Prevent Wind Damage To Your Greenhouse

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ALL greenhouses are particularly vulnerable to wind damage, and even more so when new.

Of course, some models are stronger in the wind, but they are ALL vulnerable to wind damage – EVEN THE VERY STRONGEST MODELS AVAILABLE IN BRITAIN. So we recommend that you take the potential threat of the wind to damage your greenhouse very seriously not just when choosing your greenhouse, but also positioning it, maintaining it and checking it on an ongoing basis.

Severe winds are so much more common nowadays- the kind of wind which we used to see once every 10 years, now seems to come more than once a year!

To help prevent panes of glass blowing out and to minimize the risk of more serious damage follow these steps:

Position your greenhouse in a position that is as sheltered from the wind as possible. Consider planting hedges or positioning fences as protection from the winds in the future.

Go for the strongest greenhouse you can afford: as a general rule, the more you spend (on the basic frame- not your total bill), the stronger the frame will be. Consider bar capping to replace clips if it is available.

If your glass is held in with clips, your greenhouse is most vulnerable to panes of glass blowing out in high winds. To help prevent this, we recommend using silicone sealant to secure the clips.

Alternatively if you have an Elite or Peak greenhouse you can replace the clips with Bar capping, a full length PVC capping system that secures the glass all the way up and holds it far more firmly in windy conditions.

Please ring us on 0870 4422328 for details.

M ake sure your greenhouse is anchored down to the floor as securely as possible. If your greenhouse is on slabs or concrete; drill and screw it down with brown Rawlplugs and 2″ no 10 screws using a 7mm hammer drill bit.

Make sure that your greenhouse is attached properly to your metal base (if applicable) Although some bases come with metal ‘J-clips’ to attach them to the greenhouse, If you live in windy conditions, we recommend that you drill through the cill of the greenhouse, through the base and bolt them together with a standard greenhouse bolt and nut. Do this about every 2-4′ around the greenhouse. This provides a good extra precaution. (Take care if you do this before glazing that your bolt head will not be in the way of the glass)

Shelter your greenhouse by situating fences or hedging in the way of the prevailing winds. Also be aware that areas that look ‘sheltered’ may in fact be ‘wind tunnels’ (e.g down the side of a house)

This is very important

Before heavy winds, make sure that your doors and windows are closed and will stay closed during the wind. If you have a sliding door that has no catch to keep it closed, then you can secure it by drilling a hole in the top door track and inserting a padlock.

After heavy winds, Check your greenhouse. You may find that some clips have moved and got behind the glass and are not securing it – This may weaken the fixing of the pane, then later it may blow out in a comparatively mild wind. These clips need repositioning as soon as possible and to help keep them in place you can put some silione around them. Likewise you may even have had a pane blow out and without checking you may never realize it: this is a dangerous situation because there is a gap in the greenhouse and if the wind gets up again it could cause some more damage quickly. NEVER try and repair your greenhouse whilst it is still windy.

If you haven’t actually ordered your greenhouse yet, then we recommend that you choose a Hercules or a Robinsons greenhouse for the best wind resistance. But even with these very strongst models, you should remain vigilent.

Your greenhouse is usually included on your home insurance, but it’s as well to check this when you talk to your insurers. No greenhouse manufacturer that we know of gives any kind of guarantee for damage caused to your greenhouse by wind.

Please do take the threat posed to your greenhouse by the wind seriously. A few more precautions and a little regular vigilance and maintenance will stack the odds in your favour. If you can see a problem early it can often be mended easily and prevent the damage spreading.

If you have lost some panes of glass, then you can usually get this quickly from your local glass shop. We do stock most of the glass sizes of course, and if you are able to collect from our warehouse in Stoke-on-Trent then we an supply it for you at the best possible price – sometimes less than half the price of your local glass shop. However if you can’t collect from our warehouse, your local glass shop will usually be quicker and cheaper.

