Rain

noshed · « **on:** October 25, 2006, 12:15 »

I'm getting fed up with this now. How is a person supposed supposed to finish their greenhouse?

milkman · « **Reply #1 on:** October 25, 2006, 12:25 »

Oh noshed stop coming up with flimsy excuses and just get on with it :roll: borrow a waterproof rain-mac and wellies if you don't have already have them, forget you are a fair-weather gardener and get out there - just imagine how good you will feel when you are pootling about inside your weatherproof greenhouse with the rain lashing all about you on the outside!

muntjac · « **Reply #2 on:** October 25, 2006, 12:28 »

it wont be raining on ya when ya got the roof on?

milkman · « **Reply #3 on:** October 25, 2006, 12:28 »

milkman · « **Reply #4 on:** October 25, 2006, 12:33 »

ps. the longer you keep putting it off the greater the risk that the carefully constructed wooden frame will warp (which won't please "friend Martin" after all his efforts on your behalf), then your panes won't fit and you will just be left with something resembling a Noshed's Folly! :shock:

noshed · « **Reply #5 on:** October 25, 2006, 14:44 »

Yes there's always looking on the bright side

GrannieAnnie · « **Reply #6 on:** October 25, 2006, 15:18 »

I was like you noshed with the polytunnel, although it didn't take as long to put up as a greenhouse, but now me and my faithful hound can go down there when its raining and tottle about inside, digging and picking tomatoes and chillies and listening to the rain on the polythene

Oliveview · « **Reply #7 on:** October 26, 2006, 09:02 »

neighbour said 9litres of rain fell (per cubic mtr?) in the cloud burst here on Monday... town 12km away had floods.... I know we were driving through it at the time! The rain lasted about 10 min if that, boy was it scary :shock:

noshed · « **Reply #8 on:** October 26, 2006, 10:56 »

It seems to be clearing up - but I'm at work. Roll on the weekend.

WeedDetester · « **Reply #9 on:** October 26, 2006, 23:21 »

Rain, hailstones and gale force winds up here in Carlisle. So glad I tethered down the greenhouse with railway sleepers weighing about a ton each. Can't help thinking though that i'll arrive tomorrow to find all the glass gone and justa fram e left. :?

John · « **Reply #10 on:** October 27, 2006, 00:22 »

The dangerous bit is when you have half glazed - the wind gets in and liftoff. The ideal is to glaze in one go. If you've screwed the frame down prior to glazing, unscrew, glaze and screw back. The reason is the weight of the glass causes things to shift. At least with aluminium frames,

noshed · « **Reply #11 on:** October 27, 2006, 21:13 »

Off we go tomorrow. Fortunately I've plenty of bricks for lowering the centre of gravity.

noshed · « **Reply #12 on:** October 29, 2006, 17:01 »

It's all done. Not necessarily pretty - but it works. It still needs a few finishing touches but I think it's weatherproof. It seems to have the approval of at least some of the connoiseurs of such things on our site. The key thing seems to be that every structure must be made of salvaged materials, so mine passes the test.
I'll put up a pic when I can move off the sofa.
Actually I may need to go to the pub to celebrate.
It's pretty big and I've put up a bit of staging so I'll expect to be growing immense crops of something soon.

John · « **Reply #13 on:** October 29, 2006, 17:43 »

Can't be much cop if you built it that quickly - a real greenhouse takes at least a year to build

GrannieAnnie · « **Reply #14 on:** October 29, 2006, 21:42 »

Well it took us 7 months to put up our polytunnel!!!!

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