Greenhouse Shade Support Clips

[halls]: http://www.hallsgreenhouses.co.uk/Halls_Forest_Green_Popular_8ft_x_6ft_Greenhouse_Green_Frame.htm "Halls Greenhouse"

I love my greenhouse, but it has a problem in that it catches the sun virtually all day and in Summer it can get unbearably hot even with the door and both windows open. Shade netting is the answer but it's a problem to fix because of the aluminium frame.

I've tried various ideas, the best of which was suction cups on the glass, these worked really well until things started getting hot and they fell off -Doh!.

I ended up cutting some green net shade material into strips a little wider than the glass panes and threading them on net curtain wire attached to the apex of the roof, with another net curtain wire at the meeting of the "wall" and the "roof" to hook the net behind. Finally inserting some 15 mm copper pipe, capped at both ends and filled with lead flashing off-cuts slipped into a specially sewn pockets on the bottom of each piece to help it hang