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Post by daylilydude on Jun 3, 2011 22:55:42 GMT -5
Wifey has given me permission  to build me a greenhouse, so it'll just be an 8x10, but I'm not sure what to use as the cover? Any ideas? And yes, there will be picks made of the progress, but it will be like Sept. or Oct. before I start it. |
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Post by michaeljohnson on Jun 4, 2011 1:07:20 GMT -5
Whatever you use to build the greenhouse with- make sure that it is (South facing) as you always get the best results from a south facing greenhouse because of the longer light hours and sun exposure-plants grow better.
Also- if you live in an area where there is a lot of snow in the winter, make sure that you build it away from the angle of your house roof, because I know of two incidences this last year where greenhouses were completely destroyed by snow sliding off the house roof and crushing the greenhouse- with a bit of geometry one can work out roughly where the snow would land after it slid off the roof and build it about four foot away from that area.
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Post by okiedrifter on Jun 4, 2011 7:27:08 GMT -5
Mine was distroyed by a freak snowstorm winter before last Honey is gonna rebuild it this year...we ordered a covering from a company that covers the greenhouses at La.tec it was Hi dollar but the green house steel buckled but my top did not tear..and I will be reusing it.....I will send you a site from where we built our green house this guy is awesome and answers his own phone and answers all your questions.....hoopbenders.net
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Post by sorellina on Jun 4, 2011 9:58:19 GMT -5
That is very exciting, Rich! Your wifey loves you very much.  |
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Post by txdirtdog on Jun 4, 2011 10:16:02 GMT -5
Congratulations!
I don't have a recommendation for cover material, but if your winter is like ours, I have a suggestion regarding the build.
I bought one of those 4-shelf mini-greenhouses that has the 3 different covers (primary is vinyl). My main issue was not warming it, it was keeping it cool enough not to cook the plants when the sun hit it around 9 - 10 AM.
Make sure you build it so that you have maximum ventilation available if needed. Also, get a remote thermometer. Preferably with an alarm that goes off if the temp goes up to a certain temp or down to a certain temp. Learning to keep the temp within a certain range will take some experimenting.
Good luck! I so look forward to building one later on for year-round growing.
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Post by daylilydude on Jun 6, 2011 7:12:24 GMT -5
Ok, we have been doing some shopping around on prices, and for what I want, it will be a pressure treated wood frame and corrugated fiberglass sheets to cover it!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2011 5:39:43 GMT -5
Congrats, Daylilydude! I'd love a heated greenhouse, just can't afford it yet. My coldframes will have to do for awhile yet. I'm putting more in this year.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2011 23:03:25 GMT -5
I used "Suntuff" UV protected on one side. Going on 9 years & still clear. A polycarbonate plastic, tough, made for Green Houses. A little more spendy, but will out last the other stuff & make it worth it. My 1st one was fiberglass, it yellowed pretty quick & gets brittle over time. Mine GH is 8 X 12 (sheets at HD are 8 ft & 12 ft) A must for tomatoes & cucs in Alaska. Frozen/dormant pic, handles snow load & wind well.  |
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Post by izitmidnight on Jun 14, 2011 7:36:13 GMT -5
What a beautiful greenhouse!
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Post by coppice on Jun 14, 2011 8:26:06 GMT -5
Ok, we have been doing some shopping around on prices, and for what I want, it will be a pressure treated wood frame and corrugated fiberglass sheets to cover it! DLD, a few times I've seen a prefabb-ed strip cut that matches the corrigations of single thickness clear poly roofing sheets.. My but, here, is I don't always see it when I am on rummage in bix-box stores. You might want to hoard up some of those prefab strips for tight eves. You'll use a whole lot less caulking to make a tighter (and as a result) warmer green house. FWIW, back when I had a built-in cold frame. on really cold nights late in winter in NH; a thrown over sheet of clear plastic and a kerosene lantern or two went a really long way to adding the 10° to 20° of heat to my 4x16 cold frame... Use the pricey ultra-filtered parafin, over plain jane kero indoors. it stinks less. |
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Post by daylilydude on Jun 14, 2011 11:05:46 GMT -5
I used "Suntuff" UV protected on one side. Going on 9 years & still clear. A polycarbonate plastic, tough, made for Green Houses. A little more spendy, but will out last the other stuff & make it worth it. My 1st one was fiberglass, it yellowed pretty quick & gets brittle over time. Mine GH is 8 X 12 (sheets at HD are 8 ft & 12 ft) A must for tomatoes & cucs in Alaska. Frozen/dormant pic, handles snow load & wind well. WOW!! Great looking greenhouse you have, and I have a question? How are the panels fastened to the frame? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2011 21:37:27 GMT -5
Screws with a rubber washer. I used allot of screws because I'm in a windy area during the winter. Lost a GH in a wind storm so I built my own Alaska tough. Similar to the screw for metal roofing but not self tapping. Lumber yard is also a place to find the GH sheeting & the "wiggle molding" that is the same pattern as the sheeting to seal the endsß.  |
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Post by peppereater on Jul 7, 2011 22:45:21 GMT -5
