Building your greenhouses is only half of the battle when it comes to ensuring your plants flourish in the right environment; glasshouses must be diligently maintained to ensure continued success for growers, nurseries, and garden centres. Shading your greenhouse is vital to maintaining your plant stock. With the varying weather conditions, especially in the United Kingdom, it’s important to stay on top of every aspect of glasshouse maintenance.

GVZ now offers a new Drone Shading Service as an alternative to our manual greenhouse shading service. Drone shading is the new way to shade your glasshouse, saving on time and money due to the nature of the drone shading process.

Our drone is operated from the ground by a qualified technician, which makes shading your glasshouses a lot safer through avoiding walking on top of your glass roofs. The drone is flown over your greenhouse and sprays each row of glass panels in a highly controlled fashion, ensuring a more even application of shading agents with very little going to waste.

The drone shading of glasshouses is also a lot faster and reduces the time we spend on site, allowing you to get back to business sooner than when using the traditional manual method of greenhouse shading. When spraying, the XAG drone can cover 1 hectare per hour, which heavily reduces the time we would spend on site versus the traditional manual shading method.

We have our own stock of various shading paints and agents, so we’re able to start shading your greenhouses as soon as you’re ready. However, we’re always happy to acquire the right shading agent you need for your glasshouse.

Interested in our drone spraying services? Feel free to get in touch by calling 01206 230729 or emailing sales@gvzglasshouses.co.uk.

To summarise:

The Benefits of Drone Spraying:

• A more even application using less shading agent
• Faster and more accurate coverage over a larger area
• Less time spent on site
• Cost-effective and more environmentally friendly
• Drones operated from the ground are safer and reduce chances of damaging your greenhouse

*Please note: Drone shading of greenhouses is seasonal, limited by weather conditions. If you’re planning to shade your glasshouse using drone technology, please keep this in mind.