DAG's Greenhouse

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www.gardensite.co.uk/Elite_Greenhouses/

This one is a 8 ft X 6 ft High Eave model which saves you banging your head on the roof and it includes the metal base which raises it another 6 inches, also with one extra roof vent including an automatic opener and one optional extra glass louvred panel which fixes in anywhere you want it. All aluminium with a green powder coat finish.

All the staging and internal shelving are home made and finished with matching green paint. The staging slats are hardwood battens, sold at the local diy store as poor man's mahogany at a very reasonable price and I made them easily removable by screwing them to black plastic angle pieces that drop into the main framework and keep them distanced apart.

Electricity is supplied from my workshop by an underground armored cable and all waterproof switch gear.

The base is 2 ft X 2 ft concrete paving slabs on a mortar bed on about 4 inches of hardcore and concrete edgings pieces as a border for the frame to sit on. The frame is bolted down.

All glass is toughened and I think 4mm thick. I decided to have the extra roof vent and glad I did, and also glad that one is manual opening and the other automatic as when then temperature is hovering around 60 deg F in the morning for instance it can be very damp and humid and the automatic vent will not open until it gets above that temperature (although it is adjustable) so it is sometimes nice to be able to open manually, mainly at the beginning and end of the season.

Go for the largest size that you can manage and if possible have one large enough to have a divider, especially if you want to grow cucumbers for instance and you can keep that section more moist than the rest.

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I set out to spend about an hour cleaning the glass as it was several years ago that I last cleaned it, he he, but spent all day removing everything that can be moved, rolling up the sunblinds, hoovering out and cleaning the glass both sides........phewwwww!

It was hot work but at least it has been overcast all day so can't complain for this time of the year.

[DAG]

Audra, if I were aiming at growing cucumbers I would grow them directly in the ground and not bother with a crete base, just a heavy frame to fix the GH down to.

The other thing that is handy as it is an extra high model, is that I have fixed up suitable brackets to hang baskets from and they just clear my head but I am short. This also comes in handy at the beginning of the season when the frost is still about.

[victoria]

My goodness DAG, that's spotless .. why did you put a pic up a post?

It's a beautiful greenhouse and I see the tomatoberries there ... I hope they taste as good as they look as I did not realise they were such a tall plant not having grown them myself. Seems like your flycathers are working.

Well done you for all your hard work .... that would be a nightmare in the heat here ....

[shadowdragon]

Oh Dag, that is a perfect little green house! Thank you so much for taking those pics and for the link. I wonder if they ship to the U.S. If not I will try to find something that compares.

[DAG]

Audra, I would try and buy something local, the weight of the glass is quite unbelievable and I would think very expensive to ship out from here. Your safety standards of glass and other considerations may well be different from ours especially in your environment.

There must be something comparable over your side of the pond, one thing to watch out for is how the glass is fixed. You don't want those awful clips that are normally used on greenhouses over here as you cannot clean round them and only hold the glass where the clip is.

My greenhouse has continuous extrusions the hold the glass all the way along and very easy to clean as there are no nasty bits.

Green powder coating is an extra on the price and mainly cosmetic but after 5 years it still looks like new being an extra hard protective coating.

Another thing to watch out for is that some optional extras can only be ordered when buying the greenhouse so make sure you get everything to start with, particularly extra vents/louvres.

Also I think the base to go with it (usually an extra) is well worthwhile as it gives you a decent start and the extra height is so desirable.

The only thing I would do differently is that I would add another louvered vent at high level in the end opposite the door. A better through draft would be nice and also somewhere to let out the insects like butterflies and bees that get in there and just never seem to go out the roof vents! ;D

[pete]

Dag that looks like new.

You can come and clean mine if you like ;D

[kedigato]

I almost said "mine too" but I don't have a greenhouse. However, I have plenty of (dirty) windows in the house. ;D ;D