dld, sorry I haven't been posting but lots of stuff going on, and not much of it gardening. I'd suggest you do some serious research before you build a greenhouse, there are good quick and cheap options, with short lifespans, and all kinds of longer term solutions from reasonably priced to outrageous. I've been looking into it for years, but I'll try to just point you towards some places to start. Here's a website for a place with about anything and everything to do with greenhouse growing, from beneficial insects and microbes to fertilizer, irrigation, and greenhouse systems from hobby size to multi-thousand acre solutions for desert conditions, etc. They offer a free catalogue which will give you tons of ideas, and probably products for other gardening projects you'll be doing (their biological insect controls and fertilizer compounds are amazing.) I was sorry to see that the website isn't as useful as it once was, or so it seemed from a quick look just now. Their hobby greenhouses are expensive compared to some, but you'll get some ideas about what to look for. anyway, here's the link: www.hydro-gardens.com/index.htmAnother thing I'd suggest is to look at the greenhouses they sell at Harbor Freight. I bought a kit a few years back and never had a chance to get it set up, shame on me, I know! But, everything about their greenhouse kits seem identical to one's offered at many other sites at a fraction of the cost. Double-wall poly walls, aliminum frames in heavy guage, roof vents, the works...plus they offered automatic vent openers for very cheap, they were $20 a few years back when others were selling them for $60 and up. Looks like they've got one at Mobile, don't know if that's even anywhere close to you, but here's the store finder page, and you can get anything mail order. www.harborfreight.com/store-finder/and here's their greenhouses, right now they have a storewide sale for 20% off any one item. Here are their greenhouses www.harborfreight.com/lawn-garden/greenhouses-and-garden-supplies.htmlDefinitely worth a look, dldude. I'll post more later, but for what you'll spend on materials, and the drawbacks alot of materials have, you have bunches of options to build a really good, permanent GH. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2011 23:23:42 GMT -5
dld, sorry I haven't been posting but lots of stuff going on, and not much of it gardening. I'd suggest you do some serious research before you build a greenhouse, there are good quick and cheap options, with short lifespans, and all kinds of longer term solutions from reasonably priced to outrageous. I've been looking into it for years, but I'll try to just point you towards some places to start. Here's a website for a place with about anything and everything to do with greenhouse growing, from beneficial insects and microbes to fertilizer, irrigation, and greenhouse systems from hobby size to multi-thousand acre solutions for desert conditions, etc. They offer a free catalogue which will give you tons of ideas, and probably products for other gardening projects you'll be doing (their biological insect controls and fertilizer compounds are amazing.) I was sorry to see that the website isn't as useful as it once was, or so it seemed from a quick look just now. Their hobby greenhouses are expensive compared to some, but you'll get some ideas about what to look for. anyway, here's the link: www.hydro-gardens.com/index.htmAnother thing I'd suggest is to look at the greenhouses they sell at Harbor Freight. I bought a kit a few years back and never had a chance to get it set up, shame on me, I know! But, everything about their greenhouse kits seem identical to one's offered at many other sites at a fraction of the cost. Double-wall poly walls, aliminum frames in heavy guage, roof vents, the works...plus they offered automatic vent openers for very cheap, they were $20 a few years back when others were selling them for $60 and up. Looks like they've got one at Mobile, don't know if that's even anywhere close to you, but here's the store finder page, and you can get anything mail order. www.harborfreight.com/store-finder/and here's their greenhouses, right now they have a storewide sale for 20% off any one item. Here are their greenhouses www.harborfreight.com/lawn-garden/greenhouses-and-garden-supplies.htmlDefinitely worth a look, dldude. I'll post more later, but for what you'll spend on materials, and the drawbacks alot of materials have, you have bunches of options to build a really good, permanent GH. I have just completed the project of Greenhouse with the technical help from hydro-gardens.com/index.html.Thanks for sharing information. |
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Post by grapenut on Aug 15, 2011 1:17:55 GMT -5
..plus they offered automatic vent openers for very cheap, they were $20 a few years back when others were selling them for $60 and up. ,. I would be very Leary about getting cheep automatic vent openers, many people I know have said they either don't work or just don't last long. it would be a shame to have a bunch of seedlings cook because the vent didn't open on a nice sunny day. |
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Post by Durgan on Oct 31, 2011 14:22:55 GMT -5
www.durgan.org/URL/?HKERY 5 November 2010 Greenhouse on Deck. I decided to build a large greenhouse on the deck, which doesn’t get much use. The enclosure will be a sun room if appropriate, instead of the canvas structure that use to be there. I have a small 10,000 BTU heater that connects to the barbecue natural gas outlet, so will have some warmth, and will get some use during the Winter months from Mid February to June for seed starting. It took nine days to build by myself, about 72 hours of labor, from 28 of October to 5 November, and cost $1798.63. Description of the construction. Six, 6 by 6 pillars support the structure. The auxiliary supports are all 2 by 6 spruce planks. Two doors were installed plus a window to ensure reasonably good ventilation. I got the doors free of charge. The slope of the roof is from 8 feet to 7 feet, with a pitch of 1 in 12. Sun is available for about two third of the structure all day. Wood was used to cover the walls where no Sun penetrates. Corrugated SUNTUF UV protected panels was used. It is relatively low cost compared to other coverings, and is almost indestructible. Pictures depict highlights of the method used. Plans were in my head.
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Post by w8in4dave on Oct 31, 2011 17:45:24 GMT -5
I am going to tell my hubbs he should just take my green house down.. it has been 4 or 5 years and it is still not finished. He may as well take it down. It ticks me off!!
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