A thread to document the Harbor Freight Greenhouses: How to build them. How to strengthen them so that they actually work. How to use them.
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Here's a
time lapse photograph taken once per hour starting after 3 hours. Eleven hours labor have been put into the greenhouse so far.
So far the build is going smoothly. It's my second time erecting this model, so it's going quickly. One of the beams was cut 1.25 inches short at the factory. That caused troubles at every stage of the build until we were putting the roof panels on and noticed that one of them didn't fit right. So I wasted an hour measuring what was wrong, getting the spacing right, and drilling new holes. Aargh! The joint isn't as strong as it would have otherwise been, but it should hold up ok.
Here's what the error looked like when we finally got it corrected. Those two beams are supposed to join together snuggly. That big gap is not right.
Winter is coming... Getting the roof on just in time so that I can have a dry spot to work in if it rains or snows tomorrow.