Grow Beds Finished!
It’s taken a few weeks working several hours every day after work, but we’re finished with grow bed construction. I’m sure these are super over engineered, but better safe that sorry for this much water.
Read more Catching Up – Spring 2019
We survived the winter with flying colors! We have almost 3 feet of snow in the backyard, but the dome was awesome at shedding any snow accumulation. Everything remained water tight and we didn’t have any issues.
Read More…Roofing a Geodesic Dome Greenhouse
Since we are planning to try to make this a year around greenhouse in a colder climate, we’re going to install two types of roof system. A standard roof on the north side and corrugated polycarbonate on the south side. This allows us to insulate the north side where we don’t get much sun and it saves us money because polycarbonate is not cheap.
Read More…Preparing to Roof the Dome
Now that we have the structure up and solid, we have a few things to do before we can install the traditional roof and polycarbonate.
- finish backfilling
- install a small skirt section of roof to cover the dome/building connections
- sheet the north side of the dome and seal the joints before we can shingle.
Building a Geodesic Dome
With the lower building mostly complete and the backfilling well underway, we can finally start assembling the the dome structure. While we were confident that we could pull of this build, we were a bit apprehensive going into it considering our first dome failure. We were comforted by the fact that we could make the necessary adjustments with our piped hubs if we ran into a a similar situation this time around.
Read More…Time to Start Digging
Hurray for Spring! The ground is still a little soft, but we decided to get started anyways. We had a local excavator come out to dig our utility trench and the circular foundation.
Read moreThe Complete Greenhouse Design
Alrighty, enough of the boring required stuff. We’re going to talk about my favorite part, the complete greenhouse design.
Read moreDesigning a Dome Structure
When we first started planning this project we researched a few techniques for constructing the dome hubs. We had several factors to consider when deciding on a building technique such as snow load, which would be best for a permanent structure, ease of construction, and cost.
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