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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Troubled Waters on June 24, 2009, 08:08:04 pm

Title: Greenhouses...grrrrrr
Post by: Troubled Waters on June 24, 2009, 08:08:04 pm

So my mum bought me a greenhouse for my birthday in April.  We have had the frame up for a while but only got round to unpacking the glass on Sunday, only to find 9 broken panes.   >:(  Of course to late to get anything for them, my fault but i didn't want to unpack it to check as we knew it was going to be a while before we could put it up and didn't want to risk damage in the meantime.

Anyways, yest we picked up some replacement panes and got stuck in.  OMG, how much of a faff are those stupid wire clip thingys???  It's taken ages just to get quarter of them up and still broke another two panes.  Are we being completely incompetent or are they really that hard?   ???

So moral of the story is....next time I ask for a greenhouse hubby is gonna buy me a polytunnel!  ;D

Title: Re: Greenhouses...grrrrrr
Post by: sellickbhoy on June 24, 2009, 10:11:55 pm

i'm hoping to gt started on putting together the 2 i picked up as freebies form gumtree in teh next week or so

no instructions either - and one of them is a double glazed monster of a thing!! can't wait!!

Title: Re: Greenhouses...grrrrrr
Post by: Troubled Waters on June 25, 2009, 01:02:41 pm

eeek, don't envy you that!  was hard enough with instructions.  And we needed about 6 hands each.  we spent over an hour just looking for the anchor pegs, going through all the parts list, only to find them right at the end as the pic showed them bent when in use and they were straight in the box.  :dunce:

i wish u well.   i shall look for a blue haze up your way as i seem to remember a similar one our way with all the cursing...