I had a book of greenhouse plans published by Ortho, and loosely followed one I liked. I got the book at either Home Depot or Lowe's, I don't remember. It's a paper back and was less than $20 at the time. I just now searched for it online and came up with this:
Greenhouses (Ortho library): Ortho Books Staff: 9780897212298: Amazon.com: Books This book has several plans and methods for building greenhouses from little to quite large for the homeowner. I liked the one I used because material costs were minimal and it resulted in a building that I could use a scavenged storm door for the entrance and had enogh height inside to be comfortable to work in. One winter it had over 1/2" of solid ice on the outside with no structural problems. I don't know if today's 1/4" plywood is as good as what I used 35+ years ago. The arches were made from 4" wide x 8 foot long strips of 1/4" plywood. The strips were doubled resulting in a 1/2" thick piece of wood. These were NOT glued together until after the outer strip was attached to the fabricated ridge boards and then the base, and then the inner strip was installed with a liberal amount of glue and clamped to the outer strip. It's hard to explain it with words and I have no photos. I remember I used every single clamp in my inventory and needed more so resorted to using pliers with rubber bands on the handles and even some clothes pins. I can't even scan the book as my printer/scanner crapped out on me for some unknown reason. As I recall, it took 2 full sheets of 1/4" plywood ripped down and I ended up with a few extra strips at first, but I broke a few while bending them and was happy to have the extras. I used a UV resistant 6 mil film that gave me 3 good years of use before needing replacement. When I saw the farmer had used corrogated fiberglass panels to replace the film, I did a head slap and thought "Why didn't I think of that??!!"
You know what? In the back of my mind, I knew these existed, but I had forgotten about them until you reminded me. I'll look into getting one to shoot 28 gauge as that size shotgun seems to be ultra rare and expensive but the shells are more affordable and available than others for some reason. I have other 12 ga. guns, but I wanted a "utility" gun that could live a rougher life than I really wanted to subject my other guns to. One that a small spot of rust, an extra scratch in the metal or gouge in the stock wouldn't make me cry. The 12 ga I got is an old Stevens pump action that is actually in pretty nice condition and cost me $190, and I probably will cry a little if I mess it up, the 16 ga. is an old H&R break open that is well suited to hanging on a nail in a shed, but it only cost me $45. The Winchester model 12 pump gun in 16 ga that I was looking at, went for a lot more than my $230 bid and wasn't as nice as the Stevens I got. I really liked the S&W model 48 revolver in .22 magnum, but no way could I justify the $750 price it sold for. I could have picked up a couple of rusty short barrel plain Jane .32 cal. revolvers for under $100 each, but I'm not interested in small caliber handguns that are very hard to get ammo for and have very limited use. In my hands, a 3" barrel handgun with rudimentary fixed sights would be good out to about 8 feet. I have other handguns better suited for that.
