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    Greenhouse glass panes

    Where do people get glass panes from for their greenhouse. I assumed you would just walk in B&Q or Wicks but no.

    I know some of you like to potter around your greenhouse, so where do you get em from?

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    Originally posted by woohoo View Post
    Where do people get glass panes from for their greenhouse. I assumed you would just walk in B&Q or Wicks but no.

    I know some of you like to potter around your greenhouse, so where do you get em from?
    For glass, you need to go to a glazer, of which there are not that many left in the country. I use Leatherhead Glass: Glass Merchants Leatherhead, Glass Suppliers Tadworth, Glass Weybridge

    The big DIY stores only do plastic replacement sheets, which are good, but a bit of a pain to cut. I end up using a fine tooth hand saw, but you still might get cracks when cutting.

    Try https://www.yell.com/ucs/UcsSearchAc...ation=coventry (enter your own postcode) and see what it comes up with. Oh, and expect to pay quite a bit per pane.
    …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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      #3
      Originally posted by WTFH View Post
      For glass, you need to go to a glazer, of which there are not that many left in the country. I use Leatherhead Glass: Glass Merchants Leatherhead, Glass Suppliers Tadworth, Glass Weybridge

      The big DIY stores only do plastic replacement sheets, which are good, but a bit of a pain to cut. I end up using a fine tooth hand saw, but you still might get cracks when cutting.

      Try https://www.yell.com/ucs/UcsSearchAc...ation=coventry (enter your own postcode) and see what it comes up with. Oh, and expect to pay quite a bit per pane.
      Great thanks for this. But wow, really in this day and age. Do people not have greenhouses any more?

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        #4
        Originally posted by woohoo View Post
        Great thanks for this. But wow, really in this day and age. Do people not have greenhouses any more?
        Nope, they just go and buy things, don't grow them.
        A couple more weeks and I'll start to clear ours out in preparation for the tomatoes, then see if the un-killable rocket comes back to life and move the plants into the cold frame or some might even go into the ground.
        The garlic is up already and the trees are pruned, so next jobs will be digging over the veg beds and adding horse manure - I find that posts from the B***** forum are mostly fertiliser. After that it will be deciding what goes in.
        But the next job is to cover the rhubarb, which needs to be done this week.
        …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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          #5
          I replaced my last greenhouses panes with this stuff a couple of years ago.
          not from this company but similar.
          Might be worth a look.

          https://www.theplasticpeople.co.uk/u...house-glazing/

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            #6
            Originally posted by woohoo View Post
            Great thanks for this. But wow, really in this day and age. Do people not have greenhouses any more?
            Not since the greenhouse effect turned the UK into a Mediterranean climate, no.

            BBC NEWS | UK | Climate may turn UK Mediterranean

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              #7
              I went to my local glazier also. Has to be toughened glass.
              ...my quagmire of greed....my cesspit of laziness and unfairness....all I am doing is sticking two fingers up at nurses, doctors and other hard working employed professionals...

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                #8
                Always worth asking on Freecycle. Sort of thing people often keep lying around for years in case it comes in handy.
                bloggoth

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                  #9
                  I guess for a greenhouse, you don't need glass - it was only used historically as they had no other clear material handy. Plastic sheets or wrap are just as good if not better apart from aesthetics.

                  You can buy glass panes online easily, most glazers obviously sell double-glazing primarily but that's made from glass panes they can sell you. Some period houses still use single glazing after all.

                  But it sort of seems like most people get greenhouse glass from other people getting rid of theirs. We have an old hot-house (complete with downstairs boiler!) which needs a bunch of work. I am debating whether to just replace the broken panes, or have it glazed in a more house-like fashion without bits of glass butting up on each other. There's potential to use it as a garden office.
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