How to Make a DIY Greenhouse | I Like To Make Stuff

hey i'm bobby i like to make stuff today we're going to make a greenhouse [Music] today we're at josh's house on the side of his house he has a really large open space and his wife has always wanted a greenhouse so we're going to build one to go here this is going to be a lean-to style greenhouse it's not going to be attached to their main house it's not going to be embedded in the ground and there's a bunch of different ways to make greenhouses this is just one of them now the first step here is to clean off this wall because this is all gonna be covered up by the back wall of the greenhouse we're gonna do that now to give you an idea of how big this is gonna be it's gonna be six feet off the wall and twelve feet long each one of these sections in the concrete is three feet so we're gonna have four of those one two three four and it's gonna end right here now the door to the greenhouse is gonna be right on this end so you can walk around from the back door and walk right inside [Applause] we've got a whole stack of two by fours here that we're going to use for the entire construction and we're going to start by making the floor the floor joists are going to be two by fours 16 inches apart 16 on center and the entire thing is going to be 12 by 6. if you wanted to scale this down by four feet that would be super easy to do you could make it eight feet or four feet or whatever you want [Music] for this i'm going to use a pneumatic framing nailer and a lot of times people confuse this with a roofing nailer because it's got a coil there's actually a coiled and a straight version of both roofing and framing nailers i'll have this linked down below as well as all the other stuff we got at lowe's in case you want to check it out [Music] [Applause] so far i've only put in this one and one down there these are four feet from the outside edges now i said earlier that we're going to put all these pieces 16 inches on center and we're not actually going to do that 16 is the minimum spacing to make sure that the floor is fully supported instead of 16 inches we're gonna break each one of these areas down into three equal segments and just put the two by fours there [Applause] [Music] we've got the frame light in place and this is not its final position it's actually going to be closer to the wall but we have to be able to work on the back of it before we push it up against the house and also we can't level the ground underneath it without completely grading this area which we don't want to do until we get it into its final position we'll deal with that later on but for right now i'm going to start building out the back face of this and nailing the pieces in place so that we can get the back complete move the whole thing into place before we do the rest of it [Applause] i've got the vertical pieces up on the back and they're really floppy right now because they're only connected at one little spot on the bottom but we're about to tie them all together with one two by four going all the way across then we'll have at least kind of a stable wall now at this point there's nothing to stop it from going forward and backward so we're also going to build the front wall and then connect the front to the back at the top corners and that'll at least give us a stable structure for today [Music] we thought this area of ground was pretty level but once we got the frame pushed into place we saw that it wasn't going to be good so we decided to stop work and figure out a way to get the surface level all the way across now like i mentioned before you could grade the surface ahead of time but we didn't really want to do that so instead we used some two by fours to act as feet going all the way from the frame to the ground we use two levels on the frame and worked our way from one end to the other making sure that the entire thing was level and now we've got a great surface to build on we got this outer frame put on but i'm not going to nail these two pieces in yet i'm going to screw them in instead because eventually we want to take them out so that we can lay down the floor panels on the floor joists [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] now we're ready to lay down the floor and this is going to be two layers the first is half inch pressure treated plywood we've notched it around the two by fours we've laid it down and we're going to use decking screws to hold it down then on top of that we're going to use some outdoor siding this is a composite it can get wet it'll be just fine and it actually is going to look a lot better on the floor than just regular plywood [Music] [Applause] we got the floor put down now we're going to finish putting the uprights on the sides just to make sure that this is parallel with this we've got some spacers on the top and the bottom you can just slide it all the way over and nail it in place [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] the framing is now complete we've got the floor down and now we're going to start wrapping the outside of this with some paneling we took the offcuts from these floor pieces these are going to get nailed onto the walls right here and then wrapped in some trim just to make them look better now the clear part of the greenhouse is going to go on top of these pieces but we'll get to that in a little bit [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] to cover the outside of the greenhouse we ordered these 4x8 sheets of plastic and we couldn't get them at our local store unfortunately but luckily if you order from lowes.com you can have them delivered to your local store for free then you just got to go pick them up this plastic actually comes with a white sheet on the outside that you could leave on if you really wanted it to not be fully clear some people actually paint the inside of greenhouses white to cut down the amount of heat but it's up to you whether