SCORE!! One mans trash is another mans treasure!

OK, not a man but a multi-milion dollar wasteful company. Anyone that has been around corperate America even 5 minutes knows just how wasteful they are! How much they toss in the trash for no real reason! Well today I was out working remodelling houses and I had a friend that handles glass for a large company stop by to replace a piece of glass that shattered from a bad seal in a large over size sliding door. The conversation went on about this and that and got around to all the glass they had in a storage building that was going to be pitched as it was the worng size and it was custom ordered. I was "like what? pitch? holdon, what a minute!" They said the magic words ... "you want it? You can have it but you don't know where you got it!" AH, YEAH I'LL COME GET IT TODAY! So I did now I have a truck load of glass for a gresshouse I've always wanted! But I don't know where I got it and I have no idea how it got in my truck so I'll just keep in in the barn and if it's not claimed in 30 seconds with proof it's yours, then it's mine......... OK, Times up it's mine.
So I have 6 - 68"X54" triple paine argon filled sheets and 2 other smaller sheets still 68" tall just not as wide. Now I need to design a green house which wasn't on the schedule this year. The DW said she was thinking Sun Room on the backside of the house, I said she was paid to think at work not here. LOL (OK I thought it, but didn't say I still have to sleep here.)
Anyway I know enough about gardening to be dangerous even though I've been at it a few years and about as much about greenhouse as I do about birthing babies ... which is nothing if you are taking notes. So here I am with a truck load of high dollar trash and faced with the question of greenhouse or Sun Room. I'm thinking greenhouse as I have freed up a lot of time by leaving wasteful corperate America and I might actally get to use it. I also have salvaged 3 old sliding glass doors this double paine glass in them. Any ideas out there in Daveland?

Dave the one with a bunch of glass.

Here is a pic ...

you know.......I would say Greenhouse/Sunroom........cant you get the best of both worlds!!!! the beauty of it is that you would be seeing the plants that you have in your greenhouse where you sit and relax..........or are there too many plants? I know nothing about building greenhouses, or sunrooms for that matter......but i do know that if i had the glass that i didnt know where it was from i would definately do the best of both worlds thing!! Great find!! you are a lucky duck!! keep us posted on the progress!!

Well if you notice there are 7 big boxes in the back, one of the tirple paines ended up being a single paine as during the unloading process somebody tured the gavity up on me and while the first one was 275 lbs gross weight the last one was a little closer to half a ton as I tried to balance it getting out of the back of the truck the bottom slide one way and I went the other. So now I have the 7th one with a really cool tempered spider glass going on, on two of the layers. I figure I can make a cold frame out of it as it will weigh far less than the tiple paines will. Only bad thing about living in the booners not many people around to help when you need it and I had to get them out still got work to do today which I guess I should go do.

Later
Dave

Nice find there Dave , I just scored too and remodled my livingroom.
now it looks like a radio shack . LOL .. I got a glass display case,
wall shevling and slot wall panels, cealing vents , not to mention
some of the electronic stuff that made it to the dumpster.
if i had a greenhouse i could turn it into a store now.

What a wonderful find!! I too snaffled 6 panes from old sliding doors and used them to build a small (14x14) GH, supplemented with a polycarb roof and a couple of old doors with multiple window panes. Since light from the north is useless, I built the north wall against an existing structure, which let me build a bigger gh with the materials I had, and the north wall is airtight and acts as an insulator against the winter winds. It also gave me a place for a sink, and a shelving area for additives and supplies.
Living in the deep south, the additional heat that many windows allow in wouldn't be bearable as a part of the main house, but might work well enough for you. However insect control can be a real problem in a GH (aphids and spider mites especially) and I would hesitate to invite them to share my daily living space.

Good luck, and take lots of pictures!!!

Excellent find! Get yourself some lumber and a big sliding glass door and you are on the way! I would find a way to put some vents in the walls with glass that size and also some in the roof. I am SO jealous! I can't wait to see what you come up with.

Hopefully I can start this fall or this winter depending on how cold it is, still debated on if we should go with a sun room (covert the screened in porch or just a greenhouse .... benefits to both. Right now got to much other stuff to do before winter.

Dave