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New greenhouse going up 4m x 3m roughly. Aluminium frame with glass. any recommendations for foundations. Its on good firm ground

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fred Wrote in message:
New greenhouse going up 4m x 3m roughly. Aluminium frame with glass. any recommendations for foundations. Its on good firm ground


Paving slabs on a good sharp/soft/OPC base?
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On 28/05/19 06:48, fred wrote:
New greenhouse going up 4m x 3m roughly. Aluminium frame with glass. any recommendations for foundations. Its on good firm ground

Mine is is of a similar size, and was two courses of single bricks on
concrete (not sure of the width & depth as I didn't do it) Maybe 15cm x
20cm?). The greenhouse was screwed down onto the bricks. That may seem
like overkill, but with the sort of winds we seem to be getting these
days it might be a reasonable precaution.

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"fred" wrote in message
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New greenhouse going up 4m x 3m roughly. Aluminium frame with glass. any
recommendations for foundations. Its on good firm ground

holding it down in strong winds should be your first concern .....

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On 28/05/2019 06:48, fred wrote:
New greenhouse going up 4m x 3m roughly. Aluminium frame with glass. any recommendations for foundations. Its on good firm ground

concrete blocks laid on sides or paving slabs

No need for 'real' foundations


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On Tuesday, 28 May 2019 11:45:29 UTC+1, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 28/05/2019 06:48, fred wrote:
New greenhouse going up 4m x 3m roughly. Aluminium frame with glass. any recommendations for foundations. Its on good firm ground

concrete blocks laid on sides or paving slabs

No need for 'real' foundations

+1, they're so light, and able to tolerate a little ground movement.

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On Tuesday, 28 May 2019 06:49:01 UTC+1, fred wrote:
New greenhouse going up 4m x 3m roughly. Aluminium frame with glass. any recommendations for foundations. Its on good firm ground

Polytunnels are a better bet.

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"harry" wrote in message
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On Tuesday, 28 May 2019 06:49:01 UTC+1, fred wrote:
New greenhouse going up 4m x 3m roughly. Aluminium frame with glass. any
recommendations for foundations. Its on good firm ground

Polytunnels are a better bet.

The problem with those is that the second year
you dont sleep at night when its at all stormy.

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On Wed, 29 May 2019 06:28:19 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:


Polytunnels are a better bet.

The problem with those is that the second year
you don¢t sleep at night when its at all stormy.

You disagree, auto-contradicting senile Rodent? Well, that's a new one! LOL

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On 28/05/19 17:15, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Tue, 28 May 2019 08:50:26 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Tuesday, 28 May 2019 11:45:29 UTC+1, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 28/05/2019 06:48, fred wrote:
New greenhouse going up 4m x 3m roughly. Aluminium frame with glass. any recommendations for foundations. Its on good firm ground

concrete blocks laid on sides or paving slabs

No need for 'real' foundations

+1, they're so light, and able to tolerate a little ground movement.

Not sure about that. Perhaps if the panes are fairly small, but if
they're single Dutch Lights, even a slight amount of ground movement
will cause the rectangular side frames to distort to parallelograms,
putting stress on the glass, which then cracks. DAMHIKT.

Indeed. I specified toughened glass panes for my greenhouse and I'm very
glad I did. Twice, strange wind eddies sucked out the end roof panel
(about 1500 x 300mm) and deposited - fortunately on the lawn - five
metres away. Being toughened glass, the panel didn't break.

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Jeff Layman Wrote in message:
On 28/05/19 17:15, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Tue, 28 May 2019 08:50:26 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Tuesday, 28 May 2019 11:45:29 UTC+1, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 28/05/2019 06:48, fred wrote:
New greenhouse going up 4m x 3m roughly. Aluminium frame with glass. any recommendations for foundations. Its on good firm ground

concrete blocks laid on sides or paving slabs

No need for 'real' foundations

+1, they're so light, and able to tolerate a little ground movement.

Not sure about that. Perhaps if the panes are fairly small, but if
they're single Dutch Lights, even a slight amount of ground movement
will cause the rectangular side frames to distort to parallelograms,
putting stress on the glass, which then cracks. DAMHIKT.

Indeed. I specified toughened glass panes for my greenhouse and I'm very
glad I did. Twice, strange wind eddies sucked out the end roof panel
(about 1500 x 300mm) and deposited - fortunately on the lawn - five
metres away. Being toughened glass, the panel didn't break.


Nah, poltergeist.
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