Photo by Melody

Greenhouse: Building a geodesic dome greenhouse, 1 by tropicalaria

Communities > Forums

Image Copyright tropicalaria

In reply to: Building a geodesic dome greenhouse

Forum: Greenhouse

<<< Previous photo Back to post
Photo of Building a geodesic dome greenhouse
tropicalaria wrote:
I'm using the woven plastic material in 10' width, which is just wide enough to accomodate the height of the triangular patches that I'm cutting out. I'm going to use cheap construction plastic to trace a template directly on the dome itself, and then lay it over the real plastic to mark each section. I will leave a few inches of overlap plastic around the pieces to accomodate the seams.

The actual attachment to the dome will be done with plastic lathing on the overlapped seam, secured by staples and wide top nails at strategic points. The trick, of course, will be accessing the top of the dome to put these in...