Friday, October 1, 2010

Building the Solexx Greenhouse

We are now about 7 hours total into building the new Solexx Greenhouse. There are LOTS of pieces! Its much liking building a full size structure out of lincoln logs!

Overall I am pleased thus far with the construction. Virtually all of the frame is made of a really strong and hard non-bendable composite material. Only the foor frames are PVC to allow them to bend across the top. The connections are very sturdy metal pieces with a thumbcrew to hold each composite pipe in place. As you can see in the pics below the frame is very strong!

It will likely take a couple of weeks until this is ready to use, expeically working only evenings after the "day job".  What we accomplished thus far in two shifts is building hte frame of the front half. We still need to build the duplicate back half and the connecting walkway, four doors, then put it place and add the floor and covering.  Its a lot of work but will be worth it in the end. This thing has lots of room inside and is warranted for 10 years!

Here are some pics of the last 2 evenings of work.

Someone left an extra piece here!


I know this goes in here somewhere!



The supervisor looking over our work.


Almost done!


Weight Testing!




Does this double as a jungle gym?


Whew.. how many pages are left in these instructions?

By the way... While we are working on the greenhouse the PigCam is turned off becasue I need the power cord to run the power screwdriver.

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