Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Cold Frames for the Hot Bed

Those cold frames are just about finished now, sawn, hammered, screwed and painted into submission. I think I may paint my allotment number on to them, it might make them look a bit smarter. Working out the cost of the frames was a bit difficult, having to buy some tools and rather more screws than you need and also overestimating on the paint; but you can never have too much white gloss can you? Well using a variety of cost accounting methods that would make your average city banker pretty chuffed, I reckon that the pair of frames should cost around 60 squid for the pair. Not bad bearing in mind that the build quality is of a pretty high standard in terms of the materials, not my carpentry skills, and a double lick of paint is worth more than it's weight in gold. So there you go, voila!

2 comments:

Paul and Melanie said...

Sounds great! I really need to give some home-carpentry a go some time, I just keep assuming it'll be rubbish when I'm done lol
I'd love a cage to put over the brasicas tho... perhaps time to take the plunge! :)

bloggorazzi said...

go on give it a go, I'm building a cage now but to keep squirrels off some pots of strawberries. Cross fingers the mesh is strong enough. They attacked the wire bird feeders last winter and managed to open them up.