If glass does blow out of your greenhouse, try and block the hole as quickly as possible even if it’s just with a blanket held on with clothes pegs- this stops the wind getting in and casing further damage. Of course you can get glass from us, but we only recommend that you get your replacement glass from us if you are able to collect it. We can not deliver glass in small quantities for a competitive price. If you are unsure where you can get glass locally, then you can type ‘glass merchant’ into www.yell.com

If the worst happens, and your greenhouse is destroyed by winds, then you should contact your insurance company who will advise you what to do- Usually, this may be to get a written quotation for a replacement. We can help with providing quotations for replacements including removal of the old greenhouse and assembly of the new please call us on 0870 442 2328.

The Greenhouse People – http://www.greenhousepeople.co.uk – UK suppliers of Greenhouses for all your growing needs – we stock wooden greenhouses, glass greenhouses, Robinsons greenhouses, Super 7 propagators and many more.


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Q&A: What are some ideas for a fundrasier t-shirt to build a greenhouse?

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Question by kay: What are some ideas for a fundrasier t-shirt to build a greenhouse?
My class at my high school is trying to raise money to build the school a greenhouse. I was put in charge of designing it and so far all I have is “Operation Greenhouse” and “keepin it green”. Any rhyming slogans you can think of? Or relate it to Jersey Shore with a quote from someone or making up a creative acronym for G.T.L.?

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Answer by John
I’ll do anything for a donation, I mean ANYTHING! Make sure you wear it tight too

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Building a Greenhouse Yourself vs Buying a Greenhouse Kit

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Building a greenhouse yourself is not that difficult, buy you can save some time and work by buying a pre-built greenhouse kit. There are many types of pre-built designs, models and sizes but the one thing they have in common is you are paying an over inflated price for the materials.

For many people, the extra cost is worth it. The pre-built greenhouses do have some advantages besides just being easy to build. Many of them are well designed and someone has probably put a lot of thought and experience into the design and the construction. They are also usually visually attractive and often look more refined than home built designs.

There are also many advantages to building your own, and for many people who are at least a little handy, this can be the best choice. When you build your own, you can do it for a fraction of the cost and you have more control over the design and size of your greenhouse, and you can build it to suit your own tastes and the exact use that you want for it.

Although a greenhouse doesn’t have to be difficult to build from scratch, it should not be just thrown together without spending some time planning and educating yourself on how to best build it. There are many different designs and materials you can build it out of. The choices you make in those areas can greatly affect the way your greenhouse will perform.

Unless you have been building and maintaining greenhouses for many years, consulting a professional who has can pay off greatly over the many years that you will be using it. There are many resources available to learn about building greenhouses and a good guide with greenhouse plans written by a professional will be well worth the small amount of money that it might cost.

There are a few important things you should learn before you decide to build your own greenhouse or before choosing the right pre-built kit. You should learn about how the different shapes and sizes will determine how light is distributed to your plants, and which will retain heat better in cool weather. Proper ventilation, heating and water distribution are also important.

One of the major ongoing costs of a greenhouse can be heating in a cool climate if you plan to grow plants year round. Different designs can help retain heat better and in milder climates can eliminate the need for heating. There are also methods that don’t require gas, oil or electricity to heat your greenhouse that you may want to know about.

Whether you build your own from scratch or buy a kit, having a greenhouse can be a life changing experience in diet and lifestyle. Choosing the proper designs will pay off many times over in the performance you get out of your greenhouse plants.

Learn how to build your own greenhouse or choose the right kit with this greenhouse guide.

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Good ideas for a garden wedding?

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Question by monicanena: Good ideas for a garden wedding?
I want a spring wedding set in a formal greenhouse with white linens, wooden tables and chairs, natural grass centerpieces and a string quartet. What else can I add?
I already have the location – it’s a formal indoor greenhouse.

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Answer by Barbara B
Depending on where you live, I would look into various botanical gardens – Milwaukee WI has a great one – as does Chicago, Richmond VA has 2 great wedding spots (Maymont Park and Louis Ginter) to rent. The University of IL in Champaign has wonderful gardens/greenhouses etc.

Call their events/public relations directors

Also, get a contingency plan for “April showers”

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Is Your Greenhouse Going To Be OK In January Weather?

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Greenhouse is mainly built of glass or plastic roof material that would heat up inside. Why this is so? It is because it warms up the air inside as the sun warms up the ground.

