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Well, we worked on the greenhouse again yesterday, and little by little we keep inching closer to getting the outside buttoned up.
We got the two layers of plastic pulled on the roof, and the fan installed to keep the two layers blown up…basically the roof is like a big balloon. This is to help in insulating the building. We used a clear plastic underneath and then used a white plastic on top. This is to help knock down the sun’s rays, and keep it from getting so hot.
The white plastic cuts down the sun by 50%. We also are installing shade cloth on the inside of the side curtains as well. This too will knock down the sunlight too, plus it’ll help keep out bugs when the curtains are rolled up. Also it will help to knock the breeze down some when heavy winds are blowing. It doesn’t stop it, but it will help to.
We have a good friend, Bobby, who has some greenhouses in Virginia, and his statement to me was simply that we won’t have to worry about keeping it heated down here as much as we’ll need help with…the heat of the summer.
Billy, our buddy who found, and is helping us put this up agrees wholeheartedly, and this is the reasoning for the shade cloth and white plastic roofing.
We added an extra run of lock strips below the lock strip for the roof. They claim you can get three layers of plastic locked into each run of lock strip, but since we had plenty, we just ran another run. This enables us to lock our two roof plastics into a lock strip, then we can lock our curtains into their own locks.
We still lack one side of curtain. We were shorted one side, and the man Billy got the greenhouse from forgot to order the other side. So, he ordered them yesterday and we’ll have them next week. We still need to hang our doors, which we’ll have to cut down height wise, but this is no problem. We’ve reached the point we’re redneck engineering! LOL!!
We can now though go ahead and hang the shade cloth on the remaining side, possibly start some of the beds, start running irrigation, and running electric to the building. Then sometime next week we’ll be able to button her up.
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‘Ridin Out The Recession With Dub and Deb in “Miz Judi’s Kitchen’!
Note to Readers: There are a few things that Dub doesn’t know but one thing he does know is that the word ‘Riding’ (as in Riding Out the Recession) is spelled with a ‘g’ at the end. But Dub not only walks the walk, but speaks like he is: down home, true blue, and plain speakin’ country folk.
Dub and Deb are both native Floridians, live in Central Florida, and run a small business as well. They have five children, and seven grandchildren.
Both love to cook, love to laugh, grow a garden, and generally try to “aggravate” most anyone around them basically…all in good fun, of course!
