hedgerow pete
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The allotment green house was made from pallet timber imported from Italy to the new Queen Elizabeth hospital in Birmingham. It was then covered with a plastic sheet called Monflex, its a hairy builders scaffolding plastic sheet with fibre reinforcements in it and is well up for being nailed to the outside of a timber frame.
The downside is that it only lasts a year and after that unless i am working on a site let a lone on a site with spare monoflex it was time to change the covering.
So being a womble we found these instead, they are the off cuts from the plastic sheets from peole conservatories. I have found a workshop where they make them and i have been raiding the bins again, I can get 40 p[ieces on my custom made flat wheel barrow. tied on we all go for a walk back to the allotment.
They are fixed to the timber frame with 50 mm screws and penny washers. I will need to buy some more penny washers soon but I have loads of 50mm screws.
The sheets are triple wall poly carb sheets. The thickness varie from 18mm to 36 mm to each side is set to a single thinkness 25mm and 18mm on the walls and 36mm on the roof.
The door even got covered with them too, the roof part is very messy for now but they will get cut back once i have enough pieces to do the roof.
So from battered this
through this
to this end finished
the hardest part is getting the old sheets ripped off and the frame cleaned down of nails. when i can afford it i will have to work out a way to replace the legs that are starting to rot in the ground.
The downside is that it only lasts a year and after that unless i am working on a site let a lone on a site with spare monoflex it was time to change the covering.
So being a womble we found these instead, they are the off cuts from the plastic sheets from peole conservatories. I have found a workshop where they make them and i have been raiding the bins again, I can get 40 p[ieces on my custom made flat wheel barrow. tied on we all go for a walk back to the allotment.
They are fixed to the timber frame with 50 mm screws and penny washers. I will need to buy some more penny washers soon but I have loads of 50mm screws.
The sheets are triple wall poly carb sheets. The thickness varie from 18mm to 36 mm to each side is set to a single thinkness 25mm and 18mm on the walls and 36mm on the roof.
The door even got covered with them too, the roof part is very messy for now but they will get cut back once i have enough pieces to do the roof.
So from battered this
through this
to this end finished
the hardest part is getting the old sheets ripped off and the frame cleaned down of nails. when i can afford it i will have to work out a way to replace the legs that are starting to rot in the ground.
