Choose a warm day to install the cover.
Putting guttering on a polytunnel.
The gutter is installed at the top of the straight side of the polytunnel hoop where the curve starts.
Not many solutions are available to collect rain water fr.
All you need are some basic diy skills and some willing helpers four people is ideal.
Building your own polytunnel from a kit can save you hundreds of pounds in construction costs.
Polytunnel gutters are expensive to buy but this idea does exactly the same but at a bargain price.
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.
To have something to mount the gutter to i fixed a 2 x 1 batton all the way down one side before i put the polythene cover on.
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.
Warm weather makes the plastic more pliable and therefore easier to stretch tightly over the frame.
You should now have a strong robust alternative for harvesting rainwater off your polytunnel.