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Diy polytunnel guttering.
It can be fitted to a timber side rail on your new or existing polytunnel.
Here is a guide on fixing proper polytunnel guttering to your tunnel and harvesting more rain.
Choose a warm day to install the cover.
There are a few ways that you can harvest water from a polytunnel but to fill a sizeable water container you re going to need something more substantial.
Our polytunnel gutter is a great way to harvest water especially for those of us who currently have hose pipe bans in place.
The gutter is installed at the top of the straight side of the polytunnel hoop where the curve starts.
Use the ones that go on top of a row of tiles in the bathroom.
The rain which falls onto your polytunnel can be collected in your polytunnel gutter and stored in a water butt or bucket until the water is needed.
Our polytunnel gutter kit comprises of 2 x 10ft 3 2m strips of polytunnel guttering and can be used with any brand of polytunnel.
The roof of the polytunnel.
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.
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Rather than use plastic adhesive stick on guttering which can prove expensive and unreliable here s an innovative and sure way of collecting precious rainwater from a polytunnel providing off mains supply for remote areas or allotments.
The logical place to harvest rainwater is from a convenient clean surface area high up.
Save water with our quick and easy to use polytunnel gutter.
Warm weather makes the plastic more pliable and therefore easier to stretch tightly over the frame.