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No idea! it's been years since i built it.

The pipes are old pipes from fisheries.

Yes one sheet across. The heat escapes thru the doors and windows. No these are high quality poly carbonate sheets.

Hi, I can't remember how much it cost. But there is a price list on the polycrub website. We built/installed it ourselves.

Thanks for your comment - glad it helped and hope you are enjoy your watering system.

Thank you. Yes I can't wait to sample my produce this year. There is something so satisfying about growing your own food from seed.

bit late but 10mm twin wall poly 1050mm x7000mm from varico

You’re welcome 👍

Thanks 😃

Thanks. I used this tool www.powertoolworld.co.uk/milwaukee-m12-fmt-0-12v-fuel-multi-tool-body-only-inc-18x-accessories - to cut the panels.

@@polycrubdiaries8969 Thanks, lot of great tips in your video, I am going to use your rope - window limiter, fantastic innovation !

Great you’ve got your polycrub 😍. Hope the build goes ok. I didn’t film the cold frame build 🙄. But I may make another one in the future.

Thanks for commenting. Yes i do remember the 2nd sheet being really tricky and requiring a lot of patience to get seated in the H section. If it helps we used a spray bottle of dilute fairy liquid and some plastic car trim removal tools to get it slid in and seated properly. Hope you get a non-windy day soon. On a sunny day with no wind it's easy to reach 30 degrees C even with all of the windows and doors open. On an overcast windy day it will easily reach 25 degrees C with 1 window open. It heats up very quickly and easily even on cloudy days. The watermate pro watering system records the temperature every 30 mins - so when I get a chance I will include a screen grab of the temp graph in one of my vlogs.

Can I give you a tip for getting the 2nd sheet on? Don't gouge that plastic 'H' beam with knives and what-not to open it when trying to push your sheet in. Fairy liquid isn't needed either. Get 2 people to hold your sheet tight in place (opposite sides of crub) and right against the opening of the 'H' beam. Then a third person uses a plastic spatula from the kitchen, starting at one end of the sheet, gently slide that into and along the opening while the other two move the sheet into place as you go. It's a 1cm movement. We learned that with our last 2 sheets. First ones were a nightmare, the spatula made it easy.

@@polycrubdiaries8969 @psisky Thank you for the tips - I have noted them in readiness for the big day! Good to know how easily the Polycrub warms up. Thank you.

My advice is much the same. We thought we would never get the second sheet on but in the end made up one of the forked clamps they talk about in the instruction manual and you can see in one of the photographs. That holds the panel in place while you ease in the edge using a plastic spatula or cake slice and you just work your way up over the rest of the sheet. The remaining sheets are easier but the clamps helped there too. Good luck. My polycrub is still not quite finished at the gable ends but I’m loving it already and so are the tomatoes.

Just screws.

Yes, just from the beach.

Glad it was of help. Hope you are happy with your watering system.

Hi, the costs can be found on the polycrub website. As for the thickness I'd estimate 10mm.

Hi, thanks for your comments and questions. It is possible to attach the drippers to the LDPE pipe using a twist valve (there are 10 included with the kit). You could have the valves fully open/partially open/closed depending on how much water you want to give each plant. As well as having a 'main' valve attached to the LDPE pipe, you could also have additional valves and t-pieces further downstream to have further control of how much water each plant gets. A bit like what we've done to water the hanging planters. We have a separate dripper coming off a main pipe to serve each hanging planter. We didn't use valves for each individual hanging planter - but you could do this to have further control on watering. Hope this makes sense, and hope this helps.

That's a good question. So far it's been sunny every day for most of the day and the system has watered up to 5 times a day. The battery has been able to charge enough to keep the system operating. I will need to test it over the next few months to see how it charges on cloudy days. I did see on the harvst website that there is a bigger solar panel that can be bought as an upgrade though.

@@polycrubdiaries8969 Thank you for taking the time to reply. Wishing you all the best with your growing.

@@NOELTM You are very welcome. Thank you.

Pipe recycled from the fishing industry.

Thanks!

Glad you liked it, and glad you found it helpful 😃

Hi, probably best to check their website - www.polycrub.co.uk/ - thanks

Yes mine does the same, as you say I think it's the panels heating up. How are you finding your polycrub?

@@polycrubdiaries8969 Great so far & VERY hot. Trying to do "no dig" combined with "square foot gardening". It'll be a jungle in a couple of months so I'll see then if those methods work. I'll do a wee video when I have time.

@@psisky : would love to see a video of your polycrub. Happy growing :)

Hi I'm not sure as the temperates where I am have only got to -3 deg C. You could take a look at the polycrub website - www.polycrub.co.uk and send them a message.

Thanks!

Thank you :)

I don't regret buying it one bit - a worthwhile investment.

@@polycrubdiaries8969 love your blogs about it!

@@gawain8000 Thank you....got another blog coming soon :)

I believe they have said they have delivered to the Falkland Islands…

check out their website www.polycrub.co.uk/

Hi, from memory its around 10mm thick.

Check out www.polycrub.co.uk - the specs should be on there.