I've just agreed to buy second hand a 5m diameter geodesic greenhouse
(glass house). I have to dismantle, move it then re-erect it in my
garden. Has anyone any advice as to the best way to do this? To what
constituent parts (pentagons and hexagons, or triangles?)should I break
it down to? How best should I rebuild it? Anyone out there done this?

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I've just agreed to buy second hand a 5m diameter geodesic greenhouse
(glass house). I have to dismantle, move it then re-erect it in my
garden. Has anyone any advice as to the best way to do this? To what
constituent parts (pentagons and hexagons, or triangles?)should I break
it down to? How best should I rebuild it? Anyone out there done this?

Not done that, but would seem like a good idea to mark bits with numbers so that
they correspond. Might make reconstruction easier :~))
Jenny

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I've just agreed to buy second hand a 5m diameter geodesic greenhouse
(glass house). I have to dismantle, move it then re-erect it in my
garden. Has anyone any advice as to the best way to do this? To what
constituent parts (pentagons and hexagons, or triangles?)should I break
it down to? How best should I rebuild it? Anyone out there done this?

Break it down to the biggest sections you can transport easily, and
take a large bundle of tie-on tags and label everything.

Anthony

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On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 20:54:30 +0100, "JennyC"
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I've just agreed to buy second hand a 5m diameter geodesic greenhouse
(glass house). I have to dismantle, move it then re-erect it in my
garden. Has anyone any advice as to the best way to do this? To what
constituent parts (pentagons and hexagons, or triangles?)should I break
it down to? How best should I rebuild it? Anyone out there done this?

Not done that, but would seem like a good idea to mark bits with numbers
so that
they correspond. Might make reconstruction easier :~))

If you look at the million and one links I posted, most normal garden
sized domes seem to be made for DIY assembly with detailed
instructions provided. They are delivered as tubes and interface
pieces etc. I couldn't find a site that showed how the glass is
attached. Is glass used or are the panels transparent plastic?
I'm quite tempted to make a DIY one. I could do with one over the
house at the moment, the tiles have moved either because of the
December gale or because of the recent snow and we have water dripping
into the roof space.
--
Martin
Do you mean something like this?
http://www.edenproject.com/ or this
http://bfi.org/node/441

A friend once built one of these as a greenhouse but it acted more like a
solar furnace and shrivelled everything he tried to grow.

Thanks everybody for all your ideas. And a solar furnace might be OK
here on the drizzly west coast of scotland....