you leave this on or take it off and have these pieces completely clear and i think in this case we're gonna pull these off this is basically the same stuff that you would find on a political sign it's two pieces of plastic with a corrugation on the inside and so since it's thin plastic you can easily cut this with a utility knife so we're going to set it down into the trough that we've made down here cut it off at the top and then connect the panels i said i was going to use a utility knife and that would make more sense if you were cutting this way in between the corrugations but we actually have to cut across them so instead we'll use a circular saw we've got these roofing screws that we're going to use to put this stuff on it has a washer and a gasket and really in this case that's really just going to help not crush the plastic as we screw these in [Music] while bob's in the garage cutting up the rest of the pieces for the roof i have to worry about the door this doesn't need to be really heavy we're gonna use some of the same plastic for the top and some of the same trim for the bottom and so i'm gonna frame this out nice and simple using pocket holes and three quarter inch material because again it doesn't need to hold a lot of weight [Music] [Music] [Music] i've got the door made up it fits the space just fine and before i add the plastic i'm going to attach it to the greenhouse with the spring hinges so when you let go of the door it just closes we still have to add a little bit of trim to the outside and maybe some bracing so it doesn't sag but while i work on this bob is up working on the roof i've got the center panel on the roof and i put this on the same way that we did the stuff on the outside it's got a channel on each side so we can slide on two more pieces but we also have to cut some holes in this oddly enough we need to add some vents to make sure that it doesn't get too hot on the inside we can open these vents and let some air out so i'm gonna get a jigsaw up here and cut a hole [Music] [Applause] [Music] to make the flaps on the top of the roof i cut down a few more pieces of this and then i also cut down one piece that's a little bit smaller this is going to act as my template so i can lay this on the roof trace this shape and then cut it out and i'll be sure that the flap is going to cover it enough on each side then i'm going to put the flaps in place with some flex tape [Music] we chose flex tape for this because it's a waterproof tape it's used often to seal up leaks or things like that water is not going to mess up the adhesive and in this case that will work out really well because it's going to act as a hinge exposed to the elements exposed to rain and the humidity on the inside of the greenhouse if you make a greenhouse like this i do have one recommendation don't do it in the summertime because it's insanely hot on the inside [Music] [Music] i've got to put a few more screws down here to attach this last panel and then we're going to run a circular saw down the front edge to get a nice clean cut on all of these panels i also wanted to point out one thing in this particular case we're going to run some lag screws through the back of the frame into the house to make sure this thing stays down but if you live in an area where you have to deal with high winds maybe hurricanes you want to look at how you're supposed to strap something like this down so it stays in place in those situations just be sure to check your local code [Music] i got both vents put in on the top and josh cut some little pieces of wood that can be clipped into place to keep them open and when you're ready to close them you just pull those pieces out and they'll fall down now that will give us air out but we also need a way to get air in and for that we're going to use these registers these are ac registers these are specifically made for high humidity areas and they can be open and closed so we can cut some holes right down here put a register here and one on the other side and then this thing will be done [Music] [Music] so here it is the final greenhouse now there's a bunch of different ways you could do this there are tons of different designs for greenhouses this one was made specifically to go up against the house in fact because it's up against the house we ended up not even putting a back wall on it because it just uses the house and it's holding plenty of heat on the inside we chose the plastic for this but honestly this stuff's pretty expensive and there's a bunch of different options that you could use to cover a greenhouse of any type you could use this stuff or you could use the white version of it which is a lot cheaper and will actually create a little bit of shade you can take plastic sheeting on a big roll and wrap each one of these sections it's gonna be a lot cheaper but not as strong the construction for the greenhouse is pretty much universal but depending on where you live and what the temperatures are like you may need more vents or fewer vents you may need a fan you may need a heater there's a bunch of different options that will all depend on where you live huge thanks to lowes for sponsoring this video we got everything that we used in this project tools and materials either on lowes.com or at our local lowe's store we'll have links down in the description for everything so you can go check it out we've got tons of other types of project videos for you and if you're not subscribed be sure to do that as well that's it for this one thanks for watching see you next time we've got a whole pile of two by fours here and i'm going to attach it now with some spring hinges so that whenever the door farts i think it's fine for what we're planning on doing farts but if you live in an area with high winds maybe with you no

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Length: 16min 31sec (991 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 12 2019