CrushnYuba
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EDIT: all the pictures in this thread got lost. will be trying to take new pictures to replace them. built a heated 12x40 veg house and a 20x60 auto depp. wanted to show how easy it was to build pro steel greenhouses on the cheap. No reason for anyone to be manually pulling tarps in this day and age.
Wanted to do a quick thread on building steel frame hoop greenhouses. They are cheap and permanent. Won't blow away in the wind or rot. They can be made to be auto light depps pretty cheap and easy as well.
Pvc has no rigidity.it's flimsy, warps in sun. Won't hold it's shape. It will also rot your polyethylene cover material of the poly and pvc come in contact and it WILL come in contact. This makes pvc a temporary structure and pvc is Damn expensive to be a temporary structure. Steel tubing is not much more.
I bend hoops made of 10 ft 1 3/8th tubing. This is what most professional kits are made out of. The building materials and process is the same weather you buy a 8k$ kit from a greenhouse company or if you diy and buy components separately.
I will try to do as much of a complete build it as possible. It's in my spare time.
0906172237 by Yuba Crushin, on Flickr
inside of the auto depp.
0907170917 by Yuba Crushin, on Flickr
12x40
0907170917b by Yuba Crushin, on Flickr
pellet stove
Wanted to do a quick thread on building steel frame hoop greenhouses. They are cheap and permanent. Won't blow away in the wind or rot. They can be made to be auto light depps pretty cheap and easy as well.
Pvc has no rigidity.it's flimsy, warps in sun. Won't hold it's shape. It will also rot your polyethylene cover material of the poly and pvc come in contact and it WILL come in contact. This makes pvc a temporary structure and pvc is Damn expensive to be a temporary structure. Steel tubing is not much more.
I bend hoops made of 10 ft 1 3/8th tubing. This is what most professional kits are made out of. The building materials and process is the same weather you buy a 8k$ kit from a greenhouse company or if you diy and buy components separately.
I will try to do as much of a complete build it as possible. It's in my spare time.
![](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4406/36700385850_66242a0c94.jpg)
inside of the auto depp.
![](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4382/36925746422_54fbcae833.jpg)
12x40
![](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4335/36260989414_8a0c769ed1.jpg)
pellet stove
![QN6T9Qr.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/QN6T9Qr.jpg)
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