polytunnel over pond

[birthandyman]

Hi all looking at covering the pond for winter thinking of a polytunnel around 15x12 feet to cover the pond and still be able to see and do maintenance anyone know of any bargains ? in the west midlands birmingham area been looking around ebay ect looking around the £250-£400 gonna be a cold winter me reckons don't want to go the heater route

[vippymini]

hubby built ours for approx £100.
[img]http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/vippy ... CF2310.jpg[/img]
its 15x10 so nearly the size you want.
the wood and tube should be around £50. and the plastic was £50. (cash) at a local plastics company ( they supply the stuff to the trade.)

go on, why buy it when you can build it.

[TicToc]

Nice one Vippymini. It still looks an excellent polytunnel.

BTW what bendy plastic size did he use for the radius?

Aye

TicToc

[vippymini]

you probably won't believe me, but it is 1.5" push fit pipe. 2 off 3m lengths joined together with a piece of pipe hubby had thats a tight fit inside it.

[TicToc]

Jane - 1.5inch and a tight fit inside Did he...did he ... did he heat it first to help it bend

Tickers

[vippymini]

nope there was no heat necessary

[wilf]

hi guys these are my covers, what do you think?

[img]http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s65/wilfa9/PB020114.jpg[/img]

[img]http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s65/wilfa9/PB020115.jpg[/img]

[img]http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s65/wilfa9/PB020117.jpg[/img]

[img]http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s65/wilfa9/PB020121.jpg[/img]

[ageinghippy]

Very tidy job Gary/Wilf, gives me a bit of inspiration.

You dont say, but it looks like you made up several panels and then clipped them together. That would make summer storage a bit easier too. Neat !!!



Chris (another one)

[wilf]

you got it in one chris, several panels screwed together then come spring unscrew and store in the roof space of the pegola .

[Gazza]

Hi Gary,

Great job mate and as you know i am thinking of trying to do something with enclosing my pond

There is also these guys who build them to mesure:

http://www.aquatunnels.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;