Greenhouse: Adventures with my Sundog, 1 by ecrane3

ecrane3 wrote:
Sunday...roof day! The day I had hoped to finish the stupid thing! Well, you all know what happens to the best laid plans!

I knew the roof would be challenging because it's sort of a big awkward piece (about 5'x5'), and it wasn't super heavy, but I was going to have to climb up on the ladder with it in order to get it perched on top of the greenhouse. Needless to say, this didn't work out too well! So, even though the directions had clearly shown a picture of putting the roof together BEFORE putting it on the greenhouse, I decided to go my own way! I removed the roof panels so it was just the metal frame, then set that on top of the greenhouse. Worked pretty well, now the only trouble was trying to slide the panels in over my head without falling off the ladder. I got the panels in on one side, then decided rather than trying to do the other side next, I'd finish off this side with the vent lid and the couple other panels. Did that...had to use some brute force to get the last panel in, but it's done! Only problem is that some of the parts didn't fit together at quite the right angle, so I've got some odd gaps. I tried loosening all the screws and jiggling stuff to try and get everything square, but it wants to be un-square! I'm going to leave it for now and see if this resolves itself when I finish up the other half of the roof next weekend. Also, the directions failed to point out another one of those places where I was supposed to slide a screw into a slot ahead of time...unfortunately it would have meant taking out a really tricky piece that had taken me at least an hour to get jammed into place, so I decided to use tape instead to hold the next part in place. And I also had to tape the vent lid into place--there's a nice little groove that you're supposed to slide it in, but unfortunately that end of the greenhouse is right smack up against the pole supporting my balcony, so I couldn't get it into the groove. So now I only will have one working vent lid, but I figure I can always open the door a crack to get some cross-breeze going (or just rely on some of the gaps that were left from sticking the roof on!) Some of these decisions are probably not the best for the long term, but at this point I don't really care!

Here it is now (it almost looks done from this angle, but the roof on the other half is still missing)