Erecting greenhouse with no base?

[kirsty b]

I have bought an 8x6 greenhouse (2nd hand), but the base fell to bits while I was dismantling and was totally unusable.

I still want to use the greenhouse, but cannot justify the £70 odd (more?) to buy a new base so I have come up with an idea.

Lay pallets down (OH seems to think I will need about 6), I have got some lengths of steel bent in a 90deg angle and OH is going to drill holes along both sides at 12" intervals. Screw one side to pallets to secure, and screw GH frame to the holes along the other side.

Underneath the pallets I was going to lay black plastic as a weed suppressant. Inside GH I was going to have some slabs going up the middle as a) a path and b) extra weight to help keep it on the ground if we get high wind.

So peeps, have I missed something crucial, or have I had an idea that might just work?
Advice/helpful suggestions greatly appreciated
Kirsty

[stephenwithap]

kirsty you maybe better using concrete blocks instead of pallets the measurements of them are 18 x 9 x 4 if you lay them flat you can put greenhouse on top of them and screw down with wot they call anchor bolts you could even use the heavier version of these blocks which are 18 x 9 x 6 known as 6inch solid blocks if you put greenhouse on 0these will be hard to blow away in strong winds
ask at your local builders merchants
i work in one but alas not near you lol

[kirsty b]

Thanks for the advice

Trouble is I'm fairly skint thanks to a failed MOT and needing spares to get the motor legal (for that read, none spare beyond necessities now), and am looking at getting it up affordably, and pallets I can get hold of for nothing.
Unless, I look into bashing some stakes into the ground (about a foot deep)next to said pallets and put some nice big screws through the stakes into the pallets using my OH's battery drill.
Once its up, I could look into making some sort of windbreak/shade provider on the side where the wind most often comes from.

Figuring this out is gonna be fun!

[King Carrot]

If it was me I'd bang 4 or 6 stakes into the ground as you suggested and use the biggest fixings/screws that I could find to fix to the GH frame itself - just to be on the safe side. I'd also get the stakes as deep as I could (to 2 foot if poss) and replace them with round iron rods next year/year after as the wood will rot very quickly in the ground.

Good luck with the project.

[Flobalob]

I guess the most important part of erecting a greenhouse is the base. It needs to be of course flat & level. If this is not adhered to you might have problems when fitting the frame/glass.
Laying it on pallets might come back to haunt you. The pallets will surely rot,leading to the weight of the greenhouse being stressed in one particular place, which in turn would almost certainly fracture the glass panels.
I would go with the block idea mentioned above. Only to add to that is you will require something between blocks & glass...maybe a cut hose pipe.