How to Build a Green House With Recycled Materials
- 1). Remove the siding from the shed so that you only have the frame and the door left. Do this with a hammer, mallet, or whatever is necessary to provide the force you need. Demolish the cover of the roof as well.
- 2). Wash all your plastic bottles, remove the labels, and remove the bottom of each bottle with scissors.
- 3). Measure the width of one side of the frame. Then divide that by the width of one bottle. This will tell you how many dowels you will need per side. On the front side with the door, skip the section where the door is, except above it.
Measure the width of the door, and divide it by the width of one bottle. This measurement will be the amount of short dowels you will need. Then measure the height of the top of the frame to the top of the door. Cut the short dowels 4 inches longer than this height. - 4). String one bottle upside down onto a dowel. Continue stringing more bottles in the same direction to stack on top of one another until the dowel is filled, but still having about 2 inches on either side to staple. At the end, string the last bottle the opposite direction as the rest. Repeat this process with more dowels until you have enough to cover all the sides and roof of the greenhouse.
- 5). Staple each garden stake full of bottles to the top and bottom of the frame all the way across, until the frame is fully covered. Staple the short stakes to the section above the door.
- 6). For the roof, you can cover the gabled frame with the same garden stakes, or you can remove the gables and cover the flat top of the rectangular frame base.
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