Adrian's Blog
Here we put greenhouses or projects that we have installed ourselves, anything greenhouse related that we feel might be of interest to you.
All photo's and content are our own and taken by ourselves, so please excuse the camera work and any discrepancies in advance.
All of our greenhouses for sale are chosen for their build quality in relation to their price, they offer what i think to be the best value on the market. I get asked to sell other manufacturers but i will not allow anything to be sold that i would not buy myself. If we don't sell a particular building it is usually down to one of two things, either we feel it is over priced or more commonly not of a good enough quality.
April 2012
Halls 8x10 Aluminium Supreme
 | Of all our greenhouses for sale this is the only model that features a curved eave, i think the 8ft wide model as this one is, has had some good improvements over the years. When i installed my first one roughly about 12 years ago i thought it lacked the strength of the straight roofed Magnum, this is not the case now though and the the Halls Supreme greenhouse doesn't just look great...it feels solid and substantial with it.
There is a quality feel about these greenhouses, and some really heavy duty brace bars down the length add to the strength, along with other improvements over the years such as roof braces and improved acrylic with new heavy duty strips.
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 | This is a silver aluminium 8x10, built on to the customers own base (which they expanded an existing old concrete slab).
Spacious double doors and with long pane toughened glass as standard, this greenhouse really does the job and looks great too!
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March 2012
Halls 6x6 Green Popular with Slab and Shingle Base
This is a good example of an slab and shingle base, which I levelled and then installed the greenhouse.
I did this job myself, the location was very peaceful out in a very rural location, with some lovely spring weather, it's job's like these that reminds me of why i enjoy my work!
This customer wanted an inside base laid, after levelling the manufacturers base and fixing to the ground, i then put down a heavy duty membrane. The path down the middle is 3 decent utility 2ftx2ft slabs laid on to sharp sand, pea shingle is then poured in and raked level.
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The finished greenhouse in forest green with Horticultural glass. The green paintwork was a good choice and blended in well with this setting.
The slab and shingle base is a good cost effective answer to people who don't want to be standing on earth. Another advantage is that the shingle lets any water/spills soak away without leaving standing water puddles!
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February 2012
10 x 20 Green Monarch Installed at a Local Secondary School
Needing a large greenhouse for a replacement old greenhouse that had seen better days, we supplied this school with a 10x20 Eden Monarch which is the largest of our range. The featured building is in powder coated green with long pane toughened glass. We also supplied and installed 5 Growhouse cold frames which i will talk about another day (i was very impressed with these!)
This is towards the end of the first day, the basic frame is up and as you can see from how Dominic is dressed this is one extremely cold February day, in fact the temperature was -6 when i left to pick Dom up and didn't get above 1 degree all day!
You have to get used to working in all weathers in our trade, but it still numbs the fingers handling freezing metal whilst doing fiddly nut and bolt work (i have yet to find a warm pair of gloves that allow enough dexterity in the fingers)
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Below is the scene we came in to on our last day, as you can see it snowed over night. We had an idea that it would, the forecast said it was very likely so before we went home the night before we made sure all remaining parts were inside the greenhouse.
Looks pretty but not the best conditions for installing a greenhouse.
You can see that the doors are inside the greenhouse, they took me longer than expected to make up the day before(allow plenty of time for these). Because of this we purposely didn't glaze the back section, it is not ideal to leave a greenhouse without finishing the glazing but if you do make sure that there is a flow through of air available.
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Below is the finished article, you can see that the glass is getting misted. this is because we made use of the massive floor area and put together the 5 cedar cold frames inside, every little comfort helps when working in these conditions!
Of all the greenhouses for sale we have this is our largest aluminium building we offer, i think it offers great value for money when compared to most of its competition, plenty of windows and a decent door entrance.
The Eden Monarch comes with an integral base with no base at the door entrance, this is great for wheelbarrows and wheelchairs etc, but does mean this really needs to sit on a paved/concrete base, this does not have to be the whole floor area as this one is, a surround would be fine.
February 2012
Growhouse Cedar Cold Frames
Time to quickly say a bit about these excellent cold frames that we supplied with the above Eden Monarch greenhouse. The School had ordered 5 of these to go down the length of the greenhouse.
As we have only recently (mid 2011) started selling Growhouse greenhouses and cold frames, i was looking forward to seeing what these were like for assembly, this was the first chance we have had to actually put one up as they are usually sold flat pack delivered. Having had good feedback from customers i was expecting them to be easy and i was not disappointed.
The packaging was excellent, when you open the boxes you can see straight away that there is not alot to do to put these together.
When you get the sections out of the box, you first screw the 4 sides together using 8 screws, all the holes are pre-drilled for ease of construction. Next the 2 stay bars are attached with a long bolt and a wing nut, really clever simple design that does the job nicely.
The lid is then screwed on using 2 robust hinges, again with holes already drilled, the lid is pre glazed with toughened glass.
As simple as that, these cold frames ooze quality and with a power drill i could put one of these together in about 20 easy minutes. |  |
 | The cedar stay bars which hold the lid are a simple design but they work. You can have the lid open at 2 positions as shown in these 2 photo's.
Made of the finest cedar wood these smell great!
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This is what they looked like when we had finished, 5 in a row down the outside of the greenhouse. If you are wondering what the pipe and metal stands are in front of the cold frames, that is for an electric box that the electrician was coming to fit the day after.
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