DIY Greenhouse Curtains ~ Emergency House Repair & More

I got the idea of using moving blankets as curtains in the off grid greenhouse during cold winter nights. The tiny house wood stove pipes disintegrated and I had to perform an emergency repair.

The mice ate out the fiberglass rope gasket on my old Sears wood stove. I could not figure out why it is so inefficient compared to my first year in the camper. Until I found out that the gaskets are all gone. The mice use just about anything they can for nesting materials. The wood stove is sucking air in above the fire which makes all the heat go out the pipe. It also makes the wood burn way too fast.

I got some sealer and patched up the gaps. Hopefully I can keep the greenhouse warm now with this old potbelly wood stove.

I got some moving blankets at TSC for only $5 each. I got some paper clips and ring binder rings as well. And a bit of rope and eye hooks.

This makes for a very low cost and simple greenhouse curtain system. I screwed in some eye hooks and then strung up some rope between them. This will hold the curtains.

I clamped on the paper clips to the moving blankets and then used the ring binder rings as curtain sliders. Using the paper clips I can remove the moving blankets in summer and get them out of the way fully.

Melanie helped me hang the moving blanket curtains on the ropes.

Moving blankets make the perfect curtains for a winter greenhouse because they are multi layered, quilted blankets. They are very warm and insulating.

We strung up the curtains on all three sides of the front of the greenhouse. All of the windows can now be covered at night to keep the heat in. I guess time will tell if these make any difference in there.

Back inside the off grid tiny house on wheels I had to let the wood stove burn itself out fully. The coupling on top of the stainless steel stove pipe disintegrated. There was nothing left of it. I dont know why this happened but it is disturbing.

I got a new coupling and waited for the stove to fully burn out the wood. We do not want smoke pouring into the tiny house during the operation.

Melanie helped me get the stove pipe down and I removed the old pieces of pipe that were left. There was not much at all really.

Then together we got the new piece into place and put the stove pipe back onto the wood stove and through the tiny house roof.

It has been a long time without heat in the tiny house and it sure got cold. And this was on the coldest day of the year. We had 3 degrees F that night.

We received some cards in the mail. Thank you both :)