A few weeks ago we bought a flat pack greenhouse online which arrived with many, many, parts, dozens of nuts, bolts, wire clips and screws plus over 20 panes of toughened glass. We could have had the company come and install it for £300 but reckoned we could do it ourselves. The instruction booklet was a bit like an IKEA book with no words and many pages of diagrams. It was a poor quality black and white booklet where it was difficult see how the pieces lay on top of one another and when we went online for the more trickier bits it was simply a pdf of the exact same pages so didn’t help.
We built the frame and assembled the greenhouse without glass then had a local landscaper lad come and build a base out of railway sleepers around 6 large railway sleepers. We get high winds here over the winter months, 60+ mph is not unusual so we needed to have the greenhouse screwed down securely.
We then glazed it which went mostly okay except for a door pane which exploded in my hands as I winkled it into position. Tiny fragments, no cuts on me at all, just a mess to clean up. We ordered a replacement pane which they shipped out at no additional cost. Today I fitted the rain butt.
We built the frame and assembled the greenhouse without glass then had a local landscaper lad come and build a base out of railway sleepers around 6 large railway sleepers. We get high winds here over the winter months, 60+ mph is not unusual so we needed to have the greenhouse screwed down securely.
We then glazed it which went mostly okay except for a door pane which exploded in my hands as I winkled it into position. Tiny fragments, no cuts on me at all, just a mess to clean up. We ordered a replacement pane which they shipped out at no additional cost. Today I fitted the rain butt.