ehanes7612
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Unless you need your screw heads flush, use self tapping screws with hex heads. You can chuck up the appropriate size nut driver bit in your drill, and drive them right in without a pilot hole.:wink:
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Unless you need your screw heads flush, use self tapping screws with hex heads. You can chuck up the appropriate size nut driver bit in your drill, and drive them right in without a pilot hole.:wink:
had an idea for wind stabilization.Using heavy treated 4 x 6's around the perimeter in one layer. then piping rope through each arch piping secured to the wooden base. also pipe rope through the two top horizontal pipes...and crossing the rope to the bases inside the greenhouse to create lateral stabilization...might work..nylon rope?
Probably, running ropes into the gh may be pretty short term as things like to rot in high humidity environments. Maybe instead of rope you could run some big U bolts throught he walls to secure the wood.
As mention previously I made a short knee wall of railroad tie to suround the frame, and didn't tie the GH to the wall at all. Working with stacked landscape timbers or cinder block may accomplish the same thing. Also my system used a series of rebar pins pounded into the ground that went up about a foot into the pipe in the corners of the frame. You might try something similar that would be like big tent pins on strategic points pounded into the ground.
I've been tempted to build one like that off the back of my house, but the hurricanes that blow through here every few years scare me out of it. I'm on a hill and that is the exposed side of the house over looking a broad valley. The other side is protected by the small ridge line. Hurricanes tend to track northeast and as they exit the trailing winds change direction and wallop everything on that side...scary when that happens!
Good luck with your project.
A couple of Sumo wrestlers sitting on the bottom bars should do the trick. oke:
Shaping up really well Ehanes. When I had similar structure, I hang light weight steel mesh along the sides, as well as the end, which gave more stability and rigidness. But it also gave me place to hang. But that was with GWI pipe frame. It might work with your PVC structure. Just see how it will take the extra weight
Tie light weight steel mesh (say 2 feet wide by the length of your GH) along the side of your structure to each of the PVC poles, about 4-5 feet from the ground. And then across the rear end. Just an idea to strengthen and give more rigidness to your structure.
Ehanes, you do not need to buy expensive/new building material. I got my off cut steel mesh from our local steel fabricator and used to carry a lot of mesh any size/thickness for a small fraction of the new ones. Some you can use to make your bench as well.
By the way are you making windows as well?? Good luck.
Haha! Mobeus struts!
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