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A small Friday job in Holywell

31/1/2020

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A small job just to finish off this week - adding a brick-sided cold frame to a greenhouse I built last summer.

This greenhouse is only down the road from me so it's easy enough to do this as a small job.

My customer is really enjoying the greenhouse but thought a cold frame will be a really useful addition.  
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These foundations are a bit excessive for such a small wall but why not.  I'm matching in with the foundations I laid for the main greenhouse and I can continue the brickwork courses through as well.  

There are 2 courses of engineering brick and two of the facing bricks.  You don't see that much of this brickwork from the outside but it allows a nice deep space inside the cold frame,
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I'll build the frame and opening windows now and return to fit those shortly.
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A "Richard" in North Yorkshire

29/1/2020

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I battled over the Pennines into North Yorkshire this week - the traffic slowed to 15mph in some parts due to snowfall.

However, I arrived into sunshine and mostly calm weather in North Yorkshire.

This greenhouse is the "Richard" - the smallest greenhouse I do.  It's quite popular where space is limited or if used for limited growing/potting up or housing just a few choice plants.  However, it's also very tall so you get quite a lot of vertical space.
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My customers were very keen to use local reclaimed bricks for the base so on the first day I travelled to the salvage yard with my customer and we chose the best bricks we could find (after a bit of sifting and sorting through).

For the floor we re-used some beautiful old quarry tiles my customer has had for many years - and we had just the right amount for the floor.  I laid them on a full 3" bed of dry mixed sharp sand / cement and I'll brush through the joints with kiln dried sand when I come back here in a couple of weeks.
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"Blog of 2 Gardens" feature

21/1/2020

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blogoftwogardens.com/2020/01/21/greenhouse-delight/
So chuffed to appear in Phao's excellent "blog of two gardens" this week.  I built her greenhouse a couple of years ago and she recently came across a photo from that time.  She looks very pleased.
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Edinburgh - 2nd visit

17/1/2020

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The wind blasted throughout the UK this week and my journey up was very slow.  I was grateful that the van was heavily loaded to hold it down against the wind.

The greenhouse faces the Firth of Forth - you can see the ridge pointing directly out to the sea.

These are VERY tough greenhouses ready for whatever the weather wants to throw at it  - 4mm toughened glass held in rebated and jointed timber.  I also added a central A-frame of 4x2 timber with a horizontal tie jointed in and further horizontal supports beneath all rafters.  This will help greenhouse cope with potential snow loads.

All the windows and doors are constructed with traditional mortice and tennoned joints giving them strength and stability.
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Wonderful message from my customer who is enjoying the greenhouse so much he's almost moved in.

"Hey Robin - great time seeing you last week,  Fantastic job,  Haven't slept in it you, but getting close to."
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