The air remains to heat up because it is enclosed within the greenhouse not like the condition outside the greenhouse where the hot air close to the surface will come up and creates with more cooler air up above.

This can be shown by opening a small window close to the roof of a greenhouse: the degree of heat or the humidity will fall to some extent. It has also been demonstrated experimentally that a “greenhouse” with a cover of rock salt heats up an enclosure similarly to one with a glass cover.

As we all know, a greenhouse is the suppression of controlling the temperature and humidity for the cultivation and the protection of your plants or vegetables inside the greenhouse. Thus, a real greenhouse does act like a blanket to prevent bubbles of warm air from being carried away from the surface.

As we have seen, this is not how the atmosphere keeps the earth’s surface warm. Indeed, the atmosphere facilitates rather than suppresses convection.

One sometimes hears the comparison between the greenhouse effect in the atmosphere (not in real greenhouses) and the interior of a parked car which has been left in the summer sun with its windows rolled up.

This comparison is as phony as is the comparison to real greenhouses. Again, keeping the windows closed merely suppresses convection. Whether the topic is a real greenhouse or a car, one still hears the old saw that each stays warm because visible radiation (light) can pass through the windows, and infrared radiation cannot.

In fact, it has been known for a century now that the issue about this is given a little attention. Greenhouse is one step closer to Devon island. Mars on earth: the nasa Haughton-mars project.

A greenhouse is one of the best parts of greenhouse gardening for working with shade cloths, earth boxes, cold frames, and greenhouses can greatly improve your chances.

Sometimes, a greenhouse will be built against a building or by using the present construction for one or more of its sides. It is usually secured to a house, but may be attached to other buildings.

The greenhouse is limited to single or double-row plant benches with a total width of 7 to 12 feet. It can be as high as the edifice to which it is attached. The advantage of the lean-to greenhouse is that it usually is close to available electricity, water, and heat.

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Are these the only material needed to maintain a greenhouse?

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Question by stickythin: Are these the only material needed to maintain a greenhouse?

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2475222/essential_supplies_for_your_greenhouse.html?cat=32

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I’m in the process of building a 16×28 attached greenhouse and your article touches on the basics but things get much more complicated in actual practice. The first thing is to do your research, which you are doing. Feel free to email me for more spcifics. RScott

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Success with Polythene Plastic Tunnels – All Year Round Environment for Sowing and Growing

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The Garden Gift Nursery – http://www.thegardengift.ie/ – in Newmarket, Co. Cork which has been marketing Polythene Tunnels for the past 30 years, has announced the results of an experiment it conducted recently to extend the growing season of plants using the plastic greenhouses.

The work has been conducted under the polythene tunnels in their garden centre in Newmarket and interim results have shown that with the cooler summer climate in Ireland using a plastic tunnel does help protect crops and extend the growing season of plants.

Polythene Tunnels are increasingly being used in many fields of horticulture in Ireland and other countries. Gardens large and small, commercial nurseries and specialist growers all enjoy the benefits that these tunnel can provide.

Liam Allen, managing director of the Garden Gift said, “I have been pleased with the quality of the plants we have grown last year under the tunnels and we intend to expand our production of other plant species this year.”

While glass has been the dominant cladding for greenhouses today’s world of rapidly changing markets, pressures of ever increasing competition, trends in health and safety, and speed of technological change, the case for plastic clad greenhouses has never been stronger.

Liam Allen points out that, “A commercial polytunnel greenhouse purchased today is as reliable as a glass clad structure. The cost of replacement plastic cladding every 5 years compares favourably with the maintenance cost of glass.”

Plastics are available which incorporate additives which selectively block or enhance certain wavelengths, improve growth rates, inhibit certain diseases, and enable correspondingly reduced use of chemicals. Since plastic cladding has to be changed every 4 to 5 years, it is easy to keep up with technical advances. Conversely, there are inbuilt problems of cost for users of glass.

“Plastic Tunnels are low cost and crops remain cool in summer whilst being protected from the vagaries of the weather. This ensures that quality is maintained and also makes harvesting possible on wet days,” says Mr. Allen.

