Diy Polytunnel Guttering

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Diy polytunnel guttering.

Collecting rainwater is an easy cost effective way of ensuring you can always keep watering. To ensure rainwater runs directly into the gutter a series of timber battens we used 19mm x 38mm pressure treated battens may be required to close off any gaps between the guttering and the side rail. See more ideas about greenhouse greenhouse gardening veg garden. Tape the gutters in a v shape above a barrel with the ends.

All you need are some basic diy skills and some willing helpers four people is ideal. It can be fitted to a timber side rail on your new or existing polytunnel. They are shaped like a little gutter if you turn them upside down and are much cheaper than commercial polytunnel gutter kits. Here is a guide on fixing proper polytunnel guttering to your tunnel and harvesting more rain.

Coloured tape blocks light and heats up in the sun shortening the life of your plastic. There are a few ways that you can harvest water from a polytunnel but to fill a sizeable water container you re going to need something more substantial. Choose a warm day to install the cover. You should now have a strong robust alternative for harvesting rainwater off your polytunnel.

Clean the plastic well and use transparent tunnel repair tape. It provides an independent water supply during regional water restrictions ensuring you can keep your plants. The gutter is installed at the top of the straight side of the polytunnel hoop where the curve starts. Or if you don t have a timber side rail and your polythene is trenched or fixed to a base rail we supply an extruded aluminium backing profile.