hey everybody my name is Sam and welcome back to Green acre homestead in today's
video I'm going to continue working on our DIY green house build project and
I'm going to be adding plastic to the long sides of the greenhouse and adding
some gutters to the roof to begin our rainwater harvesting system and get us a
little bit further along on this project overall our method for rolling the
plastic out was the same we used before we kind of rolled it out in the backyard
measured on one edge and then the other - 17 feet which for our greenhouse the
actual framing itself is 16 feet so give us a foot overhang a little extra wiggle
room there laid it out this time I used a PVC pipe as my straight edge marked it
with a marker and then cut it with a pair of scissors so throw this whole
build and design phase with this greenhouse I've had in my head I've
always known that the key to this structure actually working for us is for
it to be convertible what I mean by that is it needs to be able to open and close
itself to the environment to regulate the temperature to allow for certain
environmental variables and things of the sort so that it's the most useful
structure that it can be for us here in North Carolina we have a very long
growing season which equates to a large part of the year we don't really need a
closed-in let's hold the heat in structure to grow vegetables that being
said I knew we had to have solutions in place to ventilate and open this thing
up to the elements and the fresh air with that in mind I've always had the
plans of making the long wall be able to roll up and open up kind of like hoop
houses do a lot of hoop houses will have long pipes that go on the sides allow
you to twist them up and open the sides and that's exactly what I was doing here
with the greenhouse with the sides secure it in place with the wooden
strips I'm going to go ahead and skip ahead and go ahead and start building
the crank system it's going to allow us to crank and roll
up the sides of the greenhouse I'm making this all out of one-inch PVC
plumbing parts so pipes elbows and a couple of connectors it's gonna be
pretty easy to do I got a one inch PVC pipe here it's a schedule 40 and I've
got a coupler because the greenhouse is being about 16 feet long is longer than
these 10-foot long pipes so I'm going blue a coupler here and connect the two
pipes together to make one large pipe I don't glue myself or get glue almost
up rather
there we go don't have to worry about it being watertight of course you just want
these two stuck together now optionally you could choose to maybe just drill
holes and screw these two together but I'm going with glue because glue won't
rip the plastic and I'm just confident that it's going to work I guess next
step is to go ahead and cut this to length I make it myself about a hand
width overhang maybe a little bit less
go and now I'm going to glue on a couple of elbows to turn this into a crank
handle
at least hold it there yeah it's not perfect I guess it would work a lot
better with chain link top rail the metal I guess so it wouldn't it will X
as much yeah and I guess we can get that in the future I can always use this PVC
otherwise so the crank system is not a hundred percent awesome perfect
wonderful yay let's high-five each other and you know claim that we invented
something awesome but it works and that's kind of the main point of it does
it work yes okay you did good is it fabulous are you gonna win awards
no well it's okay cuz it works so I decided not to make the back wall
which is the other long wall of the greenhouse convertible my thought
process behind this is because the majority of our wind comes in line with
our greenhouse it comes up the hill and goes on back behind me as you see here
not having this long wall which is parallel to the majority of our winds
and ventilation not having that open wouldn't really stop any airflow and
really wouldn't make that much of a difference for ventilation add to that
the fact that I will have both the front and the back ends open and ventilate and
the other wall completely open and ventilate as well I'm not worried about
this thing building up too much heat or I'm not worried about this one wall not
opening really just throwing this whole system down the tubes another benefit of
this wall not opening and closing is it allows me to use it kind of more as I
don't know a wall in the greenhouse I'm able to put myself a little shelf in the
corner and I can put things there that normally I would be concerned about
getting wet from storm blow by and such like that I can keep it here store it
and I can oh it'll be dry and kind of safe in addition to that this wall here
doesn't block anything it doesn't block access to our other parts of the garden
it doesn't cast extra shade on any kind of garden beds it is literally just a
couple of feet off of a fence line and that's it so if any wall of this green
house to be solid and to not open or do anything
was the right one I've got this back wall plastic held in place with the same
wood little strips or clips what I'm going to next is use this stapler kind
of a hammer stapler and I'm going to attach the plastic to the top of the
wall I'm not going to nail through the roof plastic that overhangs it but I'm
lifted up and now the wall plastic down so that it's really secure and flush but
also because I need fasteners that don't protrude any so that I can go ahead and
put the gutter on this side as well so let's go ahead and do that
staples have that held up there pretty good right now next thing I want to do
is go and put on my gutter brackets it's a little item right there these are all
plastic gutter system and they're design so you put the brackets up and then the
gutter slides on it and it's hidden from below nothing that really matters on a
greenhouse but it's pretty cool I wasn't looking for any kind of special kind of
gutters when I went to the store I just wanted something that was white and
