Vitavia Greenhouses - Back to BASEics!

The Greenhouse Blog – 29^th November 2011  (by Vitavia ‘the way of life’)

Vitavia Greenhouse – Back To Baseics!

An important factor for successfully assembling a greenhouse, as with most buildings, is ensuring you start with a firm and level foundation.  Without a good base on which to build, problems can arise.  A galvanised steel Vitavia base, colour matched with the frame, comes as an additional cost effective accessory and provides the perfect foundation. 

Increased eave height is an added advantage of a steel base.  With an additional 6.5cm to 12.5cm in height, depending on the model, useful extra working space is achieved.

Fixing kits are available to secure the steel bases to concrete or other solid ground.  The clips can be screwed into the ground and neatly clasp the bottom edges of the base, or, if your base is positioned on soil, long stakes are supplied to hold the base firmly in place.

When it comes to greenhouses, our years of experience help to ensure we can cater for every gardener’s needs.  We have a constant process of development and improvement across our range with our aim being to make our products as useful and enjoyable as possible for all of our customers.

At Vitavia We Are 'Sirius' About Greenhouses!

The Greenhouse Blog – 24^th November 2011  (by Vitavia ‘the way of life’)

The name Sirius is derived from the Greek word ‘Seirios’ meaning ‘scorcher’ and Vitavia’s latest model, Sirius 13000 is certainly a scorcher!  With an impressive eave height of 1.56m and ridge height of 2.52m the total growing area is 13 square metres, which means this spacious greenhouse has lots of space for growing plants, relaxing or a combination of the two!

The single panes of 4mm float glass provide exceptional clarity avoiding the slight green tint which can appear in standard horticultural glass and the float glass is held in place with a new black rubber capping system.  A strong matching steel base and three downpipes come as standard, as do double doors and four roof vents.  The Sirius is available in anodised aluminium or powder coated green or black.  This ‘orangery style’ greenhouse, being particularly attractive, shares it name appropriately with the brightest star in our skies.

Vitavia Self-Assembly Greenhouses

The Greenhouse Blog - 16^th November 2011  (by Vitavia ‘the way of life’)

Vitavia Self-Assembly Greenhouses

Following on from last week’s blog about our expert delivery drivers and greenhouse assembly specialists, we want to reassure you that, should you decide to assemble a Vitavia greenhouse yourself, we provide tried and tested instructions with every model.  The instructions can also be downloaded from our website (www.vitavia.com).  To help all Vitavia customers everywhere, the written instructions are multi-lingual. Simply cut out the relevant written instructions and follow them in conjunction with the diagrams.

The various bundles of parts are helpfully numbered to correspond with the instructions and  diagrams.  These have been divided into numbered sections so, for example, starting with the diagram for section 1, you can open parts bundle 1,  which will contain all the relevant parts for that particular section, easy peasey!

A greenhouse is basically ‘Mecanno’ for gardeners, and with a bit of patience you could be enjoying home grown fruit and vegetables straight from a greenhouse assembled with your own fair hands!  And rest assured, if you do get a bit stuck, simply pick up the phone and one of our friendly customer service advisors will be more than happy to talk you through.

Vitavia Home Delivery & Assembly

The Greenhouse Blog – 8^th November 2011  (by Vitavia ‘the way of life’)

Vitavia Home Delivery & Assembly

Did you know that Vitavia provide the option of home delivery on our entire range of greenhouses.  With dedicated delivery drivers covering the length and breadth of Great Britain and beyond, Vitavia home delivery lead times are extremely competitive, being on average 2-3 weeks from receipt of your order. 

Our delivery drivers know our products inside out.  With over twenty years’ experience of assembling greenhouses, our longest serving driver, Gareth Jones, goes the extra mile.  He’ll unload the various greenhouse components to your specified location and if required, for a reasonable additional fee, will assemble your greenhouse in next to no time.

But don’t just take our word for it, here are a couple of examples of recent customer compliments;

“Gareth Jones, the engineer from Vitavia, has been with me today… sincere thanks for sending such a true gentleman who gives old fashion service that one does not get these days. He was extremely helpful and obliging and is a credit to the company” – Mr D. Cox

“Just thought I would say that I received delivery today of my Vitavia Hera 9000. The delivery person was most helpful and enthusiastic about his job and the product he was delivering!  Very rare to find such good customer service” – Mr F.Barrow.

Maintaining such high standards of customer service is key to our success.  Why not try it for yourself and start your home growing experience with the seamless service from Vitavia.

The Benefits of Anodised Aluminium

The Greenhouse Blog – 3^rd November 2011  (by Vitavia ‘the way of life’)

The Benefits of Anodised Aluminium

The complete Vitavia greenhouse range is available in either powder coated green or anodised aluminium.   But “What is anodised aluminium?” we hear you cry!  Well, anodisation is the process by which aluminium is preserved in pristine condition.  The oxide layer which forms on aluminium alloys is thickened through anodisation to increase corrosion resistance and surface hardness (if you’re interested in the scientific stuff please read the paragraph below).  Tougher, longer lasting frames are obviously a key benefit for a structure which has to withstand the vagaries of our climate.  Anodised Aluminium is just one of the benefits of a Vitavia greenhouse.  Why not visit our website (www.vitavia.com) to find out more and keep up to date with other fascinating blogs to come!!

An anodised aluminium layer is developed on the greenhouse frame by passing a direct current through an electrolytic solution, with the aluminium frame serving as the anode (which is a positive electrode).  The electric current releases hydrogen at the cathode (the negative electrode) and oxygen at the surface of the aluminium anode, creating a build-up of aluminium oxide.