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I've been thinking about building a greenhouse for a while. I've been looking at various designs and the Gothic style seems to be one that would be a good year round structure. I'm looking at one of the DIY kits that your use the 1 3/8" chain link fencing top rails for most of the structure. I've ordered a bender and several of the gothic hoop kits from the following site. The kit is per hoop and includes the top connector, connectors for the brace, and connectors for each purlin.
It's looking like for something that would endure snow load 4' OC hoops would be needed, so I'm starting with what would be a 14.5' x 24' x 10.5' greenhouse. I don't have the braces in the drawing, but they would connect across the hoop between the top purlins. The lower purlins on each side would most likely be 1x4's run the length of the structure for attaching wiggle wire tracks and to allow for roll-up-sides for the lower halves to allow a cross breeze through the greenhouse.
Hopefully the bender will arrive this week and can start assembling the jig table to start making hoops.
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It's looking like for something that would endure snow load 4' OC hoops would be needed, so I'm starting with what would be a 14.5' x 24' x 10.5' greenhouse. I don't have the braces in the drawing, but they would connect across the hoop between the top purlins. The lower purlins on each side would most likely be 1x4's run the length of the structure for attaching wiggle wire tracks and to allow for roll-up-sides for the lower halves to allow a cross breeze through the greenhouse.
Hopefully the bender will arrive this week and can start assembling the jig table to start making hoops.