Homemade Hinged Hot House!!!!!

Jun 8, 2017 22:39:53 GMT 10 Peter said:

I didn't watch the 21 minutes of video, but the image at the start which showed it looks most interesting. Not difficult to make, but for one thing: Here in Perth we have massive problems with termites.

I don't like using treated pine anywhere near food being grown, and pretty much everything except for jarrah and kwila (merbau) is susceptible to termites, but they're too expensive. Yes, I could make it out of plastic/fibreglass/carbon fibre (yeah, like that's viable), but for those who don't have access to these materials, what would you make it from?

The lower bed can be made out of anything. All my raised beds in perth were colorbond kits, like so:

Bricks, hebel blocks... even old fridge/cool room panels can make good garden beds (I've seen this done a lot in aquaponics)

I'd make the top frame out of aluminium RHS can just use aluminium angle and rivets to join it all together or weld it if you have the gear. If you need it done quick, lazy & temporary you can get those clip together plastic joining pieces really cheap and can build most things out of them (see below). An aluminium strip across the bed would be sufficient to connect the hinges to.