"CWatters" wrote in message
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"Bender" wrote in message
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The greenhouse is going to sit on a 2' wall to protect from potential
flooding. This years rains put the bottom of my garden in 6 inch of
water.

Perhaps a beam and block floor would be easier than filling the inside
with
hardcore and concrete.



Having read that response, I am confused ;-). Is the greenhouse going to sit
high up with the floor at existing level? Or, as I now suspect, it is going
to sit on a slab 2 ft high which WILL take it out of the flood area and
steps will be needed to get to it?

Problems with this:-
Lifting it this high watering cans are going to have to be taken up steps,
unless rain butts or a tap are arranged up there.
Is the greenhouse now going to be subject to windage?
What if at a later stage you wish to move the greenhouse?
What will prospective purchasers think of having a 2 ft x X feet x X feet
concrete slab in the garden?
The roof of your greenhouse is going to be 8 ft +? how many feet in the air.
Planning permission? Complaints from neighbours as an 'eye sore'?

Just a few thoughts.

Mike


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