The Greenhouse Project

This could be a super fancy online project OR even a new cryptocurrency. "Greenhouse coin".

I'm not sure if it's a good or bad thing, I like greenhouses but people usually think of the greenhouse effect, which is not what I'm thinking of first. At best, I can even get someone comment on this post how climate change is fake.

This is a more boring post than that, especially with very limited amount of photos.

Spoiler! _{The before AND after photo}

However, we had a small project to build up our own small greenhouse from the timber we had in our garage. We had a "glass roof" for this, made from two old windows and this had been giving some cover to low growing plants when the weather was a bit chillier.

The plan was to use the timber to build a sturdy body for the greenhouse, have the top from glass and add some panels on the sides. First issue was that we had only random timber left by the previous house owners, but we managed to scrape up some decent stuff to start the constructing with.

My wife had measured the correct length for all pieces needed and she had cut the timber to correct sizes. There were some adjustments required afterwards though, as not all timber was straight. _Hehe

The main "legs" which the roof would stand on was an issue though, as we were unsure what would be the best way to attach them. The roof had no straight bottom, as it was tilted 45 degrees. We were thinking of cutting the top of timber 45 degrees or adding some extra boards so we could attach the roof to the wooden body. We ended up in making a notch to hold the roof, while still allowing us to add screws from the sides easily.

Our largest issue was this - should we spin around the heavy glass roof and attach the timber "legs" to it and then lift it up OR build the body first and then lift the glass roof on top of the body.

We ended up in building the body first but in two separate pieces, then attaching them to the glass roof before lifting it up. This was the part which we handled almost perfectly. We even laughed and had fun.

Amazing times.

They lasted only until we finished the greenhouse, as we quickly noticed it was extremely shaky. The glass roof was far too heavy and as the greenhouse was high, it didn't seem safe at all.

I had a suggestion to my wife:

Let's ditch this idea and buy a real greenhouse.

My wife however wanted to try something else - we should make the greenhouse lower so it wouldn't be as unsteady.

We started to take apart the reinforcing structures so my wife could start sawing the "legs" shorter. At this point, when re-attaching the reinforcing structures, the cordless screwdriver ran out of battery. We had to take a short pause from the work.

After rebuilding the greenhouse as a lower version.. it was still really unsteady. The structure was shaking when you touched it, so we were worried how it would react to children, weather and actually using the greenhouse.

My wife was still determined and went to look for more timber.

After working for over 30 minutes more, she finally came up to me saying "Fuck this shit" (she didn't actually say that, but I could see that in her face)

The greenhouse didn't get any better and it would have been only a matter of time it would have come crashing down. The only way to make it sturdy enough would have made it inconvenient to use, as we wanted a small, fun greenhouse to use.

So now we are checking online for greenhouses. This could have saved us 3-4 hours of our lives.

_{And yes, the reason I don't have any photos from the construction phases is the fact it was a terrible project and I was a bit pissed off most of the time. Hopefully I'll get you a photo of our real greenhouse construction project.}

Bonus round!

As a bonus, you can purchase this high quality cherry tree.

Some assembly required.