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Stony Ground in Bristol

21/2/2015

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The ground looked quite level but I did need to step the foundations and add a few extra courses of brick at one end, and then level off the interior.   The ground is a mixture of shale, clay and rocks and the owners have established a large healthy garden.  The old aluminium greenhouse was well used and I’m really excited to know the new one is going to such keen and competent gardeners.
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Most of us come across a few rocks and stones when digging over the ground - but I think someone tried to bury an old house here!  This pile of rocks came from just digging out the trench for the foundation!

Luckily, they’ll come in handy elsewhere in the garden (rockery - or a new wall perhaps).

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The weather was great for the first couple of days but I’d heard reports of a major storm coming on the final day so I was determined to get all the brick laying done in the good weather.  I worked until 10:30 pm on the Wednesday night but slept well knowing I could get it all finished whatever comes down on the final day.
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'The gazeebo was necessary - the rain lashed down all day and turned the area into a mud bath on the final day. 

Luckily I only had some flagstones to lay and the cold frame walls and I used the gazeebo to cover over the area as I worked.

  

The mud made it chest high on this job!

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it

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Massive Greenhouse to fit existing walls

14/2/2015

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To design and build a greenhouse to fit over the existing walls and adjoining building.





This one took a bit of figuring out because the two existing doorways determine where the ridge and eaves have to go - the ridge height is huge or the slope very narrow......

I didn’t want a box valley (they take constant cleaning out) and the doorway in the existing building prevents going too low at that side anyway and I wanted the ridge close to that wall so the door will be nicely lined up with the centre of the greenhouse.

So I built the rear slope at 25degrees (as low as I could risk going but still giving a nice slope so rain will run off it) and the front at 35 degrees.
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The front slope is very long (over 3.5m/11.5ft) so I bought in some imported redwood tanalised 4x2 timber - really straight, tight-grained wood without knots which will cope with this span without sagging.  The glass panes are quite narrow so we get lots of rafters along the run making the structure stronger again.

I used mahogany for the crested ridge so you never need to think about painting those again to protect them - although we should only think about touching up the paintwork every 5 years or so anyway.

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There are 6 automatic opening windows in the roof and 5 around the vertical side panels.

It’s a shame the photos aren’t better but it was getting dark and I didn’t finish the greenhouse until nightfall.

I’ll try and get back here to take a few photos - hopefully when the owner has had the walls rendered inside and a green slate floor laid.

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Phew! 

Off to Bristol next week to build a 3m by 4m greenhouse with full-length cold frame.


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