Post by scrumpy on Feb 10, 2011 11:06:20 GMT
Apologies for not very good photos and not very clean greenhouse. I need to get the hoover out by the looks
Anyway,i haven't got a very big greenhouse....8 foot 6 by the same, and i needed to be able to get as much staging space as possible, a permanent heated bed, and to be able to grow plenty of toms and cucumbers in the summer. The problem was the staging would have to be removed, stored, etc, a right pain.
So i decided to make my own.
What i did was get 2" by 2" timber, cut it to length and fitted it around the greenhouse ( call it a batten) to a height of 30 inches from the base, the idea being i could then make the staging and attach it to the batten as shown, so that all you did was lift it up when you needed it for plants, and lower it when you wanted the space for the toms etc.
To secure the timber i attached right angled brackets ( about 2" ) to the aluminium down channels, then screwed the wood into this. To make it more secure, i held it up with 2x2 running from the batten to the base of the greenhouse.
It was then a question of making 3 lots of staging out of the same 2x2, in various lengths and widths ,and attaching to the battens with hinges, so that you ended up with staging on 3 sides of the greenhouse that fitted nicely to each other. Then i secured each staging to each other with 5 " carriage bolts, which made everything really secure.
It was then a question of doing the same for the top shelving. I set the batten 18" above the lower one, made the shelving to that width, secured it as before as shown.
So after all of that i ended up with about 28" wide staging running 3 sides of the greenhouse, at a height of about 30" from the floor, and about 16" wide staging running 3 sides around the top of the greenhouse. The odd bit of string helped secure the top staging, the odd piece of 2x2 helped hold up the bottom staging. And everything folded back nicely.
The staging was covered with thin twin wall polycarbonate to provide a solid surface,and to let light through, which in summer is covered with capillary matting so that watering is made easy. Had the staging in place for many many years with no problems.
And that's it, apart from the cleaning
Anyway,i haven't got a very big greenhouse....8 foot 6 by the same, and i needed to be able to get as much staging space as possible, a permanent heated bed, and to be able to grow plenty of toms and cucumbers in the summer. The problem was the staging would have to be removed, stored, etc, a right pain.
So i decided to make my own.
What i did was get 2" by 2" timber, cut it to length and fitted it around the greenhouse ( call it a batten) to a height of 30 inches from the base, the idea being i could then make the staging and attach it to the batten as shown, so that all you did was lift it up when you needed it for plants, and lower it when you wanted the space for the toms etc.
To secure the timber i attached right angled brackets ( about 2" ) to the aluminium down channels, then screwed the wood into this. To make it more secure, i held it up with 2x2 running from the batten to the base of the greenhouse.
It was then a question of making 3 lots of staging out of the same 2x2, in various lengths and widths ,and attaching to the battens with hinges, so that you ended up with staging on 3 sides of the greenhouse that fitted nicely to each other. Then i secured each staging to each other with 5 " carriage bolts, which made everything really secure.
It was then a question of doing the same for the top shelving. I set the batten 18" above the lower one, made the shelving to that width, secured it as before as shown.
So after all of that i ended up with about 28" wide staging running 3 sides of the greenhouse, at a height of about 30" from the floor, and about 16" wide staging running 3 sides around the top of the greenhouse. The odd bit of string helped secure the top staging, the odd piece of 2x2 helped hold up the bottom staging. And everything folded back nicely.
The staging was covered with thin twin wall polycarbonate to provide a solid surface,and to let light through, which in summer is covered with capillary matting so that watering is made easy. Had the staging in place for many many years with no problems.
And that's it, apart from the cleaning