How to build a custom green house (foundation, heating, plumbing)
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Hi, I want to build a green house connected to my main house, as the picture shows. I live in Mendocino CA where there is strong ocean wind and 45 inches of rain per year, no snow. Any suggestion on how best to approach this?
Are there kits I can order and put up myself? I'm quite handy.
Hi, I want to build a green house connected to my main house, as the picture shows. I live in Mendocino CA where there is strong ocean wind and 45 inches of rain per year, no snow. Any suggestion on how best to approach this?
Are there kits I can order and put up myself? I'm quite handy.
I have this but I modified a screen room, so I already had a foundation that just needed some changes. Do you have a foundation in place? Are you comfortable putting in your own foundation?
Even tho mine is "connected" to my house, aka it shares a wall, or more correctly a wall with a huge window, we decided not to have a door from the house directly into the green house for a few reasons including issues with heating/cooling/humidity, dirt, leaking (and they all eventually leak) etc. so it opens into the other half of our screen porch.
You will also want to make sure you run plumbing and electric or somebody qualified to do so. There are many kits, but getting the top glass panels, and motor for the vents was quite a production even for the crew we hired.
consider polycarbonate for your panels, much lighter (and stronger) than glass which will result in an easier frame assembly/construction. The downside is that the translucency of the panels will likely degrade but not for ten years or more and replacing of a few of the key panels could be easily accomplished.
I've seen suppliers sell both "kits" as well as the framing stock that would allow a more customized design application that could be tailored exactly to your specific dimensions.
I envision something like the below, except I like the top to be a bit flatter for aesthetic reason.
My greenhouse needs to be glass and sturdy, and with windows, for three reasons:
1. We have a nice view beyond the glass wall, so we want to preserve that.
2. This is a small vacation house, only 750 sqft; this will create outdoor living space (thus the windows).
3. During winter rain storms this will create some dry outdoor space.
This is the edge of our house. I want the greenhouse to be attached to the edge of the roof, come out to cover the entire deck, plus perhaps 5-7' of the soil space for some indoor growing.
So, who sells glass and frame materials (no frill, just strong and as inexpensive as possible) that are flexible enough to create this customized greenhouse? Your views and thoughts on the project is also welcome.
Try searching on "solarium" instead of greenhouse.
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