Thinking of purchasing a hobby greenhouse? Here are a few things to reconsider before you take the leap.
Are you going to be using the house the year around, and in what type of climate? The conjecture for this is to know the R value (insulation) of the material that covers the house. If it is honestly thin and the winter temperature is going to fall below icy or more you might want to reconsider what it's going to cost to heat the house. Some of the choices available consist of glass, single wall polycarbonate or twin or triple wall polycarbonate. The multi-layer polycarbonates are the better choice for northern climates. Where are you going to place the house? Is it in an area that receives enough sunlight? Many of the flowering plants wish at least six hours of sunlight per day. If you place the house too close to the north side of a construction or other garage object remember that the angle of the sun will decrease as the season moves toward December and shadows will become longer. Think ahead as to where you want the entry door to face. If you are planning on operating the house during the winter you may not want to place the entry door on the north side. Houses generally are settled with the length oriented in an east-west fashion. This takes advantage of the low angle of the sun in the winter. Are you going to need a construction permit from your local government? Check with your city or county offices for existing construction codes. Heating and ventilation considerations are important. If you will be installing a heating ideas you will need to decree on your source of energy -natural gas, Lp gas, galvanic or fuel oil. You will need to size the heater, which is calculated according to the type of your house face and the extreme external temperatures encountered during the heating season. As for ventilation, arresting the air within the house is commonly not enough. You will need a wall mounted fan that pulls in fresh air from the face and an opposite mounted fan to exhaust the hot air to the outside. Someone else choice would be portable roof vents, which can be thermostatically opened when the temperature reaches a pre-determined level. Fans will also need to be sized according to the whole of the air volume in the house. Foundations. Houses will need to be secured to the ground so that they don't blow away in windy weather. There are some choices to do this. Foundations can be made by pouring a cement slab, driving anchor stakes into the ground or attaching the house to a wood beam base. Additional considerations. If you are installing heating and/or ventilation, supplemental lighting or devices for adding humidity you will need to run electrical power to the house. If you are operating the house the year colse to and don't want to physically carry pails of water you will want to setup a pressurized water source. In areas where it doesn't frost you can run face pipes or hoses from a main source of water. Unless you are growing plants in the ground there will be a need for some form of benches on which to place your plants. In order to cut down on the intense summer sun you have a combine of choices-woven shade cloth made with various percentages of shade or liquid reflective shade composition that can be sprayed onto the roof. Finally, there will be a need for plant containers, soil mixes and fertilizers. And, you will need a source for seeds and living plant material. Be informed too, that you will never have enough space. reconsider purchasing a house for which there are available incremental additions that can added to your existing space.
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