Greenhouse Installation Made Easy 🌿
💡 Installing a greenhouse can seem daunting, but with a level base and a little patience, it’s actually very straightforward!
Professional Greenhouse Installation Services
At Greenhouse Stores, we offer both Vitavia and Elite Aluminium Greenhouses with a professional home installation option. Your greenhouse will be delivered and erected by an experienced installer, so you can focus on planning what to grow once it’s complete. 🌱
If you order one of our Swallow Wooden Greenhouses, installation is already included in the price. The Swallow team will deliver and assemble your new greenhouse quickly and efficiently, leaving you ready to enjoy it without lifting a finger. For more details, visit our Greenhouse Installation Service page or call us today on 0800 098 8877.
Our wooden greenhouse fitters are among the best in the business, ensuring top-quality workmanship every time. Have a look at one of our completed installations here.
6ft Wide Greenhouse Installations
8ft Wide Greenhouse Installations
DIY Greenhouse Installation 🔧
If you’ve decided to assemble your greenhouse yourself, here’s a list of essential tools and a few handy tips to make the job go smoothly:
- Pair of gloves — ideally with a rubber grip for safer glass handling.
- Safety goggles — essential protection during assembly.
- Scissors or a Stanley knife — for opening cardboard boxes and wrapped bundles.
- Phillips screwdriver — for assembling doors, staging, and window fittings.
- 10mm nut spanner (REMOVE: a 10mm socket drill attachment can help, but avoid over-tightening). Most bolts slide into frame channels and are secured with 10mm nuts.
- Step ladders — for roof assembly and glazing.
- Pair of pliers — useful for fitting and removing glazing clips.
- Glass sucker — helpful for safely handling long roof panes.
- Drill — required if fixing a steel base to concrete with base clips.
Fixing Your Vitavia or Elite Base to a Soft Surface 🧱
Here’s how to correctly install your greenhouse base on a soft surface such as soil using the supplied corner posts:
- Assemble the base, attaching the corner posts with the split ends facing up.
- Ensure the base is square and positioned where you want the greenhouse to sit.
- At each corner, dig a 15cm x 15cm x 40cm hole using a spade or trenching tool.
- Bend the split ends upward for better anchoring before placing the posts into the holes.
- Level and square the base before assembling and fixing the greenhouse frame on top.
- Once the structure is fully assembled and glazed, fill the corner holes with concrete to secure the posts.
⚠️ PLEASE NOTE: Our greenhouse installation team will only install greenhouses on a solid, level, and flat base. The base must be of concrete or slab construction.
✅ Greenhouse Stores only provides direct installation when it is offered by the manufacturer, as they use their own factory-trained installers. If you choose to hire a third-party installer, it is entirely at your own risk. For information about shed installation, see our Garden Shed Installation Midlands page.