when we get a proper shed.

Title: corrugated plastic
Post by: lentil987 on April 24, 2006, 21:20

I have two sheets of that clear stuff from B & Q and it cost me £5.00 a sheet. I use them as cloches by bending them over and putting wire around them. The only trouble I have is that in strong winds they blow away. My OH plans to drill some holes in the ends and put stakes in them so that I can bend them over and fix them into the ground - however he hasnt done it yet so cant tell you if it will work.

Title: corrugated plastic
Post by: noshed on April 25, 2006, 10:23

Thanks - I was trying to think of incorporating some water-collecting aspect to any structure I build. I'll put up pics of any progress I make.
At the moment I seem to be building more than I'm planting. Still it gives vent to all my rough carpentry skills (?)

Title: corrugated plastic
Post by: Gwiz on May 02, 2006, 13:37

cloches, definitly. like jake i was knocked sideways by the price of the stuff. :wink:

Title: corrugated plastic
Post by: ang on May 03, 2006, 16:34

Cloche lids, wooden sides to cloches. Could you do a mini greenhouse type thing?

Title: corrugated plastic
Post by: noshed on May 03, 2006, 18:24

yes I was thinking of that. I'll have to get a bit more scrap wood off the same friend (always get to know a carpenter).