Greenhouse: New Greenhouse, 1 by BuriedTreasures

BuriedTreasures wrote:
And off we go.


Today is Day 1 of the construction of BT's first Greenhouse. All of our growing to date has been in community beds, and on ground cloth, so I'm pretty excited to get a little better control of environmental challenges.

Our carpenter that's constructing is a New York licensed and trained Union carpenter, and has done several projects for us personally, but nothing within the nursery industry. Very meticulous, and talented, with a sharp head on his shoulders. I gave him some ideas, and the next thing you know he's running things by me like he's been building greenhouses his whole life.

we're spreading this out over a 2 month time frame to defray costs a bit, but hope to have plants in it by the end of November.

Greenhouse size 20' x 40'

1st Stage materials:
27 - 4x4x12 PT Lumber
27 - 8" Concrete forms
40 - 60lb bags of concrete
1 - 2 Man Post Hole Digger with 10" bit.

Day 1: Today was spent digging 27 holes where the main supports will go in. The holes were dug using a 2 man, 10" auger, and dug to a depth of 48 inches. A couple of the concrete forms made it into the holes to day, and the rest will go in tomorrow, along with the 4x4x12 posts.

Not much to see in the pic, but I wanted to document it as it went along. Pardon the mess. It's a construction zone now.

:-)

Chris


This message was edited Sep 15, 2008 5:28 PM