Wilko's Cloche is pants!

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Glen

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Wilko's Cloche is pants!
« on: March 25, 2008, 20:48 »
Got one of these and have to say its pants and a waste of a fiver!

The plastic splits very very easy and also the plastic support posts snap as well! Not impressed.

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Leaf

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Wilko's Cloche is pants!
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2008, 20:51 »
know what they say, get what you pay for, cant afford to buy cheap,
i always get sucked into bargins!
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cooperman

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Wilko's Cloche is pants!
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2008, 22:17 »
thats why its always better to cobble summat together out of a bit of old tat, my cloches and cold frames have all been made out of bits of skip, chuck outs and suchlike debris, the cold frames I knocked together five years ago are still going strong....
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Wilko's Cloche is pants!
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2008, 00:29 »
Have you seen the price of the old glass victorian style cloches?
They are unbelievably expensive (30 odd quid! Imagine the cost kitting out your veg patch?! :?
Plastic pop bottles do as good a job, albeit not as attractive but that's not the point is it. :)

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vegmandan

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Wilko's Cloche is pants!
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2008, 01:11 »
You spent a fiver.....

What do you think the poor sods who've spent £250,000 on a Barratt House think ?

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Ruby Red

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Re: Wilko's Cloche is pants!
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2008, 07:24 »
Quote from: "Glen"
Got one of these and have to say its pants and a waste of a fiver!

The plastic splits very very easy and also the plastic support posts snap as well! Not impressed.

 
   Just take it back. You dont need a receipt, only if you want your money back. You could exchange for something else.
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beki

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Wilko's Cloche is pants!
« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2008, 10:12 »
I've got a couple of these. They're not up yet though.

The cloches/mini poly tunnel things i got for £1 from poundland are fab though! Stayed up during all this horrid wind and rain we;'ve been having! Just sunk the plastic into the mud a bit  :wink:
Trying to live the good life.. getting there slooooowly...

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chicken soup

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Re: Wilko's Cloche is pants!
« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2008, 11:43 »
Quote from: "Glen"
Got one of these and have to say its pants and a waste of a fiver!

The plastic splits very very easy and also the plastic support posts snap as well! Not impressed.


I totally agree I got one put it up and had it weighed down with a breeze block at one end and a heavy compost bag at the other, but a week later the plastic had come off and two of the plastic supports had snapped. :evil:  :evil:  

I wish I could take it back but I threw away the receipt and the wrapping. Just wish I could have found some of those pound ones in pound land they seem to be much better.
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Stripey_cat

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Wilko's Cloche is pants!
« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2008, 21:09 »
I have some fairly similar ones from Lidl, and managed to snap a pole first off.  For the rest, I found that warming them helps (on a radiator for a few minutes), and bending them very gently and smoothly into the curve.


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