Quick and Easy Hoop House

BrianBay9

In chat last night I was describing a quick and easy hoop house that we put up at the nursery. Irene asked me to post something on its assembly here. This was designed by a FOC (friend of cindy), Leo Faubion.

Materials needed: half-inch metal conduit, 10 ft long
wooden dowel rods, 5/8"
rebar - 1/2 inch, 4 ft long
aluminum training wire


For each 10 ft section of hoop house, you need 5 pieces of conduit. Four of these are bent so that the top half of each forms a quarter circle. This was accomplished reproducibly by making a jig using particle board and scrap lumber. Sorry, the jig is shown upside down (curved part at bottom).

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A piece of the rebar is driven into the ground about two feet. The rebar is then inserted into the straight part of the bent conduit.

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A similar piece of conduit is used on the opposite site, and attached in the middle at the top. We attached them using sections of dowel rod hammered into the conduit.

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After two hoops are formed, 10 ft apart, the one remaining unbent piece of conduit is attached at the top using wire. This shows the attachment sites of the two side pieces, and the top piece.

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The shadecloth is attached using wire as well. The whole thing took two of us about an hour to put up (10 ft x 40 ft). Conduit was a gift, left over from a job.....rebar was $2 a piece (total $16)...dowel rods were $5.....shade cloth left over at the nursery from another structure. So, cost to us was about $21. Will it last in a storm? Don't know, but if it blows down it should be quick and easy to put back up again.

Cheers
Brian

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irene_b

Sweet setup, quick and easy for instant greenhouse!
Thank You Brian.......
Irene

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