A pane in the....................greenhouse

This greenhouse came with a unique glazing method called bar capping. The traditional method is small square panes which are held on top of one another with glazing clips. The bar capping method enables whole lengths of glass to be place into the glazing bars by using same length strips of plastic 'capping', essentially something which screws down onto the glazing bar enabling the edging of the capping to hold the panes firmly in place.

Of course this is all dependent upon the frame being absolutely square and given that Gnome was just a half smidgin out of kilter then one or two were not as tight as they should be. This is where good old silicon glazing caulk comes in handy.

Shoogling ( a good old Scots phrase that describes the act of moving things round to put them in place or make them fit) the panes into place was a challenge and trusting the strength and resilience of strengthened glass was the trick to this. Strengthened glass apparently is at it weakest on its corners. So accidently banging it on concrete on its corner while moving it about can shatter the whole pane. What we discovered was that on its straight edge, it could cope with quite a lot of gentle shoogling to ease it into place between the glazing bars.

Not one pane was lost you will be pleased to hear.