If you’re thinking about building a greenhouse here’s an opportunity to learn from my misfortune.
This is bad.
When I first built it, my 50 dollar green house had a design flaw to say the least.
Fortunately After removing the snow from my collapse greenhouse it’s almost as good as new. But, I think I can prevent this from happening again.
This isn’t a great thing to find on a winters morning, but on the other hand a minor fail like this is just the thing to help improve a design. Fortunately I got the snow off of it before any real damage was done – this time. If I didn’t live in the (usually) sunny south it wouldn’t have taken me over a year to discover this design flaw. So – to anyone who’s been inspired by this blog to build a greenhouse… Sorry about that.
Here’s the thing – as long as rain or snow runs off and doesn’t accumulate which it usually doesn’t – all is well. It’s even OK for a little bit of snow to accumulate on top, because it just falls right off of the steep sides, and no harm is done. But once the peak starts to sag then it doesn’t run off like it needs to, and it can build up more weight making it sag even more, which allows more to collect, more weight, more sag… Until you get an ugly surprise.
So here’s what I did. » Read more: Greenhouse Collapse!