Another tricky base build this week. To be fair, it's always hard to tell if something is truly level until you start work on it - and it was soon obvious we had a problem. The doorway is about 1 1/2 foot higher than the rear so we're faced with a potential big drop down when you open the door. Another problem was that all the building materials could only be delivered near the road - which is on the other side of the house you can see in the photo below. I am so grateful that my customer has a ride-on mower and trailer I could use to move all the materials down to the site. Unfortunately I ran out of time, and materials, this week. I'm going to lay another extra 4 courses around the base so that the front elevation is taller and will look in proportion with the completed greenhouse. I will compact a lot of hardcore on the internal floor which will lift the height as well and then lay the flooring slabs on a dry mix and add a small step under the doorway to lessen the height difference again. But this will have to do for this week.
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This week I'm on the east coast of England to build the base for a greenhouse with attached shed for a professional gardener where space is limited. It's replacing a greenhouse and shed which once stood side by side. This one will be built from accoya with a cedar shingle roof for the shed, cedar cladding to the gable end. It will have lots of opening windows to the sides and roof, and a sandstone floor. This is the "Mark" greenhouse built from Accoya with an internal brick-sided raised bed and concrete setts used for the flooring. This one was a long drive from home for me -between 7-8 hours and I seem to have a spate of these long-distance greenhouses over the next few weeks. Usually the extra distance doesn't matter too much as I stay over for the whole week until the job is complete, so the journey is only taken a couple of times but 8 hours feels like a full day before I've arrived! I must be getting older! Anyway, enough of that - check out the photos of this beautiful garden.....
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