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Dad builds his own greenhouse from old windows for under £70

A greenhouse can be a handy addition to a garden – but they often cost hundreds of pounds. One dad has impressed people on social media by building his own out of old windows, for a total cost of just £70. Kendall Burleigh, 43, lives in Richmond, Virginia, US, with his wife Susan, 47, and their five children.

Kendall had always wanted his very own greenhouse to grow fruit and veg and so in April, decided to build one by himself – made from recycled materials. ‘Growing up, my dad and mom always had a garden, It was a way of life,’ Kendall said. ‘We never had a greenhouse but I always wondered how it may have helped us grow different things. I always wanted one. ‘So I decided to build the greenhouse because I had the opportunity to do it affordably with the materials I had on hand. ‘I have always had a traditional garden but I wanted something more aesthetically pleasing, something resembling a Japanese garden, which I have always been fond of.’

He had some time off work earlier this month and decided it would be a good time to tackle the project, with his children helping. Spotting that his brother was planning to throw away a truck-load of windows, he decided he could make use of them. The dad said: ‘It all started a few weeks ago when I stopped by my brother’s house on the way home from work.

‘He had just completed a construction job replacing the old wooden windows with new vinyl/thermal windows and had a truck full of old windows in good condition so I asked what his plans were. ‘He was going to the dump with them. ‘Then the idea hit me and I told him I wanted them and we brought them to my house. ‘He also had some leftover pieces of fence panel from a fence job so I took those too.’ He then discovered his neighbour also had some used 2x4s pieces of wood that he was going to burn, so Kendall asked if he could have those too.

And the final piece came together when he found old skylights from a skylight replacement job he had done years ago. The dad said: ‘Up until I built the greenhouse, I just used the domes on top of tables I built out of pallets as small greenhouses. ‘I knew the three domes were going to be the roof and that measurement couldn’t be altered, so I started with that measurement. ‘I then placed the windows in various configurations to try to find the best use of space and also look uniform.

Read the complete article at www.metro.co.uk. 

 

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