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What Greenhouse Glazing is Best?

4,128 views · Published 27 February 2018 · 4:00 · Indexed 22 October 2026

Channel: VergePermaculture · 2018 · Education

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In this video Rob Avis of Verge Permaculture talks about the importance of glazing selection in a passive solar greenhouse. Glazing needs to be a minimum of 70% transmissivity to ensure that the plants get enough sun. However we are constantly trying to find ways to minimize heat loss and as we increase the R-value of the greenhouse, it typically comes at the expense of transmissivity.  Typically we use glazing from, http://www.co-excorp.com/, however, we have seen double poly walls or even a bubble wrap type material from https://www.solawrapfilms.com/ .




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