Warm weather makes the plastic more pliable and therefore easier to stretch tightly over the frame.
Putting guttering on a polytunnel.
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.
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.
Polytunnel gutters are expensive to buy but this idea does exactly the same but at a bargain price.
Collecting rainwater is an easy cost effective way of ensuring you can always keep watering.
They are shaped like a little gutter if you turn them upside down and are much cheaper than commercial polytunnel gutter kits.
Building your own polytunnel from a kit can save you hundreds of pounds in construction costs.
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.
Quick and easy to install.
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.
Plastic tile trims work really well as flexible gutters that can be taped to the outside of the tunnel.
Not many solutions are available to collect rain water fr.
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All you need are some basic diy skills and some willing helpers four people is ideal.
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It provides an independent water supply during regional water restrictions ensuring you can keep your plants.
You should now have a strong robust alternative for harvesting rainwater off your polytunnel.
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 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.
Polytunnel gutter kit.
Our polytunnel gutters are long lasting aesthetically pleasing and require no maintenance other than clearing them of debris occasionally.
