Coroplast greenhouse! :)

[Xist]

They have several products!

The sheets are 6mm thick, so about a quarter inch.

[Xist]

I don't currently see clients on Thursdays, but my brother had a meeting.

I just thought that I could wipe off the Ospho, but the paint was peeling.

I had also promised myself to change the oil in the Camries on Luther Vandross's birthday, but Walmart only had $10 filters.

AutoZone had oil and filter for $25, but they closed before I got there.

I wasn't driving to Walmart to buy $10 filters and change oil after dark.

I did that today.

Allegedly Walmart would have charged $20.

Yeah.

After I changed the oil I removed most of the paint and hopefully some of the rust, but I did not prime, paint, and install it.

I did not install the small brackets or the sheets of coroplast.

[Xist]

I saw 7 clients, worked with my brother, installed the brackets, cleaned, primed, and painted the braces, but did not install them or the coroplast.

Uh guys?

I installed the studs 20" OC.

That was a mistake.

I am thinking that I will wrap the greenhouse sideways. Otherwise each sheet would be attached to 2 studs, but unless I trim each and every sheet, they wouldn't join on a stud, and I am positive those joints would flex out.

I could install fire breaks, but would one line be adequate?

Installing them sideways would halve the floating joints, but then I would have a horizontal seam 4' up.

Fire break?!

I always see fire breaks offset, which would be easier, but then I would only be able to screw one panel to each fire break.

Do I need H-channels where the panels join on a seam?

Isn't that why we have caulk?!

[freebeard]

Uh guys?

H-channel in the vertical seams and just overlap the horizontal seam?

[Xist]

With one gasketed screw attaching the top of the bottom panel and the bottom of the top panel?!

[freebeard]

Double-sided tape in the overlap?

[Xist]

Scotch tape or 3m mounting tape?

I was thinking clear caulk.

[freebeard]

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the ...suggestion.

[Xist]

Ah. Good thing I killed time waiting for a follow-up.

[Xist]

My laser thermometer says the ground is 10° warmer inside.


I installed the braces and then installed the coroplast on the roof first.

Since I didn't make 16" OC rafters I lined up one sheet with the third and third-to-last rafters, so they hang over about 5.5", and then I installed the middle sheet, hanging over a couple inches on each side.

I tried to trim the overhang in the back, but it was pushing up against the bushes, so I couldn't get in between and use a straightedge.

I did a real hack job.

Whenever I have seen people refer to clear duct tape they referred to simple packaging tape and deserved to be slapped, but apparently it exists, so I will order a roll and use it to seal the roof to the sides, especially in the back--on the inside and the outside!

The roof was difficult. I stood on the back of the garden box, held onto the roof, and reached as far as I could.

I may be 6'2" and have disproportionately-long arms, but reaching 32" up the back of the roof was only marginally possible, but I did lose my balance, and fall into the bushes.

My brother had a good laugh at that.

Brothers!

I also dropped my power tools a couple of times and Dad's old measuring tape into the bushes twice.

I lined up the first sheet for the walls on the middle of the right side of the doorway and around the left side, but since I didn't make 16" OC studs it didn't reach the first stud.

I installed the lower 3 screws and pushed a 2x4 against the side of the corner stud to fold it, but it didn't fold straight.

Of course.

I decided to screw the next board right on the corner, so the two sheets overlapped, and then I folded it around the corner, but I didn't want to try bending it with Dad's old bushes back there, so I temporarily mounted it to the other side, bent the corner, removed it, flipped it around, and mounted it on the far side.

I needed to measure first.

It turns out that the close side is narrower.

What monkey is responsible for that?!

I mounted the third piece on the back corner and then overlapped it with the next and bent it.

I barely fit between the greenhouse and the bushes and they kept scraping me!

Since I overlapped the sheets I ended up with a gap, so I put in a fifth sheet.

I also should have measured before the sheets on the walls. I ended up with a 36.5" gap in the front and a 12.5" gap in the back.

I want an overlap, not a gap!

The leftover from the fifth sheet will cover the last space in the front and another 8".

The sixth sheet will overlap with it, but not on a stud.

Clear duct tape!

If I cut 5" off each side of the roof and 38.5" I can mount that in the front, overlapping 2", screw the rest onto the back, overlapping a couple of inches, and then overlap the leftovers from the roof another couple of inches.

You get clear duct tape and you get clear duct tape and you get clear duct tape!

The longer side is 77".

If I cut the seventh and final piece diagonally 16.5" on one side and 31.5" on the other it should overlap 7", then I just trim the short end.

I messed up a couple of times, but it should still work out!