Dude my sincere condolences. I hope you’re able to get it all back up and reinforced soon.
Thank you. The steel frame was set into the concrete pad that the greenhouse was built upon. It is almost certainly totaled now
Was that just from the weight of the snow?
Lots of snow, freezing raining, then more snow, then more freezing rain… The weather has just been brutal for a couple weeks now here
Oof, sorry to hear that. I hope rebuilding goes smoothly.
That absolutely blows, but did anyone think of clearing the snow? We’ve built these style of sheds in the past and they have snow ratings so you know when you need to start thinking about preventive maintenance.
Edit, and wouldn’t cleaning the snow increase your natural light efficiency too? How much light would a foot of snow filter out?
Thankfully, the greenhouse wasn’t currently in use, so we didn’t lose any plants.
Unfortunately tho, the propane had been disconnected from it while waiting for some repairs. So there wasn’t really anyway to melt or clear the snow from it fast enough. The greenhouse that is in use suffered a bit of bending to the frame too, even with the heat cranked up and us trying to manually remove the snowpack from the gutters.We’ve been getting hammered with the weather here…
That’s good that there was no product.
For what it’s worth, the gutters are the last of your concern, they can hold the snow on the roof, but it’s the roof the snow manually needs to be removed from.
Always fun contracting a snow removal company to climb on your roof when the snow is expected to total over the snowload calculations. I get it though, companies are cheap, bottom lines too meet and it’s sometimes worth chancing it.
Sorry to see it. Hobby or commercial grow?
