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How to Build a Glasshouse - Other Designs

This is a popular design, as it is easy to build, looks attractive. Footing for the house should be a strip of concrete approximately 300 mm wide by 150 mm deep poured flush with the ground or slain by above.

Timber plates 150 mm wide by 25 mm thick are bolted to the footing. Sloping rafters, 125 mm by 50 mm, are spaced to suit width of glass and glazing bars. Rafters are nailed to floor plates and to ridge section. Ends of glasshouse are framed in timber, the top gable sections are panelled with weatherboards.

Glazing bars are screwed to top of rafters and to studs forming the end walls. Standard horticultural glass is fitted into glazing bars. Ventilation is provided by a pair of hinged timber shutters held open by steel support rods.

Remember that it pays to use stock size horticultural glass so that replacement is easy in the event of hail damage.

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How to Build a Glasshouse

Other Designs

Glass / Brick House
Glasshouse with Shade House
A-frame Glasshouse
Glass & Brick Glasshouse
Another Glasshouse Design
Two Level Roof Glasshouse
Lean to Glasshouse