moving my green house

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    i have to move my green house it is a 6 x 8 poly carb' thankfully we only have to move it from next door ( yes we have bought the house next door and it seemed like a good idea at the time ) unfortunatly it is easier said than done as i live on a hill and my garden is 5 foot lower than my other house, we have also lost some of the roof panes in the storms.

    do you think if i attach a wooden brace across the corners it will prevent it twisting to much and therefore be able it to be lifted over the fence/wall and down ?
     
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      No...........:lunapic 130165696578242 5:
       
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        helpful answers on a post card please :snork:
         
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          A wooden brace around all the sides might help, CK, but you'll need some fit, strong people to move it. The brace would have to be really rigid to help though........I've also written it down and it's in the post.:snork:
           
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            I've moved my 8X8 greenhouse a couple of times within my garden, if you can get enough willing helpers it should be easy. Mine is glass so even with four of us I've had to lighten it by removing panes. Then it flexs with the glass removed so we had to move it gently. Your's should be much lighter being polycarbonate. Maybe if you replace the missing panels it will stiffen it up, have you tried lifting it already? You should get an idea of whether you need to brace it by lifting a corner.

            Can you remove a panel from the fence?
             
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              How about siliconing the panes in first, that'd make it really rigid and storm proof at the same time:)
               
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                Save your pain and just disassemble it and re-build next door. One stumble, trip, back twinge etc will trash the greenhouse in a second and that's IF the bracing works.
                Better to move it in sections rather than the whole thing at once. If you do choose to move it all in one go, please have someone film it for us...
                 
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                  thanks JWK
                  its the roof panels that are out, all of the sides are in tact i was thinking that a missing roof sheet would give us somewhere to be held on as we lower it down in to this garden, might try it with out and see if we need to put it back before moving,
                  when it was put up it was fairly ridgid but because of the hill we live on i took the precaution of bolting it to the supporting wall so that the wind didnt take ( it happened to a neighbours shed !) so again i will have to test before attempting

                  even if we take out the fence panels the posts are cemented in and i would still have a 3 foot drop due to a wall and height difference, i will take some pics later, to show what i mean
                   
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                    i hadnt thought of that thanks Ziggy
                     
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                      Common, sadly, with Polycarb's - Silicon is the answer to that, as Ziggy said. Makes them a nightmare to get out, if you ever have to move the greenhouse - good job you didn't do it before and do NOT buy next-door-but-one in future :heehee:
                       
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                        fencing.jpg

                        this is the fencing that the green house needs to come over and down

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                        as you can see there are roof panels missing

                        even with the fence panels removed we would still have to lift over the posts
                         
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                        Looking at that photo I'll lay money on that needing Disassemble and Reassemble, rather than doing a barrel-roll over the fence :) The Trampoline might be one way over though? :heehee:
                         
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                          not what i was hoping to hear :cry3::gaah:
                           
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                            If you can't get enough helpers then you will have to dismantle by the looks of your situation. You only need to dismantle big sections, like the ends & sides which should be easily lifted over the fence. It will save completely taking it all apart.
                             
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                              Do the poly-carb panels come out easily?
                               
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