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I have skinned a couple of tunnels, a 30ft and a 60ft, never again! From what I know Northern are a decent company to use, through LBS.
Price wise im not to sure only ever been on a labour basis.
This one's 100ft long, with three 30ft spans. Don't fancy walking the guttering (was terrifying cleaning it!) so getting someone else to skin the thing for us. Looking forward to having new Thermic skin on- should help protect much more stock.
how big? I'm due to re-skin a 60ft next week, Charging Materials + £90.
100ft multispan (three bays). £90 sounds cheap! Really don't fancy working in the gutter again- standing in a flexible 8" diameter gutter with no support and on a slope, a good 12ft+ above the ground (not to mention the stock underneath) gives me the willies, so glad to offload the job onto someone else. It's bad enough cleaning the thing!
a little different then! The one im doing is mesh from ground to 2ft, then poly for the rest, Guttering is detachable on scafold clips - so will take it off, and its on the level with 3 foot between it and the next one... so maybe not as horrific!
At least a tunnel with a gripper rail is easier to deal with than one with plastic to the ground. Have used a brick bolster to hammer down U-bolts before, with people hanging off the rain to stretch the skin! Worst bit for me was assembling a large twin-span tunnel; ridge pole was 4m off the ground and there was no way to get lifting machinery in, so had to use a ladder. Only thing was that you can't rest a ladder on a hoop that's not supported by the ridge pole without it falling, so had to secure the ladder with rope and then lift and position long lengths of ridge pole!
Building that particular tunnel is the reason the company gets contractors in now!