More work on the Greenhouse

The change in elevation between the 2 sections was about a foot deep, so we decided to reinforce it with 2X4s pounded in the ground and screwed into from each board going across the width of the building.


Against the south side where the bottom board ended I took short lengths of left over tin and pounded them down into the soil and then nailed them to the frame.

I had our bobcat guy bring a load of super select (about 2 yards ) to the greenhouse when he was working on another project.

We received some free replacement ,double glazed windows. We planned on putting them up for the winter and taking them down for the summer. I bought vinyl edging to glue around them because they had very sharp edges . When I put them in place they cracked because of the pressure. We ended up custom ordering "sliders" with screens from HOME DEPOT
which will fit perfectly into the openings!
I left the cracked windows in place until the custom windows come in.

We learned that painting on the wood preserver / stain at this time is the best. This way we did not have to worry about over painting on the tin once it was up.
Next was putting up the shell made of tin. We only had 3 sides with a little cut work around the windows. Since we were working with recycled tin (there were rusted spots), I laid out the tin and calculated what pieces to use where before we started putting the sheets up.