Greenhouse - Goodbye Old Friend, Hello New

Update:-
I finally got the quotes which ranged from very high to horrendous . With both of them they said the brick option would be more expensive. The cheapest quote, which I have accepted is £2,400 . The most expensive was almost double that!

Having spoken to some builders I know (now retired) they thought that sounded quite reasonable.

They are coming on Friday to make the base and said it should be left for a week before installation. When I knew that I then phoned the recommended installers to tell them that it will be ready from the 26th. They came back to me with a phone call saying they can install it in July!!!!!!! I politely expressed my shock and said I shall get back to them.

I then phoned the greenhouse company that had recommended them as their top installer in our area and the manager told me to leave it to him. Shortly afterwards I got another call from the installers say that either I misheard or they misspoke but they can do it in January and not July. So they shall install it on the week of January the 19th. I think the sales manager told them that he can't recommend them in future if that is the timescale.

I'll have a chat to the sales manager tomorrow. Since we bought the greenhouse we've been chatting to him about his garden and giving him advice as he obviously knows very little about gardening. We have also given him one of our special Shiney Hybrid chilli plants.

Watch this space -

 

I hope he has a greenhouse to put it in

 

No, he doesn't . He has it on his windowsill in the kitchen.

 

No, not possible. We don't want to be lifting the patio to take anything across to the greenhouse and no way to get either out of the house without taking them through the wall.

Water isn't needed as we do the watering by hose and the power is run on a catenary cable from the loft to a pole on the greenhouse. That has worked fine for the last 50 years