Blue water pipe cloche
Blue water pipe cloche
Question from John Barnett
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A friend of mine want's to make a large cloche out of blue water pipe. Can anyone tell me how to work out the length of the pipe for each hoop so we don't waste any please.
Posted: Saturday 2nd of March 2013 11:54 AM
Re: Blue water pipe cloche
Kathy NHI, John,
I would say it all depends on how much space you have, how high you want it to be (dictated by what is growing under the cloche) and how wide the bottom of the cloche is. I have seen a 3 feet wide base with 6 foot long pieces of pipe
All the best,
Kathy CReplied: Wednesday 6th of March 2013 07:29 PMRe: Blue water pipe cloche
Kathy NHI, John,
I would say it all depends on how much space you have, how high you want it to be (dictated by what is growing under the cloche) and how wide the bottom of the cloche is. I have seen a 3 feet wide base with 6 foot long pieces of pipe
All the best,
Kathy CReplied: Wednesday 6th of March 2013 07:29 PMRe: Blue water pipe cloche
samlucasThe dripping from the leaking pipe is driving you crazy. You do not have the money to hire a contractor to fix that leaking pipe or valve. You would like to be able to fix it and do the repair yourself. You can very simply if you know how.
http://www.plumbarena.co.uk/Replied: Monday 17th of June 2013 07:17 AMRe: Blue water pipe cloche
Shoot UserI am doing the precise same project at the moment - constructing 6m x 2.4m raised beds with blue water pipe cloches over for bird and butterfly protection.
To construct a semi circular frame 2.4m wide and 1.2m high - a true semi-circle - you use the formula pi x d, where pi is 3.142 and d is the diameter of the circle to give you the circumference. This makes the exposed length of pipe above the ground 3.77m long - half the circumference of the circle. Incidentally this is also the width of the covering you will require. BUT don't forget that you may want to bury some of the pipe for stability or have a length of vertical walling before you curve over the bed, so you would need to add these additional lengths to the half circumference that you've calculated.
Well, you did ask.......Replied: Tuesday 30th of July 2013 08:52 AMRe: Re: Blue water pipe cloche
Jason LoweryThis is right except the formula. pi X d is for the circumference so pi * 2.4 is 7.54 Half of this will give you the semi circle length which is 3.77.
Add to this some extra length each side for poking into the ground and extra lenght each side for extra heights.
I push short canes down the legs to help stiffen them and stop them curving too early and then tie the top of the loops to a longer cane to give a bit more stability.Replied: Friday 15th of April 2016 10:54 PM