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I really enjoyed the challenges of designing and building this one - making best use of the space by completely filling it with greenhouse.  Also, having the doorway in the only place it could really go - the front end - meant I had to move the ridge line to the front and alter the roof pitches.  Even the walls were tricky - I had assumed the concrete slab was level (it wasn't) so the first job was to cut bricks along the first couple of courses to feather it level before I carried on with building the walls.

The greenhouse fits the space really well but it's deceptively tall inside - 3.4m high and the guttering is over 2m from the floor.

This is great for the health of the plants and the greenhouse should maintain heat longer nestled into the hillside like this.

There are 4 auto-opening roof windows and 4 tall side windows with black cast iron fittings throughout.  The ridge is from mahogany (to make sure it's tough enough) painted with 4 coats of Profilan paint.

I fitted a set of solid iron bar supports under the roof for the customer to support hanging baskets or tomatos from .  The roof itself is very strong - made from 4x2 structural grade timber with noggins and horizontal supports and birds mouth jointed along the eave - ready in case we get heavy snow loads through the winter months.