Elevate Your Covid Gardening. Build a Greenhouse with Gavrieli Polycarbonate Sheets.

Our easy-to-use polycarbonate sheets extend your growing season—to 365 days.

Home gardening during Covid-19 saw an exponential spike as stay-at-home orders prompted many to busy themselves with new hobbies. A concern for food shortages and a desire for self-sufficiency spurred people to grow their own vegetables. Covid-inspired home improvement projects spilled into backyard-beautification projects. New flower gardens made outdoor spaces ready for social-distance socializing.

As Covid restrictions continue and Spring gardens bloom, now is the perfect time to take gardening to the next level with the construction of a do-it-yourself greenhouse.

The Best Color for Your Greenhouse is Clear. Clear.

So what material makes the best greenhouse siding? Clearly, the three most popular options are glass, polycarbonate sheets, and fiberglass. Review the pluses and minuses of each material, and polycarbonate sheets rise to the top of the list. Glass, while beautiful, is heavy, fragile, and costly. Smaller panes are typically used to accommodate for these drawbacks. That means more panes, more seams, and more joints are necessary for construction, which increases the complexity of any DIY project. Fiberglass is lighter and sturdy but lacks the transparency and longevity of glass or polycarbonate sheets. That leaves polycarbonate sheeting (and polycarbonate greenhouse panels.) Lightweight and durable, polycarbonate sheets are used in all sorts of public construction projects from covered walkways to arena skylights. But the material is perfect for personal projects as well because it is so customizable and forgiving. Polycarbonate sheets have a slight give; they bend without breaking (to a degree, of course.) Virtually as clear as glass, polycarbonate sheets actually do a better job of filtering out UV rays and diffusing sunlight to prevent hotspots that can actually damage plants. And, if you’re looking for something sturdy, consider that polycarbonate sheets are used around hockey rinks to keep spectators safe from 100 mph slapshots. Polycarbonate sheets are 200 times stronger than glass. In fact, this is the stuff used to make glass bulletproof. We don’t recommend using your greenhouse for target practice—but you don’t have to worry about hail, rocks or windblown debris causing costly damage—not to mention stray hockey pucks.

The Polycarbonate Paradox: Unbreakable and Easy to Cut

Unlike glass, Polycarbonate won’t crack or shatter while cutting. Easy to work with, no specialty tools are needed to cut polycarbonate sheets. Any circular saw or jigsaw will work. Smaller cuts can even be made with a box cutter. At Gavrieli, we can custom-cut your order of polycarbonate sheeting to your exact dimensions so it’s easy to install. We offer same day delivery in Southern California and we deliver nationwide. Our 100,000 sq. ft. warehouse means we are always well stocked. And since we can buy in large quantities, we can pass the savings to our customers, large and small. Polycarbonate sheets have a lifespan of about 10 years when treated with UV protection that prevents yellowing and breakdown. And because they are so light and customizable, it’s easy and inexpensive to remove and replace any section that begins to show its age.

What Can Top All This? Selecting the Right Greenhouse Roof.

For your greenhouse rooftop, the Gavrieli brand corrugated polycarbonate greenhouse panels are easy to clean and extremely durable. With a light transmission of up to 90% for clear sheets, its optical property is almost equal to that of glass. Our greenhouse panels are treated with a factory-applied condensation control, eliminating condensation drop formation to retain the highest level of transparency. For all these reasons, Gavrieli corrugated greenhouse panels are the top choice to top your greenhouse.

Why Gavrieli? Why Now?

Once Covid has passed—and it will pass—no one wants to go back to business as usual. Our lives have been up-ended and now is the perfect time to assess what parts of the Covid reality we will choose to keep. More time with family. Exploring new hobbies and recipes. Making our home our sanctuary. Let this be the legacy of Covid-19, that we discovered new ways to grow. And how better to continue our growth than building a greenhouse that provides beauty, nutrients, activity and warmth. At Gavrieli Plastics, Metal and Sign Supplies, you will find all the materials you need to build a durable structure of any size at an affordable price. Anyone forced to tighten their purse strings during the Covid pandemic knows it pays to shop around to find the best deals.

Gavrieli has been the leader in revolutionizing the materials and supplies industry in Los Angeles since 1985. Our large local warehouse means, we’re able to bring you the supplies you know and love while keeping a large inventory at affordable prices. Since we are direct buyers and importers from local and foreign manufacturers in large quantities, our products are often exclusively manufactured to meet the needs of our customers. This allows us to provide unbeatable prices and a large variety of options in stock. So we are ready to supply what you need right when you need it. We carry a wide and varied selection of the most well-known names and brands you trust at the best price. As the largest plastic, metal and sign supplier in Southern California, we guarantee our everyday price cannot be beat. We also offer wholesale prices to industry professionals. And due to our high standards of quality control and our strict adherence to rigorous federal regulations, we only offer the highest quality materials—often for half the price of our competitors.

Ultimately, It’s All About Health.

How ironic that Covid-19 will ultimately lead to a healthier world. Once the masks are gone and hugs and handshakes are back, those bitten by the gardening bug will benefit from more time outside. Cultivating plants and weeding gardens improve our mental state. It’s about health. And something as simple to use as polycarbonate sheets make that reality more available than ever—year round—in all the new greenhouses soon to be sprouting up nationwide.