Which Greenhouse would you recommend?

**polc1410** · 03-04-2013, 05:45 PM

They always look sturdier on level ground, with no wind, in the shop! They are affectionately known as bloways for a reason round the vine...

The advice round here seems to be get as big as you can afford and have space for. Budget in an automatic opener.

The Aluminium one looks small.

You need to look at the bases - they'll want attached to a flat & solid base not an uneven allotment plot.

Calum

**MarkHackwell** · 03-04-2013, 05:48 PM

Originally posted by polc1410 View Post

They always look sturdier on level ground, with no wind, in the shop! They are affectionately known as bloways for a reason round the vine...

The advice round here seems to be get as big as you can afford and have space for. Budget in an automatic opener.

The Aluminium one looks small.

You need to look at the bases - they'll want attached to a flat & solid base not an uneven allotment plot.

Calum

They both come with bases

**rustylady** · 03-04-2013, 06:01 PM

Sorry, but the two you have posted links to will also blow away. You need to look at anchoring your current one properly. Anything else you may buy will also need to be fixed securely.

I notice that the skirts are loose - the wind will get under these and lift the whole thing. They need to be either buried or anchored with something heavy.

**rustylady** · 03-04-2013, 06:03 PM

Originally posted by MarkHackwell View Post

They both come with bases

But the bases need to be fixed to something. The greenhouses themselves are very light.

**MarkHackwell** · 03-04-2013, 06:26 PM

Yeah that's true. The other problem I have is I'm worried the cover will go the way the poly tunnel cover has gone which is the little windows fall out and I don't want to keep having to replace it. Soo was thinking of getting a polycarbonate as it will be just over the hedge from a park and afraid if it was class someone might smash it. I would be willing to dig to put a base in as longs as I knew the greenhouse would last.

**Two_Sheds** · 04-04-2013, 09:39 AM

Do you have a less-windy spot you can put it in?

And what is your budget?

**MarkHackwell** · 04-04-2013, 10:05 AM

I could move it back a little if it was the small greenhouse like the first link so it's by the hedge. And as little as possible a decent greenhouse that I can use year round.

**Two_Sheds** · 04-04-2013, 10:27 AM

Originally posted by MarkHackwell View Post

a decent greenhouse that I can use year round.

Not a blowaway then.

These are the best. See the fellas sat in the RH corner? That's not 'shopped.
It's a "forever" purchase though

Maybe 2nd hand? Put flyers in people's letterboxes, offering to take away their old one?

**Mikey** · 04-04-2013, 10:49 AM

The best greenhouse is a free greenhouse, try any of the freecycle site or ebay and pick yourself up a bargain. Then get any replacement parts you need whether that be 2ft x 2ft 3mm glass panes or some clips etc and you will have a much better product for less than you are looking at there.

My greenhouse is sat on and secured into concrete blocks which I use as a perimeter bed, there's no real footing. Its strong and doesn't move it cost me no more than �70 quid all in. The greenhouse was free the replacement panes, extra clips and makeshift door runner and concrete blocks and some sand and cement was my only cost.

Since putting it in the location shown in the image, I have moved it to a new spot and reused all the blocks.

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**SarzWix** · 04-04-2013, 11:06 AM

Lots of people will pooh-pooh, but I still think a Norfolk Standard is a good thing for an allotment greenhouse. They are a 'mare to construct, but the Standard method of covering, with polythene on a roll which you bury in a trench on either side, keeps the whole thing solid and it won't be broken with stones thrown at it. Have a look at the photos in the album 'Bottom plot' in the albums in my profile.

Don't be mistaken into looking at the 'Ultimate' models on the Norfolk website though, you'd spend most of your time putting the polycarb back in and they aren't so easily anchored.

**MarkHackwell** · 06-04-2013, 07:09 PM

Originally posted by SarzWix View Post

Lots of people will pooh-pooh, but I still think a Norfolk Standard is a good thing for an allotment greenhouse. They are a 'mare to construct, but the Standard method of covering, with polythene on a roll which you bury in a trench on either side, keeps the whole thing solid and it won't be broken with stones thrown at it. Have a look at the photos in the album 'Bottom plot' in the albums in my profile.

Don't be mistaken into looking at the 'Ultimate' models on the Norfolk website though, you'd spend most of your time putting the polycarb back in and they aren't so easily anchored.

is that what sort of greenhouse you have?

and i couldnt find the album on your blog

**SarzWix** · 06-04-2013, 07:47 PM

Click on my user-name, then click View Profile. Then scroll down, looking on the left-hand side for Photo Albums. Click on 'View More' (or something similar) then find the album called 'Bottom Plot'

Yes, I had 2 for a while, a 6x12 on the allotment and a 6x4 at home. I gave the 6x12 away when I got the polytunnel, it was 5 years old then, and had to have the cover replaced after moving it. The 6x4 is coming up 7 and still has the same cover with a few repairs done this year.

**Two_Sheds** · 07-04-2013, 12:37 AM

Originally posted by SarzWix View Post

find the album called 'Bottom Plot'

this one?

**MarkHackwell** · 07-04-2013, 09:09 AM

Looks ideal for what i want

Did it have a window in it by any chance or would i just open the door for ventilation?

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