You dont ever need to paint it, its powder coated, thought it would look nicer up against green climbers, dark green, with safety glass, openers both sides (roof vents) and a louvre opposite the door, aand no more expensive than the aluminium ones.
Thanks Nanny Beach, I'll have to wait and see what son has bought as he's paying for it. I just need to get yet another water but as he's also order a down pipe.
Up date on progress of Greenhouse. The Greenhouse it's self arrived last Monday the 17th. I have been clearing everything out of the shed ready for it to come down. Son and I finished the clearing today. Then this morning we set to and took down the shed then removed broken shed to tip. We have to make flat the area so the GH can go onto it, it will be and all concrete base as that area get very wet nothing grows there. So below are some pictures of what we did today. With shed down we can see what is under there. Roof felt still to be remove. What a re-leaf it all went in.
So we are one third to the way of getting the greenhouse up. Son said if it doesn't rain on the 15th or 16th July the GH will be up Happy Bunny time More updates as we progress.
If there are no miscreant children around glass looks better has much longer life but has poor heat retention. That looks like a Halls Popular. I'd advise the large panel toughened if you're going with glass as it's easier to clean than overlapping glasses.
Multiwall holds heat better but it can be a faff preparing with the appropriate butyl foil and breather tapes to stop water drawing into the cavities
You could use old storage heater bricks for paving, they act as a thermal mass and will let out stored energy at night. Google for a series "It's Not Easy Being Green" for another method of heat retention using a subterranean heatsink and a solar-powered fan fitted at the apex. If you need replacement glass very few local glaziers have an oven for toughening. Spare glasses for Halls I managed to source from Greenhouse Bonanza which seems to now be at greenhouse. com. They were cheaper the more glasses bought
Reluctant_Gardener Thanks for the above advice on heating so is rigging up something to do with solar power, don't ask me it's way over my head.
The GH is not up and we are both so very tired been hard work since Saturday. We hadn't bargained on the hedgehogs nesting where the rubble is which meant we couldn't disturb them (mum and two babies). We have just got back from shopping went to start work on the GH and rain stopped play heavy rain at that so we just can't do anything, it's very black out there. Due to the base having to be raised up to get it level it has created another job which is I now have to bring the path up to the same height as the base of the GH otherwise it will be difficult to get a wheel barrow down there. Every wished you had never started something, it'll be worth it in the end though. When the GH is up I'll post a photo or two. Son has built it so I have somewhere down the side of the GH for a water butt ( number 8) and for pots. The whole of my garden has not been tended to at all this week and I'm looking forward to hopefully getting on with it next week that is after I've give son a had to clear out the garage and get rid of the stuff left by OH.
Yippy the base is finished, we've covered it with black plastic as the sun has come back and it's very hot. They say rain tomorrow and Saturday so come Sunday we'll put the frame up then Monday weather permitting it'll be glaze. Son and I can hardly move he did all the mixing and helped me get down so I could level the cement mix. We want to try and have a day out next week as a little treat so all the stuff that's to go in the GH won't all be in it but hay we deserve a day out. The hedgehog family have been really tolerant of us collecting some of the rubble which is really close to their nest so I put food and water closed by the nest to encourage then to stay with us.
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With shed down we can see what is under there. Roof felt still to be remove.
What a re-leaf it all went in.
So we are one third to the way of getting the greenhouse up. Son said if it doesn't rain on the 15th or 16th July the GH will be up Happy Bunny time
That looks like a Halls Popular. I'd advise the large panel toughened if you're going with glass as it's easier to clean than overlapping glasses.
Multiwall holds heat better but it can be a faff preparing with the appropriate butyl foil and breather tapes to stop water drawing into the cavities
You could use old storage heater bricks for paving, they act as a thermal mass and will let out stored energy at night.
Google for a series "It's Not Easy Being Green" for another method of heat retention using a subterranean heatsink and a solar-powered fan fitted at the apex.
If you need replacement glass very few local glaziers have an oven for toughening. Spare glasses for Halls I managed to source from Greenhouse Bonanza which seems to now be at greenhouse. com. They were cheaper the more glasses bought
The GH is not up and we are both so very tired been hard work since Saturday. We hadn't bargained on the hedgehogs nesting where the rubble is which meant we couldn't disturb them (mum and two babies). We have just got back from shopping went to start work on the GH and rain stopped play heavy rain at that so we just can't do anything, it's very black out there. Due to the base having to be raised up to get it level it has created another job which is I now have to bring the path up to the same height as the base of the GH otherwise it will be difficult to get a wheel barrow down there. Every wished you had never started something, it'll be worth it in the end though. When the GH is up I'll post a photo or two. Son has built it so I have somewhere down the side of the GH for a water butt ( number 8) and for pots. The whole of my garden has not been tended to at all this week and I'm looking forward to hopefully getting on with it next week that is after I've give son a had to clear out the garage and get rid of the stuff left by OH.