Installing a greenhouse is an excellent way to grow plants throughout the year, even in winter. That is why they are built in dachas, if the owners live there permanently. Increasingly, more durable materials are used for their production than polyethylene film.
The most popular now are polycarbonate greenhouses, but on condition that they have heating. How to make it, we will tell in the article.
Ways of heating a greenhouse made of polycarbonate
In order to be able to grow plants in a glasshouse made of polycarbonate even in winter, it can be heated:
- firewood;
- infrared heater;
- gas or electric water boiler;
- sunlight;
- hot air.
Let's take a closer look at what each of these means implies.
Stove heating
This is one of the most imperfect ways, as there are a lot of costs and work, and the result is not the best. There is such heating in the installation of a furnace for burning various types of fuel (coal, wood or gasoline), but it will be necessary to build a separate room and organize good ventilation. The main disadvantage is the uneven distribution of heat through the greenhouse.
Infrared heaters
One of the most effective methods, since you, besides what to buy and install the device inside the greenhouse, do nothing. The number of heaters required depends on the area of the interior space. For growing seedlings, there is an infrared film that provides heating from the bottom.
Technical heating
Gas and electric boilers in a polycarbonate greenhouse can be used in the same way as in an apartment for floor heating or air heating. Depending on what you choose, and the location of the pipes is determined. The only difference is, if you want to make a "warm" floor, then you do not have to make a screed. Pipes in this case are laid on drainage and filled with soil.
Solar heating
There are several ways how to organize such heating. One of them is that a hole is pulled out of a depth of 15 cm, covered with a heat insulator and polyethylene, and then covered with sand and soil. This will help maintain a higher
Air heating
It consists in the fact that hot air enters the room through the pipe, which ensures the maintenance of high temperatures. But the method of air heating of greenhouses is imperfect, because the ground remains cold and the air cools very quickly if the supply of preheated air stops.
Before making a greenhouse of polycarbonate with your own hands , you should choose which method of heating in winter is more suitable for you, since the design of your structure depends on it.