"George.com" wrote:

"David in Normandy" wrote in message
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Frederick Williams wrote:
Can anyone recommend web sites that instruct one in the building of a
greenhouse? Googling doesn't turn up anything interesting.

I built my own once at a previous house. I plan to do so again sometime at
my new house. A lot depends on the balance you want between useful and
pretty. I didn't use any plans - other than my own sketches. It is a
simple matter to use some 3" x 2" pressure treated timbers to build a
frame and fasten clear corrugated PVC sheets to it. You don't need to make
any fancy joints if you don't want to, just use metal angle joining
brackets which are cheaply available from places like Wilko's. The hardest
job with mine was laying a concrete floor - I mixed all the concrete by
hand and it was back-breaking.

does it have to be a concrete floor? My neighbour has a glasshouse with dirt
beds for growing his tomatos.

I fancy a soil floor.

My polytunnel partially sits on an old
concrete pad that used to have a garden shed. The rest of the tunnel I have
put in to raised dirt beds for planting & wooden pallets between for a walk
way. I would like to get rid of the concrete pad to create more garden beds
but it is a pain. It need not be a concrete floor, flagstones, pallets etc
will do.

rob


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