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In this video, I want to give you an overall tour of the plans for making the hoop house
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You should print these plans out so you can have them handy, but for now let's just take a look at the basics. This is called a hoop house because
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these pieces here are bent and they form a kind of a hoop shape. So that's where the name comes from
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These hoops in this case are PVC pipes, so plastic pipes of the sort that might be used for
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electrical conduit. That's strong, thick stuff and it works quite well. The pipes fit down into what I call these ground pipes, or the hoops rather fit into these ground
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pipes. The ground pipes are somewhat larger in diameter than the hoops, so the hoops fit in
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and because all the hoops are the same length, when they're bent they create a continuous
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surface for clear plastic to be pulled over and anchored down here at the bottom
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to form the actual greenhouse type environment. To make things stronger, there are purlins. You can see one here and one here. Those are longitudinal pieces
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that bolt to the hoops once they're all installed, just to make it stronger. The plastic will anchor
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down here to the outside of the ground frame, which is made out of wood, and
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this other strip of wood up here allows, depending on how you string the plastic
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but it allows the plastic to be to be rolled up to create ventilation underneath because
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you don't always want a hoop house to get as warm as it might get if you live in a sunny southern
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sort of place. So print these out, study them. All of the part names that you see here are the
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same names that I used in the materials list and throughout the instructions, so it'll be a good
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guide for you. I'm going to be going into more detail in subsequent videos about exactly how
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you go about installing the ground frame and the hoops and the ground pipes and things like that
