How to build a greenhouse with your own hands from plastic pipes

Design advantages

A greenhouse made of plastic pipes is becoming more and more popular because it has a number of undeniable advantages. It is easy to do, the assembly itself will take only a few hours, you do not need to be a professional for this, it is enough to decide on the dimensions, make a drawing, buy and bring the necessary materials. Since plastic pipes are lightweight, they do not need much physical strength to transport, load and unload, assemble a greenhouse or greenhouse. Therefore, you do not need to involve many people to work.

Any structures made of PVC (polyvinyl chloride) or HDPE (low pressure polyethylene) pipes are easy to assemble and dismantle, which is very convenient in the country. Often they make hotbeds for seasonal use, covered with plastic wrap: the owners use them for a non-round year, after operation they remove the film, disassemble the frame, clean it for the winter, and reassemble it again in the spring. Assembling the structure with his own hands, the summer resident wants not only to save money, but also to realize his own desires, plastic elements are best suited for this.

Perhaps the most important advantage of plastic pipes in comparison with other materials used is the absence of their interaction with water, earth, air - PVC and HDPE does not rust, does not grow moldy, does not rot, does not emit any harmful substances either into the air or into the ground. This explains the durability of the material - an important quality in itself. And environmental friendliness in agriculture, of course, is welcomed.

What are PVC pipe greenhouses

Greenhouses most often do:

• arched;
• gable;
• single-slope.

For arched greenhouses made of PVC pipes with their own hands, knock down a box of boards or wooden beams. Pipes are put on metal, less often wooden pins (pegs), which are securely fixed in the ground, 30-40 cm of the pin should remain on top, which freely enters the pipe. If such a greenhouse (greenhouse) is covered with plastic wrap, then the ends are usually covered with plywood, timber or plastic, in which doors and vents are made for ventilation. If the arched structure is covered with polycarbonate, then the end sides are made from it.

Single-pitched and gable greenhouses are covered with both foil and polycarbonate. Such a heavy, fragile and expensive material like glass is less and less used for greenhouses and greenhouses in our summer cottages, which is not surprising.
Pipe structures are usually installed on a foundation or rigid base to add rigidity and stability to them due to the lightness of the material.

Video "Installation of a greenhouse from plastic pipes"

A step-by-step process of assembling a greenhouse from plastic pipes with your own hands in a summer cottage

How to build a flexible pipe greenhouse

Arched greenhouses and greenhouses are usually made by hand from flexible pipes with a diameter of at least 20 mm. In order to build such a greenhouse, you need to take:

• metal pins with a diameter of 10-12 mm and a length of 50-75 cm;
• a plastic pipe with walls 3 mm thick;
• plastic clamps for connection;
• aluminum fasteners to attach the arches to the wooden frame;
• polyethylene film for covering;
• planks to help secure the film.

The amount of materials must be accurately calculated according to the drawing, which will inevitably have to be done if we want to assemble the structure with our own hands. You will also have to purchase a wooden beam for door frames, vents, hinges for hanging opening doors, nails, locks, screws. At the most convenient place for the greenhouse, you need to mark its position, along the line of the long walls with a sledgehammer, hammer metal rods into the ground, leaving 30-40 cm outside.

Now you need to put the pipe on opposite pins and attach it to the wooden frame with metal brackets. This is how all arches are performed, and the more often they are located, the more stable the entire structure will be. If the frame is made for polycarbonate, then the step is commensurate with the size of the sheet, polycarbonate will make the greenhouse (greenhouse) heavier, more stable and just stiffer. And if the coating is supposed to be made of film, then the more often the step, the more stable the greenhouse, the less the polyethylene will walk, and, therefore, it will be used longer.

Now it is necessary to assemble the end walls, insert doorways, vents, additional fragments of wood for the rigidity of the frame. After that, the upper tie of the arched structure is installed. It passes along the highest points of all arches, is attached to them with polymer clamps.

The finished frame is covered with a film, placing it in such a way that pieces of the same length remain from the ends. They fix it with planks, press the film with them and nail them to a wooden frame on one long side. Moreover, you need to start from the middle, not from the corners. After the film has been fixed on one side, it is evenly straightened and the same is done on the other long side: the boards are nailed, starting from the middle and moving towards the corners.

At the ends, the film is collected in folds and nailed. Doors and vents covered with foil are hung in advance. If the ends are also film, then the film under the doors and vents is cut out so that there is enough left to fix it on the bar. This is a simple scheme for constructing an inexpensive greenhouse (or greenhouse) with your own hands, using plastic pipes. Starting from it, you can create something of your own individual, more aesthetic, pretentious or suitable for a specific area.

Some people do not use planks to fix polyethylene, instead they take a furniture stapler. Someone else adds ribs at the ends for stiffness, and many make the ends of an opaque but stiff material. That's the beauty of building something with your own hands - you can give free rein to imagination and choose the most acceptable from a variety of options. Flexible plastic pipes in this case are the most suitable material.

Using rigid pipes

Rigid plastic pipes are usually used for the construction of single-slope, wall-mounted and gable greenhouses. Using fittings, the frame can be assembled without gluing, which is convenient for greenhouses that are used temporarily. Rigid pipes are connected with polymer tees or couplings, covered with plastic wrap or polycarbonate - all options are good. The only thing that cannot be done when using plastic pipes is glazing. It is impractical to use glass in a frame made of PVC or HDPE pipes.

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