This unplanned major project all started because I was looking for glass panels to build a simple cold frame to start-off vegetable plants under glass.
However, one listing on eBay was for a shower panel (singular), but it was very poorly listed and described. After a couple of emails to the seller I established that there were actually 18 panels for sale in the lot, all of the same height but in batches of three different widths, and all of them brand new !
I put in a bid and was lucky enough to get all the panels for the starting price of £20. It meant a 160 mile round trip to collect them, but we hooked-up the trailer and set off. When we saw the panels, they were very much more substantial than I'd initially thought – all 6 mm toughened glass within a polished aluminium frame. They must have weighed around 400 kg or so, but with half in the trailer and half in the back of the car, we got them home OK.
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| glass panels in the foreground.... |
So, after measuring up, we decided we could build a new 12'x6' greenhouse using fourteen of them.
