New greenhouse.....
 

just had it installed today:-) nice 8*11 pressure treated deal timber one.
i laid a good 6inch concrete base for it...looks the biz! seems well
designed, with no places for water to pool and rot the wood...should last
ages. but should i do any more to it i.e. creosote or should i just leave
it?

Steve

"r.p.mcmurphy" wrote in message
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just had it installed today:-) nice 8*11 pressure treated deal timber
one.
i laid a good 6inch concrete base for it...looks the biz! seems well
designed, with no places for water to pool and rot the wood...should last
ages. but should i do any more to it i.e. creosote or should i just leave
it?

Using creosote is illegal.

Marcus

the wood should be treated, if it isn't already

can't beat a proper wooden greenhouse though, no draughts!


"r.p.mcmurphy" wrote in message
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just had it installed today:-) nice 8*11 pressure treated deal timber
one. i laid a good 6inch concrete base for it...looks the biz! seems well
designed, with no places for water to pool and rot the wood...should last
ages. but should i do any more to it i.e. creosote or should i just leave
it?

Steve

In article ,
r.p.mcmurphy writes
just had it installed today:-) nice 8*11 pressure treated deal timber one.
i laid a good 6inch concrete base for it...looks the biz! seems well
designed, with no places for water to pool and rot the wood...should last
ages. but should i do any more to it i.e. creosote or should i just leave
it?

Steve




My Alton one has a bad design fault where the roof glass lies on top of
a horizontal wooden strip so that they water runs down the glass and
onto the strip, this has been the first thing to rot.
However we've had the greenhouse since 1981.
We treat it every year or so with special cedar wood stuff, think it was
Cuprinol. Shouldn't think you'd need it when it's brand new.
Other place it has sagged is the roof beam as there's little central
bracing on the Dutch light style greenhouse (one that splays out at the
bottom)
Also no rotting along the horizontal bar along the concrete foundation.

janet
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

just had it installed today:-) nice 8*11 pressure treated deal timber
one.
i laid a good 6inch concrete base for it...looks the biz! seems well
designed, with no places for water to pool and rot the wood...should last
ages. but should i do any more to it i.e. creosote or should i just leave
it?

Steve




My Alton one has a bad design fault where the roof glass lies on top of a
horizontal wooden strip so that they water runs down the glass and onto
the strip, this has been the first thing to rot.
However we've had the greenhouse since 1981.
We treat it every year or so with special cedar wood stuff, think it was
Cuprinol. Shouldn't think you'd need it when it's brand new.
Other place it has sagged is the roof beam as there's little central
bracing on the Dutch light style greenhouse (one that splays out at the
bottom)
Also no rotting along the horizontal bar along the concrete foundation.

janet

lucky that my roof has no such horizontal bars rot, all panes of glass
terminate in a way that the water runs straight off the structure except two
easily replaceable wood blocks that hold them in place at their lower end.
Its a good solid structure to, with very little give anywhere i grab it. I
concreted the base so as to allow water run off to.....run off and not down
and onto the base, so hopefully the base timbers will not rot either:-) It
is a Malvern Greenhouse 8foot by 11foot.

Steve

In article , Janet Tweedy
writes
Also no rotting along the horizontal bar along the concrete foundation.


Bother .....................

I meant to say

Also NOW rotting along the horizontal bar along the concrete foundation.

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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk