Western Red Cedar Lean-To’s
Upgrade your indoor living area and bring your garden into your home. They support their own weight, merely butting up and attaching to your existing structure.
In order to accommodate doors and windows, we can work with you and boost the basewalls or siding for the perfect fit. As well as an outer door, many clients love walking into their greenhouse through an interior door.
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Designed with the ledger beam attached on the 4x4 posts (included), they support their own weight, merely butting up and attaching to your existing structure. Three ply 2x10 Ledger Beam results in a structure which will stand up to the severest weather. We fabricate of all parts, no so there is no cutting required on your part.
INCLUDED:
18" or 30" cedar basewalls (2x4 construction, select t/g cedar siding) and 6' high eave walls (sidewalls)
Double/triple roof vents (easily automated)
Louvered basewall vents-necessary for ventilation
Full length cedar framed door & tapered 2x6 window sill
Double walled 6mm polycarbonate roof and sidewalls
All hardware and easy to follow instructions
OPTIONS:
Dutch Door: Doors which are split, allowing you to leave the top window open & the bottom closed.
Dutch Window: Similar to the Dutch Door, a framed, hinged upgrade for a back gable window
Clear plexiglass acrylic glazing: Allows you to see out clearly like glass yet is unbreakable
Shelves and soil planters to create your ideal gardening environment.
Portico Porch Extensions: A decorative & functional to add nice finishing to the greenhouse.
Cedar Construction: constructed of mainly clear select grade beautiful Coastal Canadian Western Red Cedar, our greenhouses are second to none in beauty, durability, and value.
Professionally designed: Our greenhouses are designed by an award-winning professional designer with over 30 years of experience in architectural and structural design.
Customization to your House Specs: We know that not every house is built the same. With a Lean-To style, we are able to accommodate to your house to ensure perfect fit!
Ventilation: Large double or triple roof vents incorporated into each greenhouse which can be easily automated. Cedar louvered basewall vents add to your greenhouse passive ventilation.
High Side Walls: six foot high side walls designed for optimum sun exposure and great utilization for plant space and shelving. The high sidewall provides more headroom for benching and adds to the air volume, an important aspect of growing structures. The glazing is supported on window mullions and rafters with Western Red Cedar glazing trim/cedar bar caps, adding detail to accent the natural wood beauty.
Covering/Glazing: 6mm twin walled polycarbonate is our standard glazing. If you prefer clear glazing we suggest clear acrylic unbreakable plexiglass. Either option is offered on our prices page.
18" or 30" Cedar Basewalls: high insulation value as well as beautiful. Canadian Western Red Cedar 2x4 framing and 1x4 T&G Select Western Red Cedar vertical siding exterior. Store garden articles under your benches knowing they are not visible from the outside.
Doors: hand crafted cedar doors with matching glazing design. We also offer a Dutch Door option. Dutch Doors are split doors in which half can be left open, while leaving the other half closed. Dutch doors promote ventilation while protecting your greenhouse from unwanted visitors.
Sloped window sills: perimeter 2x6 shaped exterior window sill adds detail and flow to the design. Sloped for rain run off.
