Someone smashed the main pane on my GH

Well that's the repairs on the GH completed. Here's some before and after photos.

Before it became a greenhouse it was a pig sty. This was about 30 years ago just before I started work with a sledgehammer and crowbar, lowering the front wall, breaking and removing the 3 inch concrete roof at the back and building up the rear wall.


All the glass was reclaimed from old windows. The main wooden framework sits on heavy teak timbers that were once colliery headgear. The central pane is/was a double glazed unit. This photo was taken about 20 years ago.

Now the central pane has been replaced with twin wall polycarbonate. I've removed the two windows at each side at the front as the frames were well rotted and replaced them with hollow uPVC cladding. The wooden window frames at the side were replaced with twin wall poly carb a couple of years ago. This afternoon I found an old curtain rail just the right length and now have my builders netting shading attached to it so I can easily adjust the shading at the front.

 

It's looking good Dave. It'll probably still be standing long after we're pushing up Daisies.

 

Nice one Dave

Was that you in the pic?

 

That's our own two little piggies Zigs, and one has now got a litle piglet of her own
Time flies!!!

 

Nice one Dave

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.

 

You did a good job of the repair, it should last for years. Being a keen eyed ham, i instantly clocked the telescopic mast next to the water butt

 

Well spotted , there's a 5 band 2 element quad on top of it. There's also a Butternut HF2V visible in the background and atop the big pear tree a 30m GP though it's out of sight in the photo. There's another Tennamast in the side of the house currently supporting a 5 element 6m yagi.

 

An antenna farm is loosely connected to gardening I planted this 14 years ago and it hasnt grown an inch

 

Cant be zinc either, i guess the concrete block might have something to do with it