Putting Guttering On A Polytunnel

You should now have a strong robust alternative for harvesting rainwater off your polytunnel.

Putting guttering on a polytunnel.

Not many solutions are available to collect rain water fr. Choose a warm day to install the cover. Warm weather makes the plastic more pliable and therefore easier to stretch tightly over the frame. The gutter is installed at the top of the straight side of the polytunnel hoop where the curve starts.

I ve tortured myself for a month or more about how i m going to keep the veg in my new tunnel watered from november to may when there s no water on the all. Polytunnel gutters are expensive to buy but this idea does exactly the same but at a bargain price. Make sure that you have a drop of an inch or two at the end where the water is going to go so that the guttering can be lined up with it. Or if you don t have a timber side rail and your polythene is trenched or fixed to a base rail we supply an extruded aluminium backing profile.

To ensure rainwater runs directly into the gutter a series of timber battens we used 19mm x 38mm pressure treated battens may be required to close off any gaps between the guttering and the side rail. It can be fitted to a timber side rail on your new or existing polytunnel.