Monday 7 March 2011

Greenhouse Progress



Since my last post on the greenhouse project, we have worked on the construction whenever we had spare time and it wasn't raining, which unfortunately wasn't as often as we would have liked.

We opened up the boxes with the greenhouse bits in and laid out all the pieces on the patio. We counted every single item and checked it off against the parts list!


The first step was to assemble the front, back and sides separately.


Then we put them together and added the roof section.


The greenhouse at this stage is very light, so we carried it carefully across the lawn to its final location, where we placed it into its base, and checked that everything was squared up and that it all fitted.

The foundation was completed with a path, gravel around the edges and we dug over the vegetable beds which will be inside.


Then we fastened everything down.


The final stage was to make up the door and window vents, and to put the glass on. This took a surprisingly long time, and we have so far completed the roof. This morning our new glass roof was covered in frost! It seems to have survived, though.

2 comments:

suse-the-slow-knitta said...

I'm very envious, I wish I had the space for a greenhouse!

MysteryKnitter said...

I sure hope it won't break under the snow. I wish you all the best with the greenhouse project.