I need some help. I bought this aluminum frame greenhouse off Amazon but am now finding it doesn’t have much in a way to keep the sucker on the ground in high winds.
The only thing I know to do is buy some 2x4s to make a floor frame out of and metal plates to anchor to the wood. Then use the wood frame to tie everything down to the ground with stakes.
I don’t want a full floor and would rather use the ground as the floor of the greenhouse. I could really use some advice. Pics of greenhouse to show lack of anchor points
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by heyyoubigstar3
7 Comments
Get these: [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08C1YTXJ7](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08C1YTXJ7)
At each corner, drill a horizontal hole through the bottom of the frame, and secure something through those holes to the ground screws.
[These will help](https://www.lowes.com/pd/30-in-Mobile-Home-Anchor/3438356)
Imbed a threaded bolt into a hole full of concrete in each corner
Planting benches attached to the framing will do it. You will need them anyway.
https://preview.redd.it/muqa7epil8zb1.jpeg?width=1161&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=56200c5be969aeb8c21640a45d70feb06b7b5554
I put mine on 4x4s. No floor on the interior. Then I used clear gorilla tape on the outside seams on the entire thing. Took about 20 minutes to do that part. It has withstood super intense winds (60-80mph gusts), snow, rain, etc with that tape and the 4x4s. The entire thing shifted almost a foot in the last storm this past winter from the wind but everything stayed secured. No panels lost. It also made a move in a POD thanks to that 4×4 base. Very secure. And it gave me an additional couple inches of headroom.
https://preview.redd.it/k74ak428f9zb1.jpeg?width=1816&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3663b466817ede1bf4346e1376ec9d13ba65321b
I did the same thing. A frame of 4x4s on 2 ft 4x4posts dug into the ground and backfilled with concrete and the old soil replaced and tamped down well. Still got more gravel to dump and tamp down
God damn that thing is dope. Mine is the green canvas pop up kind but THIS is the dream 😂