Diy Polytunnel Guttering

Choose a warm day to install the cover.

Diy polytunnel guttering.

Use the ones that go on top of a row of tiles in the bathroom. All you need are some basic diy skills and some willing helpers four people is ideal. Once they re securely in the ground check to be sure the tubes are level with a spirit level. These should be cut to about six feet in length and driven into the ground to a depth of about three feet depending on your desired polytunnel size.

Plastic tile trims work really well as flexible gutters that can be taped to the outside of the tunnel. The bigger the tunnel the deeper the poles should go. See more ideas about greenhouse greenhouse gardening veg garden. The roof of the polytunnel.

Warm weather makes the plastic more pliable and therefore easier to stretch tightly over the frame. Building your own polytunnel from a kit can save you hundreds of pounds in construction costs. Or if you don t have a timber side rail and your polythene is trenched or fixed to a base rail we supply an extruded aluminium backing profile. Rather than use plastic adhesive stick on guttering which can prove expensive and unreliable here s an innovative and sure way of collecting precious rainwater from a polytunnel providing off mains supply for remote areas or allotments.

This is replicated using offcuts of scaffolding tubes and mains water pipe. The logical place to harvest rainwater is from a convenient clean surface area high up. The gutter is installed at the top of the straight side of the polytunnel hoop where the curve starts. A standard polytunnel has a framework constructed from hoops of aluminimum or other metal tubing.