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As the title says folks, I need to put gutters on our recently erected greenhouse. I have had a browse of the t'interweb and have found very little helpful, as most pages seemed to talk about new greenhouses with gutters built in - our greenhouse must be older than those
Here's a pic showing how the roof overlaps the sidewalls
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As it's an aluminium greenhouse, on most of the struts there's a channel where you can put square headed bolts so you can bolt things on - at the end of each of the roof struts there's a wotsit bolted in to stop the roof glass slipping down
Anyone got any ideas? Have you managed to mount guttering on a similar greenhouse?
Can't you just bolt a standard gutter bracket to the uprights? If not some bent bits of ali will do the same job.
Can't you just bolt a standard gutter bracket to the uprights?
Not from what I can see, they're quite thin then you view them from the side. I suppose I could drill through them and fix something that way but TBH I think I'd struggle making the brackets, I'm not a great person when it comes to that kind of stuff
Anyone else from the morning crowd have any ideas?
can I ask why?
Drill a couple of hoes through the frame and gutter and cable tie.
I'm at work - and pics don't display
anyway
1 - mount gutter on wooden/etc posts to take weight and fix to frame
2 - can you hang gutter off wire etc across roof so load is on ally
3 - can you put something under the glasspanes like a thin flat metal S or U hook that you could sit gutter on
4 - can you use stainless wire from bolts on mount channels to make a hanger - maybe from end glass stop bolt - ditto with any other hanger shapes
Add a wooden post front and rear and run one length of gutter per side. Looks like you've only got a 6 foot run so should be fine.
bruneep - Membercan I ask why?
Why what? Why run gutters? To collect the rainwater in a water butt to use when watering the plants.
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Cheers, your thinking more or less mirrors mine, all ideas I've considered, just the implementation I'm worrying about, I'm not great at fabricating
[b]Murray[/b], interesting thought, that hadn't occurred.