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Wife wants another greenhouse!

That is a 300 gallon skid tank with a Gas Boy hand pump! If it was not blowing so hard I would have the wife take a pic of me standing next to it. I just got back with a load of windows from the habitat place and now she wants 2 more!
 
Sorry Mr Muleman, The tank sort of looked like a bad view of someone. What does the Mrs. want 2 more of ???????
 
She wanted more windows but I just got offered 3 more patio door sections from a buddy who works at a home maufacturer. He is bringing me up a section of the good insulated pex pipe tomorrow morning on their way to fishing up on lake Ontario. I will be putting stone on the site and need the pipe in so I can start on the sills and get it tamped down.
 
Sorry I have not got back to this thread for a while. Yes I pump hot water from the wood boiler through the pex pipe. I did get the underground pipe and wiring installed in late November during hunting season. I got the bottom boards and the first layer of stone put down but then it froze solid and it got put on hold. Over New Years it warmed up enough to put down a couple layers of felt paper and some left over shingles followed by a layer of foil faced duct wrap. Then the concrete wire for a grid to tie the pex tubing to. Wife and i ran the tubing on New Years day and got a bunch of the stone put over it. The stone pile was froze so hard I had to use the backhoe to claw it loose and smash the chunks up. It is not pretty yet but once I put the heat to it and thaw it out we will be able to rake it out nicer. Today I built the trusses in the barn and tomorrow the Amish boys are coming to help set them and hopefully get the roof on. Then we will work on the walls and windows. Pics tomorrow if we have time.
 
We got working on it today despite getting 3-4 inches of snow while we did it. The trusses and purlons are all set and we have the treated base lumber on for the walls to set on. The Amish have a wedding to go to tomorrow and weather looks shitty for Friday so we will get back at it when we can. Every little bit gets us closer to having more space for plants.
 

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Looks like a good days work :clap: . Dont know if I missed it elsewhere but it looks to be sitting on a pad of sorts . Leveled dirt , gravel or otherwise ? :smile:
 
I raised the elevation because of the groundwater that likes to flow around there. Built it up with crushed stone about 5 inches above the natural slope and leveled it. That way snowmelt and rain won't draw the heat in the floor away from it. I want to keep the plants warm not watch the heat run down the yard and road.
 
muleman said:
I raised the elevation because of the groundwater that likes to flow around there. Built it up with crushed stone about 5 inches above the natural slope and leveled it. That way snowmelt and rain won't draw the heat in the floor away from it. I want to keep the plants warm not watch the heat run down the yard and road.
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Thanks thats what I kind of thought . looks good so far . :biggrin:
 
pirate_girl said:
Nice.
How's your shoulder feeling today after all that work?
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Not too bad. The body takes a while to get used to working up over your head. Feel better than I did after wiring new lights in the wife's sewing area the other day.
 
Finally got a break in the cold weather. Shoveled the snow off the pad and walls yesterday. We got rained out this morning but the afternoon turned out pretty nice. The Amish boys and I got all the roof panels on this afternoon and laid out the end wall before they had to be back to milk cows. Tomorrow we can at least work under the roof as they are calling for more showers and possibly sleet later in the day. I hope to have the pex heating this weekend. Doubt we will have all the walls closed in but we are going to give it a shot.
 
Awesome planning and execution... I never realized how so much effort and design goes into building a simple greenhouse before. You are amazing!

I have a sewing room also, and the correct lighting is of paramount importance to one.

keep the pics coming... it is so interesting to see it going up thro each stage. :smile:
 
As requested a few more pics of the progress.
 

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Weather is going to give us a fit for a while. Depending on how bad the snow is we may be able to work this week on getting the other side and end built in. We had a causality of one sliding panel so plans may get adjusted or else I have to make a long drive in the morning for some more panels. Here are some of the plants that are supposed to already be in the new one. There are not too many strawberries cause they seem to end up in my cereal bowl.:whistling:
 

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Really nice work Bill ! I will not be able to even think about a green house for another 4 months . Just too much snow and then mud till the end of May .
 
That is why I get done what I can when I can. It is nice to work with a clean stone base under you. We put stall mats down over the mud from the trenches for heat and electric so we were not tracking it over the stone. I managed to scrape one more bucket full with the skid steer off the stone pile on Saturday and dump it in on the other end. I left ruts about 5 inches deep in the mud to get it there. If it gets too bad I will bust a round bale out around the outside to keep the mud down.
 
muleman said:
When it gets light out I will take a pic of it with a ft. of snow on it.
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Hopefully it will be on it, rather then in it .:whistling: You must have that boiler working overtime to keep the other one at decent temps during this kind of winter . :wink:
 
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