Choosing a greenhouse advice

A scorpion saw fitted with a metal cutting blade can really useful for cutting connecting bolts, screws & nails. Only £29.74 from Robert Dyas on a Thursday including a 15% discount for presenting a Telegraph Subscribers card, and metal cutting blades are £5.40 from ebay.

 

I have a reciprocating saw, which may be the same thing - marvellous piece of kit and has some great blades that will cut either wood or metal, which I found useful de-constructing woorden structures - where I had no idea what I would actually encounter when slicing a wooden post! But in practice, on the pergola de-construct, the previous owner had bought a Proper Job and the bolts were stainless or somesuch which weren't yielding to a metal-blade - hence, on that occasion, Mr Big Angle Grinder

 

The problem, @shiney, with only owning a hammer is that all your problems are Nails

 

Hi
I recently bought a 6X6 and erected it last weekend, I agree with the advice to get the biggest that you can but like you my plot is only good for the smaller end.
After lots of research I went for an Elite because of a) good reports, b) they include a built in base and c) the cost.
I can honestly say that the instructions are excellent and the whole structure and glazing was so easy to do.
I considered the second hand route but frankly I would have been buying a lot of work.
Hope this helps
Lykie

 

I am prepared for this because I am cash-poor but time-rich, as they say. Bit worried a second hand one would cost my sanity as well though.

 

I could get those in the Fiesta, I reckon. I'd be worried about the glass, though. Did the gable ends break down into those sizes? My impression is that they get sent whole, requiring a large van to carry them.
I've seen a gorgeous one on ebay and my fingers are just itching to bid but common sense is sadly over-ruling me. It will probably be sold by the time I've got my act sorted.

 

Ive just bought my second greenhouse from www.greenhousepeople.co.uk - happy to recommend them, no problems with delivery etc. I have a long high wall so Ive been buying the lean-too type to make the most of the space.

I did opt for the Bar Capping option, which works well & is a lot less fiddly than the springy-metal clips for holding the glass in. They also shipped the springy-metal clips in the box of bits, so if anyone wants a bag PM me & its yours.

 

Groan - a red cedar Hall's greenhouse went for £16 on ebay last night. Probably well over £500 to buy new. Too far away for me to fetch and not possible to fold it down into the Fiesta, sadly.

 

No, all interesting, but @Kristen, I really, really would like to know how you got a 12' ridge strut (and the eaves struts and the base side struts) into your people carrier.

I've been checking out if 10' struts will go in the Fiesta, and they might, if they can be settled into the footwell. There's is no chance that the boot lid will close over them, though, so I'd be doing a 50 mile journey with it tied down.

Also, @Kristen, does this
look like an Eden to you?

 

Sticking out the tail, a bit, with the tailgate tied down with a bit of rope. Back then I had a Renault Grande Espace which was fairly cavernous - the Chrysler Grand Voyager we had before that was huge, by comparison, and the current Seat Alhambra is tiny - particularly the Height clearance.

Yes, it does, particularly the flat panels on the doors. But I've not see the bottom skirting panels before, so that mean that it is a different model / make (as the uprights include those panels, so either are longer-than-normal or a different make)

Either way, it does look similarly "robust" to an old Eden type - newer ones seem to use a lot less Aluminium, and feel more "flimsy" by comparison.