DIY polycarbonate greenhouse: drawings and instructions

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How to make a polycarbonate greenhouse with your own hands drawings

If you decide to assemble a polycarbonate greenhouse yourself, you will need a construction plan and certain materials, the list of which you can find below.

The main stages of greenhouse installation

Design selection

First you need to decide on the type and material of the frame for the future greenhouse. There is a huge variety of both standard solutions and individual projects.

Types of greenhouse frames

Features of various frames from the point of view of the gardener

The choice of material is also important.In hardware stores, ready-made sets of metal profiles are sold, which are assembled as a designer.

Finished metal frame

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PVC pipes can also be used as a material. They lend themselves well to bending, lightweight and easy to install.

Frame made of PVC pipes

And of course, one cannot fail to note the wood, which also serves as an excellent frame for these buildings, is available, cheap and allows you to mount structures of various shapes and sizes.

Greenhouse with timber frame

Drawing up a drawing

A do-it-yourself greenhouse made of polycarbonate, drawing up a drawing of which does not take much time, will turn out to be large and convenient, provided that all the necessary rules are observed.

Drawing of a classic construction of a house

First of all, you need to decide on the size of the structure. They will depend on the area of ​​the personal plot, what and in what quantity you are going to grow, and, of course, on the cost of materials.

Arched greenhouse plan

Foundation preparation

The strength and reliability of the greenhouse will depend on how high-quality foundation you prepare for it. There may be several options here. The most common is a wooden base. To erect it, you will need a bar, a level, screwdriver, shovel, tape measure 7 meters, construction knife. You need to cut 2 pieces of 3 meters and 2 pieces of 3.85 meters. When assembling a box from a bar, we put a bar for convenience on a narrow part for further convenience of installing polycarbonate, so that it overlaps the bar. Three-meter beams should cover the end of the beam 3.85 m.

Lumber foundation

But the most reliable will be a concrete base. If you are going to make a large greenhouse and use a metal profile or wooden bars for the frame, then a concrete foundation will be needed due to the significant weight of the entire structure. For the installation of the cement foundation, we manufacture the formwork, according to the size of the intended foundation. We cover it with cement and let the cement harden and harden.

Instructions for the construction of a concrete base

Making a frame from a metal profile

If you are going to make the frame yourself, then you will need: metal profile: square tube 25 x 25 mm, pipe bending machine, welding machine, corner Sander... And for the further assembly of the greenhouse: polycarbonate sheets, metal tapes, metal corners, self-tapping screws, including roofing.

Required tool

You can easily make a polycarbonate greenhouse with your own hands, the drawings of which are ready. We take a square metal pipe 25x25 mm, preferably galvanized, roll it through pipe bending machine, as a result of which we obtain an arc of the required size.

Making arcs with a pipe bender

We cut the pipe to the size of the structure and weld arcs to it, in increments of 0.65-1.0 m. We make 7 arcs: two at the ends, 5 at intervals.

Frame assembly drawing

Using a welding machine, we mount the greenhouse frame

We make the ends - we connect the ends of the arcs with a three-meter square pipe 25x 25 mm, we weld the door frame and vents. Alternatively, such a frame can be purchased at a specialized store.

Do not forget about doors and windows

Mount to base

Fastening to a wooden base

On the previously exposed wooden frame or cement foundation, we install the lower frame of the greenhouse along the long sides of the foundation. Fastening on a wooden foundation is carried out with self-tapping screws, into the corresponding technological holes provided by the manufacturer of the greenhouses or drilled independently, if you made the frame yourself.

Fastening the frame with a metal base

If you did not prepare the base, then the arcs of the frame are attached directly to the wooden foundation using clamps.

Fastening arcs to a wooden base

Fastening to a concrete base

The frame is fixed to the cement foundation using special anchor bolts or metal corners.

The scheme of fastening the structure with anchor bolts

Fastening arcs with metal corners

Installation of polycarbonate

We sheathe the ends of the greenhouse with polycarbonate on a horizontal plane. Having fixed the polycarbonate at the ends, we cut out the doors and two vents (since it is convenient to cut polycarbonate on a horizontal plane).

Covering the ends with polycarbonate

We install ready-made ends. We install accessories: handles, locks, hooks for fixing doors and vents.

Installing fittings

We release the polycarbonate sheets from the protective film, carefully throw the first sheet onto the frame, align it. We withdraw 1-3 cm of polycarbonate for the end, align the edge along the end, fasten the sheet on the end arc with roofing screws.

Sheathing scheme of the frame

Installation of the first polycarbonate sheet

Then we take metal galvanized strips, throw them over the sheet, fasten the strips with roofing screws, starting from the second arc. We throw in the second sheet of polycarbonate and install the remaining tapes. We make a constriction: we tighten the tapes from the first sheet from the second arc, the overlap of the sheets is pulled together last. And you become the proud owner of a new polycarbonate greenhouse.

Fastening sheets with galvanized strips

If a polycarbonate greenhouse with your own hands, the drawings of which are made according to all standards, are assembled, then the following recommendations must be observed in order to extend the validity period.

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