Welcome to our Solexx Reviews and Testimonials page, where the spotlight shines on the voices of our valued customers. Here, you’ll find a collection of inspiring stories, pictures, and heartfelt quotes from satisfied Solexx users who have experienced the difference our products can make in their lives. We encourage you to join this community and share your own Solexx journey, as we celebrate the many ways in which our innovative solutions have transformed greenhouses, gardens, and more.
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I built a greenhouse using Solexx nearly 20 years ago and am just now having to replace some of it. Good stuff!
– Heidi H. Coleville, California
“We started a Community Greenhouse at our in Chiloquin, Oregon, the headquarters of the Klamath Tribes. I purchased a used 30’ x 48’ greenhouse. With local volunteers, we set the frame up last fall but didn’t put the 6 mil plastic cover over it as we thought we should wait until spring. I’m glad we did wait because we had a lot of snow and some serious high winds this winter. I realized we needed something more substantial than a 6 mil plastic covering. We chose 5mm Solexx to cover our large greenhouse. I love our Greenhouse and want another one!”
Perri McDaniel, Food Security Program Coordinator, Klamath Tribal Health & Family Services
“We live on the outer banks of North Carolina and the weather here can sometimes deliver unexpected storms.
After extensive research of green house coverings I decided on Solexx due to its superior quality. After calling the factory and talking to several employees about installation, I knew I had selected the right product and the right people. All were extremely knowledgeable and helpful, making the installation of my greenhouse covering an easy and rewarding experience.
I am very pleased with the end results, and my wife is delighted with “her” new greenhouse.”
Tom D., Manteo, North Carolina
We use our Solexx Greenhouse year around. I was amazed that anything lived through the past winter. It was the coldest and snowiest winter in 25 years — temperatures were below zero.
– C. Huston, York, Pennsylvania
With only a small ceramic heater, I was able to keep the temperature around 42 degrees.
Solexx greenhouse covering completes these aquaponic units designed by Today’s Green Acres! If you would like more information and learn how to set up your own sustainable food growing system, you can contact www.todaysgreenacres.com and tour his greenhouses in Elora, Tennessee.
A customers sent us this picture showing how he used Solexx greenhouse plastic to convert an old manufactured homes into a greenhouse.
“We recently installed a heated greenhouse in order to expand our horticultural program. We received a donation of a used metal greenhouse frame and originally applied greenhouse plastic poly-film as the covering. In the first hot day of summer the plastic became very brittle and fell off the frame.
Through research we discovered Solexx greenhouse covering. We liked the material and modified the installation. We joined the seams with the Solexx channels giving it a smooth surface which makes it great for rain, snow and inclement weather. It has provided a fantastic space for our clients to work. We like Solexx so much we plan on building a second greenhouse next year!”
The Tavon Center provides a day program for adults with disabilities. Ali Vafaeezadeh, Tavon Center, Issaquah, Washington
“We had fun putting up the 8’x12′ Solexx Gardener’s Oasis Greenhouse. If you separate the parts and follow the steps, it’s really not that difficult. We bought the 16″ exhaust fan, which is a must ( I feel ), and I am glad we did. I use T5 lighting and heat mats. I have a kerosene and electric heaters. My neighbors use it for their seedlings too. I LOVE MY SOLEXX GREENHOUSE. Two green thumbs up!”
– Patricia Y., Kelso, WA
The Nurse Tree Arch provides plants with greenhouse warmth in the winter and protection from the sun, wind, and pests in summer. The arch looks like a greenhouse, but when looked at closer you see it can be transformed.
Solexx is installed inside the removable window and wall frames to keep the arch warm in the winter and protected from winds and pests in the summer. (Click arrow to read more)
Aluminet shade cloth replaces the window and wall frames to reflect heat in the summer. This feature shows the “greenhouse to screenhouse” concept. The window panels can also be repositioned and used as rain catchers.
Below the roots of the plants is a 3 foot deep bed of gravel cooled by a forced air system that circulates air through perforated landscape drainage tubes to bring the humid air to dew point – cooling the bed in the summer and helping to heat it in the winter. This system is described in searchable web sites as the “Subterranean Heating and Cooling System (SHSC).”
A prototype structure that led to this approach deployed soil and air temperature sensors during a late June heat event with the air temperature at 114 degrees F. Inside the arch a sensor placed 6 inches in the sheet mulched soil read 83 degrees. Outside similarly prepared sheet mulched beds were 96 degrees 6 inches down.
This difference in soil temperature helps keep soil water available to plants inside the arch as they transpire. Solexx side walls and roof panels can be configured to reduce evaporation by shielding the bed from winds and containing the transpiration of the plants.
The arch structure and SHSC help heat beds in cold winter greenhouse locations. In this case, deploying shade and recycling water into the beds has proved to aid cooling of both basin and raised beds in a desert, summertime environment.
Adaptation to extremes of heat and cold by deploying shade and water conserving strategies is a central design factor in the development of the Nurse Tree Arch.
Michael Ray – Tucson, Arizona
Inventor of the Nurse Tree Arch and
President of Nurse Tree Arch Design, L3C
“Last Summer we purchased Solexx paneling for our “stick built” greenhouse and the nice sales person asked if I would send to you some pictures of the finished greenhouse.
We decided to garden at waist high levels so we built a concrete stem wall around the perimeter and are gardening in large wooden, pull out doors. Sliding glass doors turned sideways provide the see-through glass at eye level. We used the Solexx on the roof and on the West facing gable end of the greenhouse. Due to our snow prone climate, we were concerned about snow sticking and therefore made a 12:12 pitch on the roof. We live at 4,000 ft and so far the snow has shed off rather easily. Both my wife and I like the look of clear glass and the Solexx material mixed together.
Even on the coldest day so far (2.8°F) the temperature in the greenhouse has been above freezing. And so far the vegetables we have planted seem to be doing well even with the short days of winter. We are advertising a tomato fight inside the greenhouse on Valentine’s Day to our friends. (joke!)”
Mount Shasta, California
A happy customer in Eastern Washington used Solexx twin-wall greenhouse glazing to cover his custom-designed family pool enclosure. The diffuse light and humidity from the pool make for an excellent environment for plants and people.
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