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I managed to go a whole winter not break a single pane and then loose 3 all in one go (staging gave way). Last year I replaced 2 panes with clear plastic and while it does flex a lot more in the wind its secured very well with the standard M clips. I am considering this option again but I just wondered if anyone else has tried this?
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I am a fan of traditional glass. I have found that all plastics eventally go opaque and brittle over time and having used both a plastic greenhouse and glass one I would say that glass beats plastic hands down for crop quality. Its only downside is as you so rightly point out is that it breaks. -
Plastic v glass
As pigletwillie says plastics all seem to go opaque and brittle, though I have one exception, so far. Some vandals donated a sheet of plastic from a phonebox over our site fence, I adopted it and it seems to be one of the vandal-proof plastics
, they managed to get it out of the phonebox without damage. However I do not see a way of getting more without turning vandal myself
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Slightly off-topic , but flexible plastic sheeting is a no no on our site. I replaced the opaque and tattered top of my wooden coldframe with new shiney clear plastic membrane and with two days the crows had walked and pecked it to shreds, I saw them doing it the second day.
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