Putting Guttering On A Polytunnel

All you need are some basic diy skills and some willing helpers four people is ideal.

Putting guttering on a polytunnel.

They are shaped like a little gutter if you turn them upside down and are much cheaper than commercial polytunnel gutter kits. Or if you don t have a timber side rail and your polythene is trenched or fixed to a base rail we supply an extruded aluminium backing profile. To ensure rainwater runs directly into the gutter a series of timber battens we used 19mm x 38mm pressure treated battens may be required to close off any gaps between the guttering and the side rail. Not many solutions are available to collect rain water fr.

Our polytunnel gutters are long lasting aesthetically pleasing and require no maintenance other than clearing them of debris occasionally. This innovative product comprises of two 10ft plastic gutter sections with an adhesive backing strip which can be stuck onto the sheet of any garden sized polytunnel. Choose a warm day to install the cover. You should now have a strong robust alternative for harvesting rainwater off your polytunnel.

It can be fitted to a timber side rail on your new or existing polytunnel. Polytunnel gutter kit. Use the ones that go on top of a row of tiles in the bathroom. Quick and easy to install.

Collecting rainwater is an easy cost effective way of ensuring you can always keep watering. Polytunnel gutters are expensive to buy but this idea does exactly the same but at a bargain price. To have something to mount the gutter to i fixed a 2 x 1 batton all the way down one side before i put the polythene cover on. The gutter is installed at the top of the straight side of the polytunnel hoop where the curve starts.

Plastic tile trims work really well as flexible gutters that can be taped to the outside of the tunnel. Make sure that you have a drop of an inch or two at the end where the water is going to go so that the guttering can be lined up with it. Warm weather makes the plastic more pliable and therefore easier to stretch tightly over the frame. Vat add items to basket qty.

I ve tortured myself for a month or more about how i m going to keep the veg in my new tunnel watered from november to may when there s no water on the all.