Putting Guttering On A Polytunnel

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.

Putting guttering on a polytunnel.

Building your own polytunnel from a kit can save you hundreds of pounds in construction costs. Choose a warm day to install the cover. The gutter is installed at the top of the straight side of the polytunnel hoop where the curve starts. 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.

It can be fitted to a timber side rail on your new or existing polytunnel. Polytunnel gutters are expensive to buy but this idea does exactly the same but at a bargain price. To have something to mount the gutter to i fixed a 2 x 1 batton all the way down one side before i put the polythene cover on. 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. Warm weather makes the plastic more pliable and therefore easier to stretch tightly over the frame.