I think we'd left this at the completion of one door, so let's carry on from there.
Obviously, I made a second door, very much the same as the first. I then fitted them into the frame and chopped out for hinges:
Fitting allowed me to work out the size of the rebates in the meeting stiles:
I glued and pinned in some ply, and pinned in some bead (aaarrrgh.....mitres!) to hold it:
After offering the frame up into place, I discovered that its best position had it projecting from the face of the greenhouse frame. This was fine on the verticals, but meant I had a "shelf" at the top on which water could sit. So I planed up an off-cut to make a door head drip thingy:
That got a drip groove after that photo was taken.
Next, I grabbed my router. The one with a cable. It's been a while since it has seen any action. But I'd got 18 window hinge sockets to house out, and I'd got a jig I made for the same size hinges in the kitchen, so why not:
Actually fitting the windows into place was a bit awkward until I worked out this method:
The weather took me indoors for a while, so I made some staging out of 2x1 treated battens:
This detail is the one that has kept me awake at night. I hate back gutters, but there was an inevitability about having two of them once I opted for rooflights. It's absolutely essential to get a substantial fall side-to-side on a back gutter, becuase it is certain that leaves and bird droppings will accumulate there and potentially block them up. Here's what I came up with (it produced lots of shavings):
The leadwork had to be mainly done before the glazing was fitted, because access would be reduced to all-but-nil afterwards. I did the preparatory work at ground level:
Then popped them up into place. There were five pieces of lead this time, with one behind each rooflight, and separate pieces between:
The glass arrived:
A couple of pieces were broken:
I started the glazing by making up some lead strips and screwing them in place:
I puttied in the windows and the rooflights, slowly at first, but neater and quicker as I got into the job:
This is the stuff which was going to make the roof simple. Not just that, but if any panes ever broke, replacement will be straightforward:
https://www.expandingfoamtape.co.uk/collections/2-6mm/products/exp6102612
It is sticky on one side, and the foam is impregnated with some magic goo which makes it waterproof and watertight. It is about 2mm thick on the roll, but expands up to about 12 or 15mm thick if allowed (the less is expands, the more severe the conditions in which it remains watertight):
It only took an afternoon to glaze the entire roof:
Here is the glass with expanding foam tape above and below, and the cover strip:
Following the principle of always having an indoor and an outdoor job on the go, in case of bad weather, I had made a start on the cold-frame:
The windows had 6 joints, obviously. Every last one different! This is because the top and bottom rail were different thicknesses, as were the two stiles. I have 5 marking gauges, and they were all in use for this joint-fest. Here's just one:
I fitted the coldframe into place with some jollop and a few screws and plugs, then cobbled up a system for holding the lids open:
Fitting the ironmongery took most of a day. I didn't take a photo of my home-made rebate latch arrangement, but doing that and 9 window stays and latches, and fitting the rooflight automatic openers was a fair amount of work:
So barring glazing the coldframe and a final coat of paint, that's it, finished.
) used as the green mist coat and what Bedec top coat are you going to use?
