Choose a warm day to install the cover.
Diy polytunnel guttering.
It can be fitted to a timber side rail on your new or existing polytunnel.
Save water with our quick and easy to use polytunnel gutter.
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.
Building your own polytunnel from a kit can save you hundreds of pounds in construction costs.
Warm weather makes the plastic more pliable and therefore easier to stretch tightly over the frame.
All you need are some basic diy skills and some willing helpers four people is ideal.
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The roof of the polytunnel.
Our polytunnel gutter kit comprises of 2 x 10ft 3 2m strips of polytunnel guttering and can be used with any brand of polytunnel.
Our polytunnel gutter is a great way to harvest water especially for those of us who currently have hose pipe bans in place.
Use the ones that go on top of a row of tiles in the bathroom.
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.
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.
Here is a guide on fixing proper polytunnel guttering to your tunnel and harvesting more rain.
Plastic tile trims work really well as flexible gutters that can be taped to the outside of the tunnel.