Strength
The main and most important reason to choose a polycarbonate 8x6 aluminium greenhouse has to be it's strength. Throw a ball at a panel, have a bird fly into it, or a small child run into it and they will come away unscathed. To be fair all these things can and do happen in gardens around the country, do you really want the risk, the hassle of clearing the mess up, the job of replacing the glass each time you get a breakage or crack?
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These days polycarbonate lasts years and years, many come with long guarantees and they no longer cloud or go yellow over time. The fact that it is also so strong makes it incredibly long lasting overall
Price
Aluminium greenhouses with polycarbonate panels are amazing value these days and because you can erect it yourself over a weekend you save even more money combine that with the fact you wont be replacing smashed panels and you have a very economic greenhouse
UV Protection
Polycarbonate panels offer far superior protection from the suns harmful rays, if your off on holiday you wont come back to find all your plants scorched, and you don't need to paint the panels to offer any shade
Warmth
Twin walled poly carbonate (two layers like double glazing) offer just over 50% more heat retention than horticultural glass. This translates to a huge difference in temperature giving increased savings on heating your greenhouse over night and during cold snaps
Prolonged Growing Season
With added warmth comes a longer growing season, your 8x6 aluminium greenhouse will warm up faster and for longer, earlier, and later in the year allowing you to get cracking with those essential gardening jobs that bit sooner and giving you more productivity as you start to leave the natural growing season
Ease of Fitting
Polycarboante panels just slide into the aluminium frame creating a strong and robust greenhouse structure
Light Weight
Because polycarbonate is so light weight and strong lifting the panels into place and potentially dropping them is no trouble.This allows you to erect your greenhouse at your leisure saving money and giving a great sense of achievement when it's completed
Safety
Glass in a garden where small children or those unsteady on their feet may be pottering is always going to present a risk. Even small birds can smash horticultural glass, it really doesn't take much. Polycarbonate will give you peace of mind
For a great how to guide on erecting your 8x6 aluminium greenhouse click here
