Tallbacka in 2023 - part 4

PLANTGREENHOUSE

Ever since 2018, we have had a dream of a greenhouse with the ability to have delicate fruit trees in the garden such as apricot, peach and fig.

The blueprints for a winter greenhouse were approved in 2020, so the last opportunity for us was to start in the autumn of 2023. However, the estimated cost showed that it was not possible to build a winter greenhouse, so we slimmed down the plans to a plastic greenhouse. But we needed to begin in the spring of 2023 by removing the growing boxes that were from 2016. It turned out that the pallet collars closest to the ground had partially rotted, so they would have been replaced anyway. We took the soil and put it in a pile while we waited for construction to start.

In August we started to excavate the construction site and the area which was about 9 x 11 m. According to the plans the building itself was 4.60x 8 m with a ceiling height of 4.30. The surface was levelled with a gravel covering water pipes, electric cables and sewage pipes. The water and electricity connection was taken from the basement of the house. The foundation was laid with the ground anchors drilled into the ground. A wooden frame was fastened on them to which the roof trusses including wall beams were screwed. The inner ceiling beams were screwed to the ceiling trusses and both gables were given standing struts. (see picture and drawing).

The greenhouse plastic was applied towards the end of October. On October 20th the plastic was fixed with the help of aluminium strips on roof trusses and gable beams. The openings on the ventilation hatches in the roof were fixed and so we had to stop the work due to winter and cold weather. The hatches were delivered in November but are now waiting for better weather conditions.

In December the electricity was run to the greenhouse, but we did not have time to install the lighting. The boards for the protection of the handling of the plant and plugboards were screwed in as well as the boards for the sinks.

The doors on each side, as well as the ventilation hatches, will have to wait to be installed next year.