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- Statics and safety - also important for the greenhouse
- Foundations - made easy
- Anchor greenhouse, preferably even frost-proof
- Anchor ready sets to the greenhouse
- Tips
There are several ways to anchor a greenhouse
Statics and safety - also important for the greenhouse
Every building has to be stable and safe, so it's good for the home garden: Anchoring a careful greenhouse is a must. This requires no profound expertise, but some structural peculiarities and general laws of statics must be adhered to.
Whether purchased as a prefabricated kit or as an individual unique piece and built piece by piece - to anchor the new greenhouse, you should very carefully. After all, every morning it has to be in exactly the same place it was left the night before. With the classic concrete foundation achieved the highest stability and it can also be quite easily and inexpensively built on their own. Prefabricated houses often include a special fixing set, which consists of columns and eyes to be inserted into the floor and which can be anchored to the greenhouse with the help of steel cables.
Foundations - made easy
Basically, most hobby gardeners choose one of the three following variants anchored to the greenhouse, all of which provide a high level of security. Differences are:
It should be noted that, depending on the size of the new greenhouse, construction permits may even be required in some federal states. Also the optimal and mostly final location selection is important to consider, because later corrections are hardly possible to operate without much effort. If it is intended to use the greenhouse year round and to heat it if necessary, the closed foundation plate is the optimal solution.
Anchor greenhouse, preferably even frost-proof
This means that the depth of the pit should be between 60 and 80 cm, which is next to the desired stability later also allows the plants under grow to optimal climatic conditions and heating energy is required only very moderately. It is recommended to use precast concrete, which is available as dry mortar in all major DIY stores. When mixed with water, the concrete only needs to be filled into the prepared excavation pit and, as shown in the manufacturer's documentation, harden for a few days. The concrete layer should be at least 20 cm thick, as a base, the excavated foundation before cementing can also be filled with gravel, The anchors necessary for proper statics, with which the greenhouse frame is screwed after it has dried out, come into the foundation.
Anchor ready sets to the greenhouse
By principle, these kits work much like a point foundation, except that the anchors are embedded in the ground slightly outside of the outer walls. As a connection to the greenhouse several steel cables over the roof misaligned, which are fixed on the opposite side. There are also manual tensioning devices that are supposed to ensure that the metal ropes are as close as possible to the outer shell of the greenhouse. Purely in terms of aesthetics, however, the previously described concrete foundations would certainly be more attractive.
Tips
In order to anchor everything in the greenhouse at a later time, this comparatively small foundation should also be exactly staked out with a battering board. The absolute ground level and perpendicularity not only looks good afterwards, but also increases stability and safety.