Along with running a successful nursery business supplying polythene greenhouses, glasshouses, ground cover, replacement polythene, garden arches etc. to commercial and domestic markets, Liam Allen also operates the Irish franchise for Rola Trac, the innovative and versatile replacement walkway system.

For more information or media interviews contact:

Liam Allen,

Allens Of Allenbridge,

Newmarket, Co. Cork,

Ireland

Phone: 00353 29 60000

Fax:00353 29 60091

Web: http://www.thegardengift.ie/

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Purchasing Your Own Cheap Greenhouse

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With greenhouses becoming more popular among backyard gardeners, it has become possible to purchase a reasonable unit for your home. A cheap greenhouse is a good investment for a relatively serious gardener, since the cost will soon pay for itself by allowing you to start plants from seed and increase the growing season from both ends. If you are the type of gardener who enjoys growing their own produce, there is an even quicker return on your investment.

Cheap greenhouses don’t have to be poorly made. With advances in technology allowing for snap together frames that are easy to assemble and light weight, sturdy little greenhouses can be easily built. The snap together design is particularly nice since you can easily add new panels if you want to expand your greenhouse later on. Erecting a small greenhouse is something that can usually be done over the course of a weekend, if you have prepared your area previously.

Since the unit itself is likely to be quite inexpensive, you can consider adding some accessories early on. A good, solid potting bench, reliable shelving and electricity are all additions that help make a greenhouse more functional and enjoyable. While electrical power should be installed by a certified electrician, almost every other amenity can be handled easily by a homeowner.

When choosing a site for your new greenhouse, find an area that is level or is easily leveled. Create a slightly raised platform upon which the house will stand to aid in drainage. Make sure that no branches or shrubs will prevent the sun from reaching the house once it is installed, and trim back anything that might obscure the light before you begin building. Once everything is ready, setting up your cheap greenhouse will be quick. Soon you will be enjoying your new gardening tool and watching the flowers bloom.

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No Room? Try a Lean-to Greenhouse!

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Have you ever thought about putting a greenhouse somewhere in your yard but just thought that you had absolutely no room for it?  Why not consider a lean-to greenhouse?  These models are much more compact in size, easy to assemble, and offer a beautiful and affordable space in which to work.  But what is a lean-to greenhouse and why is it such a great option for so many?

 

The term “lean-to” usually refers to any structure that leans or that is attached to another structure.  This is true of lean-to greenhouse; they’re designed to be attached to a wall of your home, garage, or even a tool shed.  They can be the size of a hallway or of a room itself.  Some are large enough that they can function as an additional sunroom!  Other have room enough just for a shelf and a few plants.  Usually they’re easy to snap together and use tie-downs to keep them in place.  While some lean-to greenhouse designs are very utilitarian others are very ornate and are designed specifically to fit in with the architecture and building materials of your home.  The more ornate types of lean-to greenhouse designs might include permanently attaching them to the side of your home so of course it’s important that they be as aesthetically pleasing as possible.

 

These days, people are doing whatever they can to improve and increase the value of their home, and others are looking for ways to really enjoy their home as much as possible.  When you have limited space in a backyard of course you need to make some difficult choices, but when you see the beautiful designs available for a lean-to greenhouse you may be pleasantly surprised at your options.  Using a greenhouse means that you can enjoy gardening and potted plants all year, and they make for a great excuse to get outside and get some fresh air regardless of the season.  It’s also a great chance to try organic gardening for yourself and your family. 

A lean-to greenhouse offers just enough space for many to grow vegetable plants for the family.  You can easily use organic methods for an indoor garden by using organic potting soil and plant food.  Even with a very small lean-to greenhouse you can start a compost pile in a corner of your yard or use a compost container, which is usually very small and compact.  By using organic growing methods for vegetables, you’re protecting your family from harmful pesticides and other chemicals.

 

A lean-to greenhouse is an affordable way to have a real greenhouse in even the tiniest of yards, and when funds are limited as well.  They can be very small or as large as an additional room to the house.  If you’ve been thinking about a greenhouse for your yard and just didn’t think it was an option for you, consider a lean-to greenhouse.  There are many models available so you’re sure to find something perfect for you.


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