Hi all, new guy here. I just got a hundred tempered glass sheets around 1 meter square and 10mm thick. So naturally I want to build a greenhouse or something haha. Any opinions/recommendations before I start building? Firstly I am going to tackle the obvious problem of how to mount them to form a wall and ceiling while maintaining the ability to replace future broken panels. Will probably weld together some steel tee bar or something. Thanks for reading and looking fwd to reading some ideas and thoughts from you all.

Hi @Ericmclemore555 and

Hey, you have them; you may as well use them. Nothing "purtier" than a glass greenhouse and it will provide a longer service life than any other form of greenhouse glazing. One thing you need to be careful of, though, is if you use them for greenhouse glazing your plants will be more prone to "burn". You'll definitely need to use shade cloth during the hot and sunny times.

I just built a glass greenhouse two years ago but I used twinwall polycarbonate glazing for the roof. The twinwall is less prone to breakage and disperses the light a bit as it passes through it.
I still use shade cloth in the summer as the sun is directly overhead and would be unbearable otherwise inside.
Another suggestion...get TREMCO 830 sealant, it's pricey but you will not regret it or ever have to re-do it.
Keep us updated, I'm interested to see your progress.

hey
thanks for your question. I have also same question.

My first thought would be, find out the building codes for your project. Before you build. I wanted to build a glass greenhouse before I built my polycarb one, and the building codes would have made it totally undoable. I would have had to have an architect design it, and the glass for the roof would have had to be a special type different from the wall glazing. It was coming out at over $150,000 just for the house, not including any equipment or water or anything. Plus here, they have to be built to the current Miami hurricane wind standard, even though we are 5 hours North of Miami. It wasn;t something where I could just sneak it in and say 'sorry' if they caught me.

We don't have hurricanes here but we can get heavy snow.
The City made me show them a snow load calculation report before approving the kit I purchased.
Fortunately the manufacturer provided the math and did the report for me.