For a long time I never thought that I would get to say this.  To get this far required two trips to Wales, one to Wigan and a few to B&Q to sort out the base (the design of which literally kept me awake at night).  We’ve been lugging bits of it around the plot for months.  Every time the glass settled somewhere we had to move it. We had it in pallets, but needed those for the fence. We decided on a nice bit by the concrete bays – until the guy that delivers the manure crashed into them and smashed some glass.  We moved them in the frame, but then had to move them to build the base.  Every time we moved them we broke some panes.  It came with no instructions and plenty of missing bits. We also decided to start glazing it during the coldest week of the coldest December for years.  And now.  The. Greenhouse. Is. Almost. Done.

It’s true! Look:

We have a working door and every bit of glass we have has been cleaned to within an inch of it’s life by Pilla.  We started the day today by taking out some of the panes we had previously put in (all to do with having the little pieces at the bottom – don’t know if that’s important or not?) which was frustrating – but ended the day having all but 15 pieces done.  And, fingers crossed, the rest should be straightforward.

So far we have put in 82 panes of glass.  We don’t quite have enough glass to do the rest, we are about 3 little panes short – not bad at all.  We might even be able to deal with that by lots of overlapping panes.

To make me feel better, here is what it looked like when we first got it:

 So now we need to deal with staging for inside and we’ll be all set to grow.  It almost felt spring-like today – it was sunny, warm and there were lots of people about.  You can almost sense the ‘it’s almost spring, we’d better get things sorted’ feeling running through the place!