cheap and this was the cheapest option they had it's actually just about the
only option they had because either this or traditional aluminum gutters and I
figured the plastic would hold up better because it's gonna be flexible and as he
gets hit by anything or stings life in general happens I think or hope that
it's gonna hold up better to the elements
as far as the wood strips yes they are unpainted they are raw wood and that's
what they're going to be for now I will come back and so long as this system
works and I don't come up with any kind of major reason that I need to change it
I'm gonna come back with painted wood strips and add that in later to be a
much more permanent system but for now as I'm still learning and things are
evolving this is good enough for me and I'm not doing anything that I'm
gonna regret later and I'm not kind of painting myself into a corner so to
speak by spending the time to do kind of elaborate attachment methods and
hardware and all this stuff and possibly come back in the future and change it
maybe I will maybe I won't but either way it's good enough for now it's good
enough to call it done it will take a very very long time for this wood to rot
out because none of it's going to be standing in water yes so they'll be
exposed to the elements but it's going to take a long time for wood to rot in
this kind of situation so back out here today and I'm dodging rainstorms this is
definitely the rainy season out here but I've got to put some seal it between the
gutters and the greenhouse roof because the way this greenhouse is designed
there's no overhang so you got your bracket the holes of gutter and spaces
it off just enough for most of the water to run down the roof and right down the
side and miss the gutter totally so I picked up the tube of this Lexel this is
really really good stuff it's not cheap this was six dollars but this is
hands-down the best kind of outdoor sealant waterproof flexible awesome
stuff so I'm gonna run a bead of this between the gutter lip and the
greenhouse and effectively create a rubber seal to collect and direct the
water where I want it to go which is in the gutter
all right in theory that stuff is rain ready immediately so we're gonna test
the theory I just finished putting the whole bead on this side of the
greenhouse so let's watch and see
all right welcome to the roof here I will show you my process since I skipped
out on these brackets which you know shame on me there's a little bit of
longer span between brackets and there should be and the gutter kind of waves
so I'm putting these screws through the gutter pinning it to the greenhouse roof
to draw it back and then I'm laying a Beetle exhale down so check it out
I tell you I do like this PVC or plastic gutter because it's really flexible so
you can really like smoosh your drill into it everything that pops back unlike
the aluminum would just explode or dent I guess it would then it wouldn't really
explode oh it get a kill you it'd be cool to explode pushed it too hard out
of the way
there we go looking good
the gutters are done they're all sealed up that Lexel stuff like I said is
expensive but it works great it's immediately waterproof and we got to
test that and see it on the other side so it looks great I did tweak the angle
of the gutters here to make sure they drain as best as they can be done I mean
I did put it up there a little bit uneven kind of dipped in the middle and
then the joint in the middle kind of messed it up some but I got it pretty
good definitely good enough for a greenhouse and definitely good enough
for state work well guys I don't know about you but I'm really pleased with
this outcome even though this long wall didn't exactly make the awesome perfect
cranked up and down you know wow look at you type system as you can see it is up
it is clamped in place and it is not moving anywhere even though we've had
some serious storms come through I did put a wood clamp on the middle wall stud
I don't think you can see it maybe either way I clamped the pipe to the
wall stud and that really really helped lock everything together and was perfect
for the really bad storms that we've had roll through the past couple of days so
consider that would clamp a permanent addition and if you're looking to do
something similar give that a thought consider doing something like that as
well it's nice that it's just a clamp you just twist on by hand because as you
roll the sides up and down wherever you want to go that clamp can follow and
holds it tight and you're good to go as for this solid wall I'm really happy
with how that turned out but honestly the thing that I'm most excited and
happy about are the gutters I think they turned out really really well especially
for this complete amateur to put gutters on I am by no means a gutter expert or
any really good at doing that but they turned out pretty good we did get a lot
of rain showers today and I was able to watch them in action
they did perfect they funneled and chugged the water out of their
downspouts and the whole time it was going I'm like oh just hang on guys just
hang on I got some plans to go ahead and put my rain barrel systems together and
soon we'll be harvesting water to save for the garden well everyone I hope you
enjoyed this video hopefully you got something out of it maybe you got some
tips and tricks for things to do on your place whether or not you're building a
green house maybe you're doing some gutter work maybe you're curious about
Revlon a collection or you just want to see a guy do some stuff in a garden and
see what's what down here in North Carolina by the way I'm glad to have you
here thanks for watching if you have any questions or comments things I didn't
cover in this video you're curious about leave me a comment down below I read all
of them and I try to respond to every one as well so ask me there we'll chat
there and otherwise we'll see you next time on the homestead
take care