How to Build A Hoop House - Part 1

In this video I show you the basic steps I went through to build my 17' x 50' commercial hoop house for under $1000. I show you where I acquired materials, how to lay out a footprint, how to install ground posts, baseboards, hoops and purlins.

In part two, I explain hip boards, end walls, wiggle wire and the outer plastic installation.

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[MickGrewcock]

For heaven's sake Jim. Until 15 minutes and 47 seconds ago I didn't know what a hoop house was. Now I want one. First bees, now a hoop house. I need a small farm. Great video!

[dgb]

You have made one of the best instructional videos I have ever seen, your tips and refined attention to detail is absolutely amazing

[dr.suzettelyn]

one of the best videos about building hoop houses

[vinofarm]

If you notice anything tricky about this video, give it a thumbs up. This was harder than it looks. 👍

[crazyish]

That measurement trick to figure out a perfect rectangle is ingenious. Thank you!

[taffythegreat]

I actually learnt something today. I never understood what the hypotenuse was until now. Cheers for that. In the past if I wanted to mark out a rectangle. I would peg out the four corners, then measure diagonal

[Johnny_Benson]

THANK YOU!! for teaching me the squaring of the house. I have wondered how to do that for years.

[douxancolie]

What I like the most, this is for a single-person assemble instructions. That'd be me. I checked my farming area, no hoops or materials to build my own. I did see a pipe/pole bender; may go back and get it. I need a scaled down version too, for my residential backyard. My eyes are always bigger for what I want, then what I have room.
I love the trickery and humor with the (reverse) instruction process; pretty awesome dude! You Rock!

[brianwhitley]

LOVED the video. I especially liked that your assistant was wearing the appropriate safety gear and hi-vis vest!!!

[soopaman]

your squaring demo was spot on and easy to understand. nice work!

[Shane-oljo]

The most detailed video I have ever seen about hoop house! Wow

[hartfordboothe]

Thank you for taking the time and effort to make and post this video. Very nice discussion of how to square up the layout. Very nice editing, too; impressive reversal of the video in places. Good tip on checking craigslist. All nicely done.

[videocompilationvarieties]

Like DGB said this is by far the best instructional video on how to build a hoop-house thank you so much, I am looking forward this spring to build mine LOL.Thanks so much!

[alexnau]

Great videos. I watched yours yesterday and you inspired me to search for a used house. Found a 30x75 posted for $1000. Just checked it out and bought it today. Thanks for the information. You saved me a ton of $$$

[RetreatfarmFarmvilleVirginia]

I Have 8 32 foot long by 15 foot wide hoop houses made from free scrapyard found "Rhino" brand carport kits that someone threw the whole thing away because the first end frame became damaged from someone running into it with a car or snowplow etc. and i bought cheap 10 foot long 3/4 inch electrical conduit (steel) to add additional wind bracing and i bought bags of concrete to fill 5 gallon buckets to make anchors every 8 feet. Other than that i bought the greenhouse film and attachment parts and got a good start for under $250.

[RayBecker]

Great, great video. Well done. This should have hundreds of thousands of views.

[chantalgardner]

Absolutely beautiful job! Editing and tutorial were excellent. 👏

[LazarickHomestead]

Massachusetts people too!!! We're building a cattle panel greenhouse right now and just found your channel!!! LOVE it!!!

[stevecaswell]

Even though I know the Pythagorian theorem there is another way that is easy. I've been in home building construction 38+ years. One way we used was 3 + 4 = 5 or any combination of that works. What does that mean? Measure along one site from the corner and put a mark at 3 feet. Measure the other side from the same corner and put a mark at 4 feet. Then measure diagonally across to each points, it will be 5 feet if it is square. Likewise, you can do 6 + 8 = 10 or 9 + 12 = 15 etc.

[oldporkchops]

At 0:56, I see some drip tube too that came with the repurposed hoop house. What a deal!