Virtually every man has a craving for construction. This desire can be very useful in such a vital aspect, as refining and giving the functionality of the dacha, while saving money.
Any cottage needs greenhouse, which can be built using plastic and polycarbonate pipes independently.
Description
In order to build a greenhouse frame, first you need to decide what type of plastic pipes it is better to use. There are:
- PVC;
- polypropylene;
- metal plastic.
The simplest and cheapest pipes are made from PVC. It is easy to build a frame for a greenhouse made of PVC, since such pipes do not need additional equipment during installation. They have sufficient strength, which depends on the thickness of the pipe walls, which you should pay attention to when buying.
The frame of the greenhouse of polypropylene pipes has a high plasticity and resistance at the same time. Polypropylene pipes can be described as durable. Installation, as with pipes PVC, does not require special devices, their cost is approximately equal.
Very resistant pipes are those made from metal plastic. Their design allows you to take any form, while maintaining its reliability. Due to the aluminum foil that lines the surface inside the pipe, they remain corrosion free. The diameter of such pipes for the frame is better to choose more than 25 mm.
Look at the photo how the greenhouse looks from plastic pipes and polycarbonate:
TO positive aspects of the designobtained from any kind of plastic pipes include:
- ease of installation of the frame;
- the ability to collect any necessary configuration;
- low material cost;
- pipes are resistant to corrosion and moisture.
TO negative points include:
- do not have high wind resistance;
- the inability to glaze the greenhouse.
The form that can be given to a greenhouse made of plastic pipes can be arched, pyramidal, gable and single-slope.
- Arched shape the most popular. The frame looks like a few arches located at some distance from each other.
- Pyramidal It is possible to meet the greenhouse not so often, as there is no special need for it on the ordinary dacha.
- Gabled frame looks like a little house. It is convenient if you plan to grow tall plants in a greenhouse or make several tiers in a small area.
- Shed Form greenhouses are clear as it looks, based on the description of the gable. Such a framework is rarely erected, and only in those cases when another structure cannot be erected for some reason.
Frame
The best solution for the construction of greenhouses polycarbonate will elect for the frame pipe made from metal plastic the following reasons:
- they are over are reliable for such material as polycarbonate;
- it is possible to build a foundation for a greenhouse, if it is supposed to be stationary;
- the ability to build a solid and fairly stable portable greenhouse;
- Ready made arcs for greenhouses are available for sale, which will help to avoid a rather complicated stage during installation as pipe bending.
Important: Polycarbonate is very convenient because it can be cut even with ordinary construction knife.
Preparatory work
How to make a greenhouse from polycarbonate and plastic pipes with your own hands? Before construction frame, it is necessary to think over and systematize the upcoming work. In order to make everything flawlessly, you need to do the following:
- First, select the appropriate a placewhere the greenhouse will be located. This is done in such a way that it is located at a sufficient distance from the existing structures and massive vegetation. Lighting - also an important factor when choosing a place for a greenhouse, it must be determined so that the light period per day was as long as possible on this site. And the third thing about choosing a place is relief. It is important that it be as even as possible, without mounds and pits, and most importantly, it is desirable to locate the greenhouse on a flat plane and not to tilt. The most successful will be the place in which these three factors coincide.
- To decide on by type greenhouses. From the needs of the gardener will depend on the type of greenhouse. If it is needed all year round, then it is better to do it on the foundation and very firmly fasten, and also bear in mind that plastic pipes have the properties to give cracks from which they can not be protected. If the greenhouse is needed only for the summer period, in the case of using plastic and polycarbonate, you can make it folding. Portable greenhouse is constructed as needed, but it is worth remembering that its resistance to wind will also need to be foreseen.
- Training drawing. And the last moment of preparation will be the drawing production. It is done quite simply, based on the real areas of the site under the greenhouse. You can use a ready, standard, if the sizes suit.
The greenhouse foundation of metal pipes it is better to do it yourself, especially in the case when the desired type of greenhouse is stationary. The foundation for such greenhouses is usually tape or columnar.
When the foundation is poured into it, the metal mortgages are mounted, to which the frame of the greenhouse is subsequently attached. If it was decided not to do the foundation, metal pins are mounted into the ground, remaining on the surface with a length of 30 cmOn which the frame is worn on the perimeter.
Polycarbonate greenhouse do it yourself: plastic pipes
How to make a greenhouse yourself from a plastic pipe under polycarbonate: a step by step instruction (for a standard arched greenhouse, size 4x10 m):
- Paramount level surface plot of land where the greenhouse will be located.
- Depending on the resolution of the foundation, it is either poured or driven into the ground reinforcement pins. If the option is chosen without a foundation, then such pins will need 36 segments of the same size. Two of them should be further divided by half and built into the attachment points of the inner corners. The rest is arranged depending on drawing greenhouses under each pipe around the perimeter.
- The next thing to do is put the reinforcing pins on one side. pipes, taking the length of 6 m. Forming arcs, put them on the opposite side of the fixtures from the reinforcement.
- To fix the frame of the pipes, it is necessary to assemble one of 10 meters from two six-meter pipes. It should be positioned in the center of arcs, fix with hose clamps.
- The next step is to cover the frame. polycarbonate sheets. It is preferable to choose them not less than 4mm thick, the size for the described construction will be equal to 2.1x6 m.
- Produce sheets produce overlap, providing sealing joints in the future with the help of specialized tape. Fixation takes place with the help of a thermo washer or self-tapping screws with wide caps, which should not be tightly twisted.
- It remains to build a door and on a similar principle a window or several for the possibility ventilation. To make a door, it is necessary to make for it a frame of the required size from pipes, fixing them together with tees.
- The next thing to do is attach a door to the main structure on the loop.
Important: if the frame is not initially fixed to the pins, then there is a probability that the structure may fly away during assembly.
Conclusion
Simply install the greenhouse from plastic pipes and polycarbonateknowing all the main nuances. The material allows you to find the best option for the construction of the greenhouse, obeying the desires and capabilities of each.
