Putting Guttering On A Polytunnel

Warm weather makes the plastic more pliable and therefore easier to stretch tightly over the frame.

Putting guttering on a polytunnel. All you need are some basic diy skills and some willing helpers four people is ideal. Polytunnel gutters are expensive to buy but this idea does exactly the same but at a bargain price. 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. Building your own polytunnel from a kit can save you hundreds of pounds in construction costs. 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. You should now have a strong robust alternative for harvesting rainwater off your polytunnel.

Choose a warm day to install the cover. 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.