We had our kitchen windows replaced with new, oak framed, argon filled sealed units. The originals were also oak, were but at least forty years old, were draughty and not awfully effective. Windows in France are generally arranged in pairs, each one about 1,80m high and 50 cm wide, so I had four glazed units taken out.
The builder asked me if I wanted to keep the them. I didn't particularly, but if he took them off to be broken up for scrap wood he would have to pay whereas if I did it I wouldn't. I was about to shove them in the van when I had a blinding inspiration, grabbed a couple of bits of chip board, some screws and some wood preservative and knocked this up:
Now I have a proper place to start my seeds off, just in time for the order to arrive.
I've still got one pane left....
That's great. Much better than the little cloche thingy I made using 2 sheets of perspex (used to be part of an ineffective mini-greenhouse), propped up against a couple of bamboos. I'm lucky enough to have a little aluminium greenhouse that OH bought me for Christmas one year that I can start my seeds off in, but I can't bear to part with the sheets of perspex and keep trying to find a use for them. At first I made a cold frame with them by placing breeze blocks in front of my shed and using the perspex as a front and a top. The grass didn't half grow quick under it. Now I've made the clochey thing. I'm hoping it will warm the ground a bit for me to be able to sow some early peas in a couple of weeks.
just has a nut dismantling it 