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bc103963

24/11/2011 at 15:28

Fearture useless since it did not allow for aluminium greenhoses only wooden ones

grb 20/09/09

marchend

24/11/2011 at 15:28

I have several 'Dianthus Pink' plant cuttings in my plastic upright cloche.

Can I insulate the cloche using the same method as for the green house, or will it still not be enough to protect my plant cuttings through the winter.

I normally bring them inside the house over winter, but I now have quite a few that would take up allot of space indoors.

FlamingJune

24/11/2011 at 15:28

Just a tip if you haven't got time to bubble wrap the entire greenhouse, get one of those mini plastic greenhouses, stick it inside the glass greenhouse, and use that for small plants.

sweetpea24

24/11/2011 at 15:28

I need instructions for insulating an aluminium greenhouse - how can I fasten the bubble wrap?

potterer

24/11/2011 at 15:28

You can buy plastic clips from any good garden centre
to fix bubble wrap to a aluminium greenhouse,this will be the third year that I have used mine.

KCarr

24/11/2011 at 15:28

I used strong plastic clothes pegs to secure bubble wrap on my aluminium green house. Just push between glass and frame and secure plastic to it.

bclampton

24/11/2011 at 15:29

I was given a good tip when insulating greenhouses without the groove for the plastic clip. I have an old Alitex greenhouse which has an ordinary frame the bars of which are T shaped and so there is no groove. I was told to put the insulation up and clip it to the extruding piece of the frame with butterfly clips. Places like Lidl sell large boxes of them very cheap and it works well and is cheap.

Melspade

24/11/2011 at 15:29

I attached a length of battening (resting on the window bars at each end of the greenhouse) against either long side of the greenhouse and tie in. Push wrap down behind your bench to floor, up over the bar and over top of bench and you create an individual insulated area within your greenhouse, or adapt to suit. Easy and cheap to construct, lift up the front on a warm day. I keep the battons in place all year as I use them to attach strings to grow tomatoes.

luckymucky

24/11/2011 at 15:29

Using "large bubble" for the first time.

The Alliclip Extensions do not twist through the expected 90 degrees and fall out quite easily when it comes to attaching the bubble and retaining Alliclip.

I've trimmed nearly 300 of these to allow them to twist correctly (in my opinion)

Be interesting to know of any one else has had the same problem.
The greenhouse is a powder coated Robinson.

The finished job looks great !!

debeezdragon

24/11/2011 at 15:29

Thanks for none of the help in my question.........................

debeezdragon

24/11/2011 at 15:29

I have a plastic greenhouse how do I insulate that please?

ruthajohnson

24/11/2011 at 15:30

Have just seen your comment, debeezdragon. I covered my little plastic greenhouse in horticultural fleece and bubblewrap - just held in place snugly by the outer plastic cover. This is the first year I have done this, so it remains to be seen how effective it is in protecting my plants

Lolo

16/01/2012 at 17:41

Half an hour to do the job!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No way.It would've been useful to read what temperature improvement there would normally be.

speirs

03/02/2012 at 11:29

I was told that I could wet bubble wrap before fixing it to the greenhouse. I have tried this without a great deal of success. Can anyone tell me if they have tried this method and if they have had any success.

Lyn

08/02/2012 at 15:46

Dont know why one should wet the bubble wrap, I bought a big cheap roll of B.W. packaging and a couple of packets of standard clips and corner clips and away we went -- perfect, its worked well through our severe frosts nothing has died.

lolly2

31/03/2012 at 22:35

just aquired a greenhouse and it has bubble wrap insulation should i leave it on or do i need to take it off during the summer

lolly2

31/03/2012 at 22:47

I have just acquired a greenhouse which is insulated with bubble wrap,do I leave it on or do I take it off for the summer.

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