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We used a 14’ dome for 29 years until it started to collapse last fall and I had to demolish it. It was framed with redwood 2”X2” and plywood hubs (it was a kit) Hail would shred the plastic cover in a hard hail storm so I took my router and a rabbiting bit so I could glaze it with 3/16 glass. I made hub covers with 1/8 Plexiglas circles that I heated in the oven and molded them to seal the hub joints.

One of the big problems with the dome was cooling it without roof vents. We had a fan in and fan out but it still over heated.

For this season we are using a tent like kit to start our seeds but this summer we will buy a aluminum framed glass unit probably 12 X 16

Interesting information, thanks a bunch.

One of the big problems with the dome was cooling it without roof vents.

Why didn't you make a vent? Fitting one or more of the triangles with a triangle-frame on hinges (with a latch stick) would let the heat chimney right out.

94 posted on 05/15/2009 9:41:28 AM PDT by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)

95 posted on 05/15/2009 9:42:01 AM PDT by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)