Greenhouse question

[Mac]

Hi All, I've been offered a 2nd hand greenhouse too! Not new in a box, but hopefully complete and useable. We have an area in our garden which is level and covered in chuckies. Would this be ok to put the GH on directly or would we be better putting slabs down on top of these under the frame bit and then having an area in the middle just on top of the chuckies for a "draining" area?

[chris]

Chuckies? Like the scary doll??

[Windy-Sindy]

If you put down some slabs or wooden sleepers to make a base around the edge, you would have something to attach the greenhouse to.

If it is just sitting on chuckies, it might blow away in high winds

I'm not an expert though. Just a thought.

[Mac]

Chuckies? Like the scary doll??

yup....hundreds of the little bliters, all lying in rows.....

[zazen999]

Mac - I've taken your query out of the thread it was posted in and given it a thread all of it's own so that you can get some answers.

[chris]

Still not sure what they are, but I'm going down the ecobase route. It works out at £6.50 per grid, delivered with the membrane, and ties/clips to hold the base down. It needs filling with pea shingle and after asking if it'd take the weight of a heavy greenhouse..

Hi Chris

The EcoBase 50 can carry 150 tonnes per m2 , we do have a heavy duty EcoBase 80 which can carry 365 tonnes per m2 which is £8.95 per unit. Both grids will do the job. They were designed to carry fully laden HGV’s.

The ecobase 50 is the product you see on their site, and I've had two quotes, both coming out at £6.50/grid

Dunno if that helps you or not, but if chuckies is pea gravel or similar then that's possibly one option.

[chris]

[or if it's those dolls, if you feed them they may hold onto the GH base for you ]

[zazen999]

I don't know what chuckies are either.

I'm sure more info will follow......so that people can assist.

[Bren In Pots]

Me me me I know what chuckies are well I do now thanks to google.

Chuckies - small stones or pebbles.... example "I've got a pile of chuckies in the garden"

[Snadger]

Me me me I know what chuckies are well I do now thanks to google.

Chuckies - small stones or pebbles.... example "I've got a pile of chuckies in the garden"

I thought chuckies were chooks i.e Chickens!

[Bigmallly]

I thought chuckies were chooks i.e Chickens!

Me too but was too embarrassed to ask why chickens were being kept in greenhouse....................we live & learn.

[Windy-Sindy]

I knew what they were! Even used the word in a sentence

Do you have an answer yet, Mac?

[Mac]

Well done Bren...I was referring to small stones/gravel....and not small scary dolls....!! What do you all call them? We have the nasty pink variety (already in garden when bought house) which is why we're planning on trying to cover them with the greenhouse!

[broadway]

Well done Bren...I was referring to small stones/gravel....and not small scary dolls....!! What do you all call them? We have the nasty pink variety (already in garden when bought house) which is why we're planning on trying to cover them with the greenhouse!

MAC,

Do you refer to them as chuckie's as they are just chucked down?

I have used a term for years my nan uses, she calls kitchen roll "polly roll", anyone else use this?

[Bren In Pots]

Well done Bren...I was referring to small stones/gravel....and not small scary dolls....!! What do you all call them?

Mac we call the small stuff pea gravel then just gravel if its a bit bigger, Some others stuffs get called chippings and they are small rough stone pieces.

Have you decided how to fix your greenhouse down yet ? I think we over did it with the greenhouse my next door neighbour gave me first we laid a concrete footing then a row of breeze blocks and topped that off with tanalised lathes the greenhouse was fixed to the lot with long screws.

broadway I've not heard of "polly roll" is it just your nan that calls it that.