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Beginner Greenhouse - Halls or Vitavia?
benaclarke
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Hi there,
I'm new to the forum and found it while researching tips and reviews on greenhouses -
I'm quite excited as I've wanted one for years and finally got the go-ahead to purchase one 
I really wanted a 6x8 but have had to compromise on a 6 x 4 and have been avidly researching the options ..
I really wanted a 6x8 but have had to compromise on a 6 x 4 and have been avidly researching the options ..After much looking around and rejectingwhat seem to be really, really flimsy options for £300-ish, I've shortlisted a Halls Popular 6 x 4 and a Vitavia Venus 2500 .
I need to buy it in green (one of the compromise criteria!) and as we are on the east coast with a fair amount of wind (and the odd tennis ball from the neighbours) it looks as though toughened glass is the way forward.
It will also sit directly on the ground so I'm thinking I need corner spikes which I can dig holes for and fill around with cement.
They both come in around £440-ish give or take £20 depending on the retailer and I wanted to ask if anyone had any opinions to share regarding which of these is better suited?
Many thanks!
Ben
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It seems a colossal price for such a tiny area? Obviously I don't know the full story but I can't help believe £440 worth of materials plus your own labour wouldn't produce a much better facility. I'll attach an excerpt from a bigger article on Tunnel v Greenhouse which may help you decide.
The answer, but only for the DIY enthusiast, is to create a greenhouse-type building of traditional pitched roof style, but with the ridge positioned off centre at two thirds to three quarters of the width from the south side. With a dividing wall, ideally of reflective plastic, the remaining northern space can then accommodate a water tank and other impedimenta, leaving the majority for crops.
I have a bigger greenhouse now, but I used to have a Halls 6x2 in green lean-to which I had for about 6 years. I was very pleased with it.
Halls have been around forever so they must be doing something right.
I've never heard of Vitavia, but they may well make great greenhouses.
I know the toughened glass is more expensive but well worth the money.
As a lad we had a 16x10 with horticultural glass. Even small knocks or a tennis ball gone awry could shatter a pane into dangerous shards but even as a kid, I'd cut, then putty and nail a new one in.
I've knocked the toughened glass on my new g/house often, and once quite heavily with a full wheelbarrow and so far so good.
Whatever you get you'll always wish for a bigger one
Billericay - Essex
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