02 March 2018

coldframe spring

Brought my coldframe house out onto the deck. Not much in it yet.
I thought I did good to have so little wear it didn't need to be stripped of plastic, repainted and rewrapped this year. But I should have done it anyway. It was very difficult to maneuver up the stairs without a good grip under the frame horizontals, and the plastic got torn so needed repatching (used packing tape. This has worked fine before, short term.) Also it held some residual humidity in there all winter and there was a smell of mold. I wiped it down with bleach and aired it out; odor is gone but I probably need to repaint or replace the lower boards on the sides that are there to block the draft.

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