finally got one!

started with this

a few hours later we had this

a few days and lots of dollars later, we have this

got one layer of plastic on yesterday before it rained cats and dogs. Enough to protect my babies from any light frost that might come until this next weekend when it's complete.

tig....congratulations on your new abode??? are your babies, the Brugs....how cold does it really get in Georgia, where you are? Elaine,( brugnut's buddy)

it's usually not too bad, but we did get down to 7° this past winter. I got the heater the Shoe recommended and am hoping for good things:)

Congrats, tiG - lookin' good!

thanks, so much done, so much to do....

if you ever need any help/advice... drop me a line...
I know a thing or two about greenhouses.

drew

thanks drew!!

Verrrry nice! Please post more pictures as you get farther along! You can fit a lot of brugs in there! :)

OOOOO boy! That looks really good. Isn't it fun!!

Congrats tiG! Did your fellas build this from scratch? I looks great... and I bet you are excited! :)

they did build it from scratch. we could have bought a kit for what they spent, but then you have to add shipping....

I love it, and it's sooooooooooo much fun!

ohhh, seems like a good time to bring this kinda thing up...
if anyone here at daves needs some sorta greenhouse parts/accesories etc, I tend to get them fairly cheap.

plus i buy in bulk and know these folks really well www.atlasgreenhouse.com
most of my houses are built by them.
just the same, TIG, I got this nifty stuff called batten tape. It is essentially a black plastic mesh you put over the plastic and staple through into the wood framing on a greenhouse.... plastic in a wind storm or just in general will pull off a staple.

food for thought.

drew

drew, he's planning on putting wooden slats over the plastic to protect the staples. that will work, right? we will probably replace this plastic in the summer with the good stuff anyway, this is 6 mil. wish I'd known at the RU, I would have bent your ear all day.
how expensive is the batten tape?

cheaper and easier to deal with than wood slats.
wood works, but wood will pull up, shrink, stretch etc.
I do both on some spots...

another thing you could do, instead of taking the plastic off, is do some stringers @6ft and use the battentape/wood deal there... that way come warm weather you can raise the sides.
I have a neighbor that does this with her greenhouses...
she has twice my greenhouse space, 8, 200by 35ft houses...
reckon if it works on those, it certainly should work for you.

another thing, I generally use locally sawn cypress as opposed to 2by4's that are treated. They fair better in the end...

ohh and never use 1bys for anything, they split in hard wind, I lost a whole house that way once in 80mph winds...
the footboard and all the plastic blew off.
Made for an interesting 2am.

drew

Drew, where do you get the batten tape? What does it cost?

don't remember rightly.... the farm I bought had rolls and rolls of it sitting around...
than I went to an auction for another grower that went outta business and picked up a bunch of rolls (2,000ft) for like $2 a peice.

lemme look around a bit and see what it costs brand new.

drew

I would like to know too. My gh is shed style, attached to garage so it's 8 ft high on one side, 7 ft on the other for slope and is gh uv panels over 2 x 4s. I have plastic to add a layer to the inside and was planning to do that this weekend. As it will be the interior wall, it will be protected from the wind, but need something to keep the staple from cutting the plastic.

BTY, tiG, great gh. wish mine had more height. some of my brugs are touching the ceiling, others I had to cut. Keep sending update photos.

Linda, try weatherstripping to go between the plastic and the staple.

Great idea, is it cheap?

sure, get that stuff that you put around door frames, about 1/2" wide or so. easy to work with, you just hold it up as you staple. got that idea from this forum, can't remember who to credit though.

Tig it looks wonderful!
I'm impressed and I know how long you've wanted it

Way to go girl!!!

thanks! now to get the door on and power run this weekend and then I'm set to move in. I can barely wait!

If you don't mind me asking tiG (and if you do let me know and I'll delete this :) ), but how much is this thing costing you? Just curious for my own plans...wahahahaha...

about $600 so far with heater, power and gas lines and bubble wrap.

Wow, tiG, that's a deal even though you supplied the labor!

I hope so, it's much more than we expected.

Wow that's great. Who laid the lines?

Johnnie has done it all. He's the handiest man I know.

pat him on the back for me :)

:)

That is very nice and big greenhouse. It looks great!

hey, Bonnie... if you can find a copy, you might want to read an old Rodale book, "Solar Greenhouses". I'm about halfway through, and it gives many wonderful tips about managing greenhouses in general, esp. ones with plastic glazing.

thanks! we don't have panels on it yet, but he's already planning how to improve it next year. He's going to take the pvc roof off and make a real one:) we'll see! LOL!

If you do get a different roof, he Rodale book has a lot of research data on various roofings, specifically with how they affect plant growth as well as heat management, and the importance and effect of air circulation in the GH.

At first, it was hard reading as it is pretty technical, but then I got the hang of all the terminology. I have decided it's a book that definitely belongs among my gardening books, whether I end up with a GH, a cold frame, or just sunny spots in the house for plants.

Batten tape runs about $29.00 for 500ft around here. Its about 1"wide.We decided to go with the KWIC KLIP base and cap on our 12x34 cost at about 92.00. We get alot of staight line winds around here and DH doesnt like to fix things in the middle of the night!Poly Patch 4" was 10.50.Im amazed at the different cost of these supplies.It really pays to shop around.Its kinda like buying hay off season around here.I bought our Poly last year and it was 70.00 for shipping.After looking (real hard) I could have picked it up myself within 40 miles and saved some.Just really got to look around ya know?

tiG, send us some pictures of the inside of your GH whenever you find time from moving plants inside. Bet you are loving it. Donna

Well, lookee here! Your g-house is up and running!
Congrats, tiG!

(And look folks...first thing she put in there is a brug!)

I get batten tape from several sources...HPS comes to mind right off, only cuz I've dealt with them so much on other stuff. You can also use the "shipping strap" that people use to bind down pallets with, not the metal stuff but rather the white polyvinyl (?) flex stuff.

Lookin' good! Lookin' good!