I fitted the window from the other green house to ours, so that it would auto-open based on the internal temperature. I had to get a piece of the ridge extrusion as that is the other half of the hinge. I shall now refit the old window in another place as a manual alternative. I also managed to cut the pane of glass or the back center bit that matches to the two roof angles in the middle. I traced out on some card the green house roof angle, then just by eye scored the glass and it broke perfectly.
I need to cut some of the glass from the green house that I picked up the other day (post here https://bhhh.co.uk/another-green-house/). So I got myself a glass cutter, scorer thing from Screwfix. Then I proceeded to break a small pain of glass until I learned to score it properly. This was some better results as I learned what I was doing. I found that if the score line is really nice with no breaks in it, and it makes that sound like a good weld bead going in, then it’ll break both easily and really nicely. If it’s hard to break then it’s going to break anywhere but on the line.
I decided that new glass was too expensive and second hand glass wasn’t much cheaper. Whereas entire second hand green houses are quite cheap by comparison. So we picked up an 8ft x 8ft green house from a place near Weymouth. I was worried that the glass wasn’t going to be right and having not checked this could have been a rather sorry story. But 2 hours of taking down and another hour loading it all onto the land rover and then after a careful drive home, I was pleasently surprised to find the glass an exact match. Even though this other green house was a far higher quality item, the aluminium profiles are far superior. Much more ridged. I was able to complete our green house, bar one pane that requires cutting, and for that I will need a glass cutter /scorer thing. Dad said he’s never had any […]
Got the green house back home today and also picked up two loads of paving slabs from within the village. We carried the green house home, out down the road through Cattistock and were luck enough not to meet a car. The Land Rover seemed well down on the springs. As you might be able to make out of the tape measure, it was about 3.5″ of difference between loaded and unloaded.
We got offered a green house the other, so today I set about removing the glass. It’s quite time consuming unclipping and removing pains of glass that are grown in with moss over many years. I might try just carrying the frame home in one complete piece.
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