How to build a plastic bottle greenhouse

Step 7 – Erect the gables

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l Step 8 – Make the front frame

and door The door can be made of a smaller frame hinged to a larger frame. Make the door smaller than the inside of the frame to allow it to open freely if it sags.

Screw the door frame to the front of the greenhouse.

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TO MAKE A 8’x6’ GREENHOUSE

Step 1 – Prepare the bottles

YOU WILL NEED:

Timber:

r posts) 4” x 4”: 4 @ 8’ long (corne 4@8’ 2” x 2”: Side frames 4@6’

4@6’ Back frame

4@6’ Front frame

2@3’

Door & front support

3@6’

4@8’ Roof sides

4@4’*

1@8’ Top beam

4@4’* Top gables

2@6’

2@2’* Gable support

from the plastic bottles Remove the tops and labels soapy water. and wash in the bucket of Then cut off the bottoms.

Step 3 – Build the frames

Step 4 – Thread the bottles

Thread the bottles one inside another onto a garden cane. At one end reverse a bottle so it faces the opposite way, and fit it inside.

This will make a long tube with the ends of the cane sticking out of the tops of the bottles at either end. Repeat for all the canes.

Fix the four corner posts vertically two feet into the ground with the Postcrete.

Put the gravel, slabs or mulch around and inside.

ing on slope and *To be cut to length depend therefore height of roof rox and given All measurements are app as a guide

prox) Garden canes 6’ x 140 (ap rews sc Fencing staples & wood Postcrete x 4 bags g Gravel/slabs/mulch mattin 2 litre plastic bottles 00) (you’ll need approx 1,5

Step 2 – Set the corners

Step 5 – Attach to the frames

Take the lengths of threaded bottles and attach to the frames at the top and bottom with fencing staples.

Attach as many rows as possible until the frame is full.

Step 6 – Attach to posts

TOOLS: Spirit level Drill Mitre block Saw Screwdriver Hammer

Sharp scissors Bucket of soapy water Spade Measuring tape Stepladders

two With the 2x2 timber build a frame for each wall, . ends gable the for the roof, the doors and These are best done with mitred corners and timber screwed together. Use the drill to prevent the from splitting.

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Screw the completed side and

back frames to the posts.