{"id":1870,"date":"2011-07-14T19:27:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T23:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=1870"},"modified":"2011-07-14T19:40:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T23:40:41","slug":"greenhouse-reno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/greenhouse-reno\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenhouse reno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last tuesday we plunged ahead with a project that has been on the books for a few years now&#8230; insulating the north wall of the greenhouse.<br \/>\nWe use the greenhouse in the early spring when the temperature drops below zero.  We typically use plastic over the growing wraps forming a tent with an electric space heater inside.  Most of the heat tends to vanish out of the building as it is simply 2&#215;4 construction and 1\/2 plywood walls.<\/p>\n<p>A couple years ago we insulated and added a flat floor and that made it more comfortable inside, mainly from a safety perspective (don&#8217;t trip on uneven floor anymore).<\/p>\n<p>So we emptied and dismounted everything on the north wall, including the mouse nest, cleaned it up and insulated with R3 styrofoam insulation and added a layer of 3\/8&#8243; plywood on top of that. <\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110712-02-greenhousereno.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110712-02-greenhousereno.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20110712-02-greenhousereno\" width=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1871\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110712-04-greenhousereno.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110712-04-greenhousereno.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20110712-04-greenhousereno\" width=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1872\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110712-05-greenhousereno.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110712-05-greenhousereno.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20110712-05-greenhousereno\" width=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1873\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/table>\n<p>After the wall was done we rearranged the cupboards and work surfaces into something that should work better:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110712-17-greenhousereno.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110712-17-greenhousereno.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20110712-17-greenhousereno\" width=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1875\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110712-22-greenhousereno.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110712-22-greenhousereno.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20110712-22-greenhousereno\" width=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1876\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/table>\n<p>Lastly we built some more shelving to store regularly used items and laid down the rubber flooring squares again.<br \/>\nNew screening was added to the floor vents, 3 sections of pegboard went up to organize tools, a new IKEA shelf was assembled and installed.<br \/>\nDone in one day.  Total cost of the project was about $150<\/p>\n<p>Once we see how this behaves in the early spring we will see about adding the next phase of insulating the east wall.<br \/>\nThis has also eliminated a lot of potential mouse nesting space, which is always good.  We had 8 mousetraps in the greenhouse and none of them tripped for some weeks now.  We thought we were mouseless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last tuesday we plunged ahead with a project that has been on the books for a few years now&#8230; insulating the north wall of the greenhouse. We use the greenhouse in the early spring when the temperature drops below zero. 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