Turning a bedframe into a coldframe

...or a greenhouse. Not exactly sure what you would call it. The progress so far:









To do list:

remove metal rail bits
Make shelf removable
Screw side supports
cut plastic sheeting
buy hinges
make 2 x doors
make air-vent-roof-bit-lid

maybe varnish green or paint white
maybe remove castors, maybe not

What do you think?

 

Thank You. I threw the other one before I realised what I could make. I could've had two!!!

I was originally tempted to get some rigid perspex and cut to shape. However, my old man told me the best he could find was £19 for 100x50mm of 3mm. No chance!

 

It just so happens I have a bed frame out the front that was waiting to go to the tip......hmmmmm was, maybe not now, what a great idea

 

Nice one! Would to be good see what someone else can do too! I wish I'd kept the pullout draws from the bedframe though, I could have used the metal rails to make proper slidey doors for the coldframe!

 

I made a homemade cold frame about 3 years ago and used the large cell bubble wrap and its worked a treat, still in use too

 

Why didn't I think of that?! I'm currently building myself a cold frame but am having to build the frames for the two windows at the moment, then the carcus. If only I could get hold of an old bed and rip it to shreds I would have been half way there by now!

What are you going to glaze it with?

 

@nFrost , perspex is very expensive . You could try 10mm Corotherm its the material they use for conservatory roofs . It is also used in greenhouses and coldframes . Apparently they also make a 4mm size . You will lose a little of the light level through polyarbon as opposed to glass , but it won't make any real difference.

http://www.diy.com/nav/build/buildi...et-H-1220-W-610-D-4mm-12848976?skuId=13359682

 

Just clear plastic sheeting for now, the stuff I'm currently using to warm the veg patch. Would like something rigid however.

10mm? That's a bit thick isn't it? Unless I'm reading that wrong. Thanks for that info Harry.

 

Any idea how I can remove these castors please?



I think I might just get the hammer out.

 

@nFrost the link is for 4mm thick polycarb.
To remove the wheels I would use a 25mm cold chisel and lump hammer , you can get the stud out with a pair of mole grips. ( try and borrow the above , as you really won't need these tools that often. )

 

You never know when they'll come in handy

 

True Ziggy , lump hammers are always useful , and you never know when you will need to get to grips with a Mole
PS : Why do they call cold chisels , cold chisels ? Is it that your are not shaping a hot forging ?

 

They're used to cut cold metal as opposed to hot metal, so yes