Product Description

HG6008 Size: 6' x 8' The all new Snap & Grow Silver 6 x 8 greenhouse has been engineered from the ground up to get you growing quickly. It features the innovative SmartLock connector system that allows you to assemble the heavy-duty, aluminum frame quickly and easily without a lot of hardware. The innovative split door and vent windows are even preassembled out of the box! The tough, crystal-clear SnapGlas panels simply slide and lock into place without any complicated tools or hardware. Get growing so you too can start to enjoy greenhouse gardening in a Snap! Features: -Fast & easy assembly using SmartLock connectors -Includes preassembled door & window with weatherstripping -Crystal clear SnapGlas polycarbonate panels are virtually unbreakable -Heavy-duty, corrosion resistant aluminum frame -Galvanized steel base kit with spike hold-downs included -Unique, split-style door provides easy access and ventilation -Nearly 50 sq.ft of usable interior space & 6 -8 of headroom -Safe. No dangerous glass to break -Great for growing in all climates

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9360 in Pet Products
• Size: 6' x 8'
• Brand: Poly-Tex
• Model: Snap and Grow Silver 6x8
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, 127.00 pounds

Features

• Hobby Greenhouse
• Heavy-duty aluminum frame
• Clear as glass polycarbonate
• Includes base kit and ground spikes
• Adjustable Ventilation

Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
Doesn't hold up in the heat
By Home gardener
This thing is a piece of crap. It's easy to put togethor and worked well the first spring. However it came apart in the summer heat in zone 6. The plastic strips that hold the "glass" panels become warped in the sun and the panels start popping out. I am not talking about a panel here or there. The entire roof had issues. I ended up having to drill holes and use aluminum rivits to hold the panels in. Then when winter came, after the first snow the rivit hole ripped and the roof caved in, so I wouldn't recommend it for lower zones either. I give it a thumbs up for style and easy installation, but I give it four thumbs down (mine and my wife's) for durability. This fall I plan on replacing the panels with lexan to salvage my investment, but if I had it to do over I would have invested in a higher quality kit with lexan in the first place.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Great greenhouse withstanding the test of time!
By Firstsnow
Great greenhouse! Snap & Grow 6'x8' Greenhouse + 4' Extension Review - Long term usage review and guidelines for one person assembly:

I bought and assembled this greenhouse in January 2010. This review was written in Dec of 2011 so I've had a lot of time to get a good idea of the good and bad points of this particular greenhouse, both in its construction and functioning. Overall I would say this greenhouse is a great buy and so far has been very helpful with propagating plants, starting seedlings early, and doing everything else a good functioning greenhouse should do for a small household with a small vegetable garden and other minor landscaping needs. Plus, it has some cool features such at two fully adjustable ceiling vents (only one vent if not using the 4-ft extension kit), a two-piece front door for additional ventilation control, and adapters at each corner to connect rainwater barrel tubes to.

First, it is imperative that you have a good foundation and appropriate southern exposure for the greenhouse. The most important thing is to make sure the area on which the greenhouse will rest upon is perfectly level as possible. I prepared my foundation in the fall of 2009 over compacted soil before the frost came, and despite my best efforts the ground settled more, froze, heaved, and eventually settled again a little off-level by the time spring 2010 came. This caused a slight alignment problem with the greenhouse door, (which has a separate top and bottom section to aid with ventilation), so that when the door is opened the top and bottom section do not stay latched together as they should. An uneven foundation could cause other problems, but so far I haven't noticed anything more except slightly tilted plants.

Next, if you are buying the 4' extension kit make sure that you use the instructions enclosed with the extension kit for the entire assembly. Do not use the instructions included with the original 6'x8' kit. I overlooked the warning on the original instructions about this and had to take apart what I had assembled in order to account for the extra parts that go with the extension.

I started out the assembly checking the parts list and making sure I had everything, but it became a chore that need not be done. This company seems to be very good about having all of the parts you need, plus some extra hardware in case you drop some connections or screws and can't find them again (like I did a number of times).

The manufacturer recommends that you use silicone spray during the assembly, and so do I. The silicone spray is very helpful for attaching the plastic parts together with the aluminum parts. Otherwise you would have to use forceful blows with a hammer to get the parts to come together and the soft aluminum and brittle plastic can't take too much pounding without damage. At most you should need only 2 cans of silicone spray for the entire project, but one can is probably sufficient.

If you have to use a hammer, make sure it is the kind with a rubber or plastic mallet, or some other type of hitting head that is gentler than a standard hammer used for pounding nails. If all you have is a nail-pounding type hammer, put a piece of wood between what you are hitting and the hammer to soften the blow and spread out the hitting surface.

