DIY polycarbonate greenhouse

What can be more useful than vegetables and fruits grown in their own area? Only in this way can you be sure of the environmental friendliness of the gifts of mother nature, their absolute safety and benefits. But in order for the painstaking work of growing the most delicious vegetables to be crowned with success, it is necessary to create a favorable environment. In this summer residents, greenhouses help to harvest almost all year round. It is also pleasing that new, having a lot of advantages, are replaced by traditional materials for the manufacture of greenhouses. The category of such innovations belongs to polycarbonate, which is increasingly used for the construction of cozy houses for plants.

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Features of the material

Winter greenhouses from polycarbonate won the favor of many summer residents. Meanwhile, not every owner of suburban land fully understands what kind of material it is and what it consists of.

Polycarbonate consists of honeycombs filled with air, helping to retain precious heat. The sheet is easily cut by an electrician, but if there was no one at hand, you can use large reinforced scissors.

It is easy to work with the material with the material, glue, weld it together. The main operational characteristics, which determined incredible popularity, include excellent light -production, lightness, flexibility, high temperature range (from -50 to +120) and impeccable thermal insulation properties.

Polycarbonate greenhouses: Advantages

If you compare the greenhouses made of polycarbonate with traditional glasses of glass and plastic film, it is important to note one of the most important advantages of durability. Having built such a building once, you can forget about the problems for decades. The second advantage of the simplicity of installation. The installation of a polycarbonate greenhouse can be carried out independently without resorting to the help of specialists.

You can choose any project and easily give the dream the desired shape. The material is plastic and provides unlimited freedom when working. You can equip the construction with windows, partitions and create comfortable conditions not only for plant life, but also for the work of summer residents. But this is not the most important thing. Polycarbonate greenhouses have different prices. Depending on the starting raw materials, this indicator may vary from 6 to 20 thousand rubles. Everyone will be able to choose the optimal solution for themselves depending on financial freedom.

How to build a polycarbonate greenhouse?

The manufacture of a polycarbonate greenhouse can be sold in different ways, but two of the pipes and a galvanized profile are the most popular. Consider these technologies in stages.

Greenhouse from pipes

The basis of the foundation is the plan of the future greenhouse, from which the construction begins. Drawings of a polycarbonate greenhouse starting point that helps, giving the desired graphic image, plan the order of manufacture.

1. Preparation of sheets. Polycarbonate sheets are standard: 12 m long and 2.10 m wide. And this is another plus. If you want to build a greenhouse made of polycarbonate in size 3.5 m in width, then the roof can be built from a solid sheet. To protect the material from dust, dirt and moisture, which deprive the construction of transparency, the edges are covered with a plastic profile of the P-shaped shape.
2. Installation of the base. Next, marking with a cord and pegs should be made. And then make holes with a garden drill 1.2 m depth (4 holes along the length of the room and 2 from the ends). Asbestos -cement pipes are cut into pieces of 1.3 m long and installed in grooves produced. The cracks are covered with sand and carefully compacted. Equinimed bars are cut into the same segments 1.5 lengths. One end is rounded to the diameter, equal to the diameter of asbestos -cement pipes.

3. Construction of walls. The assembly of a polycarbonate greenhouse switches to another, extremely important level of wall construction. Pillars are processed with protective impregnation and installed in pipes. From the tanned bars, it is necessary to make a rectangular frame fixed in the lower part of the supporting pillars. Among other things, a rafter skeleton is erased for the roof, on which the protective film is laid.
4. Installation of polycarbonate. Along the perimeter of the lower part, ribbons made of galvanized iron are nailed 25 cm wide. For cutting, you can use scissors for metal. The ribbons should block each other by 6 cm. After that, the side walls of the greenhouses are sewn with polycarbonate. For this, holes are drilled in the sheets, polycarbonate is cut in accordance with the size of the roof and screwed with self -tapping screws to the rafters.
For the roof, tapes are also needed. For the skate. Only now the width should be no more than 15 cm. However, you can do with a ready -made skate of plastic purchased in the store. Next, the end walls are sewn, openings for doors are left.

5. Production of the door. The boards prepared in advance should be dissolved in half with a saw and make the doors out of them. Scrint reliable loops to them. The door leaf is laid on a sheet of polycarbonate, which is cut, and then screwed to the door. Do not forget to equip the door with handles, constipation and hooks. DIY polycarbonate greenhouse is ready!

Glorious profile greenhouse

The base is a sheet of 2.10 m wide and 6 m long. The most important part of the building is assembled from a galvanized profile.
1. Polycarbonate is cut by an electrician. Further on the panels (at least 50 mm from the edge), holes are made and the frame is fixed with self -tapping screws to the foundation.

2. Polycarbonate is located for convenience along the greenhouse. Please note that it is attached by self -tapping screws equipped with a press. For lateral walls, it is better to purchase sheets with a thickness of 5 mm. For the construction of a greenhouse from polycarbonate, you will need 4 sheets indicated sizes. Two sheets are cut in half. One is used in finished form (for a vertical wall). You can use silicone sealant or special profile. As a result, if you do not take into account the base, the height of the structure will be 3.5 meters. In such a greenhouse, it is convenient to cultivate tomatoes and cucumbers, hanging them into nets.
3. The back wall in our case will be deaf. She is broken by plywood. It is also recommended to insulate it. The outer side is protected by waterproof material, the internal is painted with moisture -resistant with non -toxic paint.

4. The entrance is made from the end. It is more convenient to use the cart. The door can be made from an ordinary wooden block. The greenhouse is good in that, if necessary (harvesting or repairing), you can easily remove any part of it. Ready! Now you know how to make a greenhouse from polycarbonate and a galvanized profile.

Councils of specialists

if the project provides for the presence of ridge windows, then worry about calculating the snow load;
when choosing polycarbonate, choose samples that protect against exposure to ultraviolet rays;
through the ventilation thoroughly, because The lack of fresh air affects not only the pollination process, but also contributes to the appearance of insect pests;

for fasteners, drilling arcs of the frame is not recommended. This leads to the emergence of foci of corrosion. It is better to use special brackets;
mount polycarbonate panels so that water drains over them. Professionals advise making drain holes on the lower lining.

If you decide to equip a corner for garden experiments and growing healthy and delicious vegetables in the country, then the solution was found. Wear resistance, low weight, ease of installation and acceptable cost of greenhouses from polycarbonate advantages that need to be used!