I've decided to buy a greenhouse, but which?

hi jayg if you need a hand pm me i used build green houses 4 a living im only in donny ok ciderman

Well, finally finished  it without suffering any life-threatening injuries; I proudly present my Homebase/Argos/Halls/Eden/Juliana 8X6 greenhouse!

As you can see from the first picture providing a raised but level base was not easy due to the hardstanding sloping in 2 directions; finished up with the frame chocked up level and square at each corner and cementing in concrete bricks to fill in underneath.

A few observations for those who may have bought or are contemplating buying one of these:

1) There is one opening window and it is mounted on a channel running the length of the roof ridge. You can have the window wherever you like and on either side but only if you thought to mount the roof ridge the right way round with respect to the channel. Not mentioned in the instructions so I had a 50/50 chance of being lucky.
Needless to say, I wasn’t! 

2) The top glass panel in the door is retained in channels top and bottom so is impossible to insert without taking the top rail back off the door which of course you have already mounted on the frame!

3) The kit comes with draught excluder strips for the door for which I could see no mention at all of in the instructions. I thought it had a peel-off backing strip and spent a nice long time trying to peel it off before deciding it hadn't got one and was actually supposed to slide into a channel either side of the door! Guess what? There is no open end to the channel to feed the strip into without taking off the door, the pane of glass above the door, and the top of the door-frame!

4) 3 of the large panes of glass were broken on opening the pack; I have contacted Eden but up to now they don’t appear to be in a hurry to respond.

All in all, time-consuming because of the base, otherwise pretty straightforward and quite good fun.

Just the staging to design and build now…………………..!

That's looking great JayG! Well done!

Quote from: argyllie on September 21, 2010, 16:10

That's looking great JayG! Well done!

You missed the bit when the finger gets in the way   

  I know, I thought that would be too close to the mark! 

Thanks L&L (I think!) 

Joy: you are right in that if I had to build another one this week it would take less than half the time, but wrong to think I want to do another one anytime soon!   

I'm very impressed ... well done mate 

I'm impressed… and envious. I have no space for a greenhouse & they are banned on our lotties but I would love to have one. Yours looks lovely.

A job well done JayG You should be proud of your efforts!!!!!!!!!!!!!