Protective gloves are a must during some of the assembly. Most of the aluminum pieces are naturally sharp along the edges. When pushing pieces together (which you have to do a lot), if your hand slips (which mine frequently did) and you're not wearing gloves (which I stupidly did once), you'll probably receive a nasty cut (like the one I got on my forefinger that sliced through the nail).

It took me about 20 hours over three days to assemble the entire greenhouse and secure it to a deck-like platform. The instructions recommend two people are needed for construction, but I was able to do it all alone, though the assembly time would probably be cut to 10 hours or less if two people do it, especially because most of your time is taken up with screwing together the 8-zillion connections, which two people can do simultaneously during most of the steps.

However, there are a few steps during the assembly process that I would highly recommend getting help with if you end up assembling it yourself. In the beginning Step 4 involves connecting the horizontal ridge to the diagonal rafters at each end of the greenhouse. The ridge comes in 3 sections (2 without the 4' extension) and it is most helpful to have someone hold one section in place while you connect the other two sections together, and then join all three. Otherwise you have to attempt a balancing act with some improvised contraption and race around to get the sections connected before they fall out. Another time it is most useful to have a helper is near the end when the greenhouse has to be lifted in whole to go on top of the metal baseplates. I was able to slide the greenhouse into position and up on to the metal baseplates inch by patient inch, however each time I "inched" the greenhouse over I was in serious danger of breaking some connection or causing other damage. The whole assembled greenhouse is light enough for two people to easily lift and carry into place, so get a helper and avoid any potential damage.

After assembly is completed, the inside height of the greenhouse is just about 7'. I'm quite tall and I have no problem standing up straight in the greenhouse, as long as I am in the middle that is. I arranged my tables in a U-shape so that the only walkway is down the middle. However, when I bend over to look at a plant or to pick up a pot I have to be very aware of the low ceilings that come down from the middle ceiling ridge to the side walls. I have hit my head a number of times, and sometimes have gotten so stiff from keeping hunched over that I wish I had raised the greenhouse up upon some 4"x4" timbers below the metal base plates. If you are over 6-feet tall I recommend raising the greenhouse like this, or in some other fashion, but it is definitely not necessary and can easily be done in the future if needed by lifting the light-weight greenhouse onto taller supports (with a helper of course).

I live in a USDA Zone 6b/7a, or so. I was able to start my peppers and tomatoes early in February thanks to this greenhouse. I still took the tender seedlings inside the house at nights, but as they matured and the spring nights warmed up, I was able to leave them in the greenhouse overnight with other plants even though the outside temperature went down a bit below 30 degrees for a few hours. It seemed that was the limit for my area though, and I wouldn't leave the tender plants in the greenhouse if the temperature went any lower, especially for an extended amount of time. I recommend that if you are in a Zone 6 or colder environment that you use some extra precautions during frost, such as cloches, electric heat, etc...

The greenhouse does heat up considerably in warmer weather, and that is where the convenient ceiling vents and front door come in handy. The vents open easily and are adjustable so that you can open them a little, or a lot, depending on your ventilation needs. Also, like I mentioned above, the front door is split into a top and bottom piece that can work independently of each other, which gives you extra options for the amount of ventilation you need. However, to me all of these vents are not enough during the hottest times this summer, and I had to remove one of the plastic panels opposite the door to get enough ventilation going through the greenhouse. It would have been nice if the greenhouse had more ventilation options, or an easier way to remove panels, but to remove the one panel it wasn't a big deal, and removing other panels would be simple enough.

I did consider putting a layer of white wash on the panels to dampen the effects of the sun and heat, but I do not know if white wash will harm the plastic panels. Another option is to put a layer or two of cardboard along the vertical walls inside the greenhouse, and then attach a layer of clear bubble wrap to the ceiling to let in sunlight. I read this in an organic gardening book and it seemed a great idea to cool down the greenhouse in the summer time.

Another small problem is leaking water. The greenhouse seems to assemble together tightly but rain water still seems to find a way in, especially around the ceiling vents. However, it's slight. It isn't a big problem and could probably be caulked to seal it sufficiently if it became one.

The 4-ft extension kit requires additional support, and the way it's designed this support comes from two metal bars that go from each side of the baseplate inside the greenhouse up diagonally to the rafters near the ridge like an upside-down `V', which is hard to see in any promotional pictures of a greenhouse with a 4-ft extension. This puts the metal bars right in the way of where you would probably like some potting tables to go. So, you'll have to account for this when sizing your tables or else you'll have to take them apart (like I did) in order to accommodate the metal support that will need to go through the middle of them. In other words, size and build your tables after you finish assembling the greenhouse, or at least account for the metal bar supports that cut the greenhouse in two.

Overall, a great buy, easy construction, and very useful. This is a solid purchase even several years later. It's withstood 60mph winds, heavy snow, half dollar size hail (yes that big!). No cracks, metal discoloration etc. I'd buy it again in a second, good luck to you!