LOL, I have 2 sets of shower doors DH has scavanged to use in cold frames.

How clear are they? You might be able to use them for the top if they let some light through. Or, you could use something clear and transparent for the actual top of the cold frame, but cut one of these plastic sheets down to the same size so you can place it on top of the clear plastic, as needed, to block strong sunlight when new plants in the cold frame are just in the process, perhaps, of being hardened off to sunlight in winter and spring.

When we built our detached garage, after we'd lived here several years and had a shed that was overflowing with stuff, we built it extra large (1200 square feet) so we'd have space to park 3 vehicles, store all the stuff you need to maintain large gardens and acreage, and still have room to hoard material that can be repurposed. It looked gigantic when it was first finished and was empty, and then we filled it up very quickly. It was shocking how much stuff we found we put in there over the years, but it did pay off. Tim is more of a hoarder than I am, so I'm always on his case to clean it out and get rid of some stuff and reorganize it, but despite being a packrat, he usually can walk in there and find exactly what he needs in minutes, whereas I stand there and look around and ask myself "where would he have put that?".

A lot of stuff gets repurposed in the garden too, and while our son has been building his house (ever so slowly) with his own two hands, I have constantly dragged stuff like leftover pieces of lumber from his discard pile to my garden to use it for stuff like holding down row cover on windy days, or to block a hole beneath the fence dug by some wild critter trying to get into the garden. There's nothing wrong with hoarding and reusing useful material. We do reuse, repurpose and recyle. Or, to say it the way my Depression-era parents and grandparents said it: "Use it up, Wear it out, Make it do, Or do without."

Those plastic sheets aren't UV protected and will quickly breakdown and crumble in the sunlight. You might get one winter out of them but that's it.

Alright, mksmith, the plastic sheets will line the chicken coop instead. Thanks!

Dawn, our new (it was built last September) workshop -thing is 1200 sq ft too! We also built it to hold vehicles if necessary, but it's full of stuff. Tom is actually more of a hoarder than I am too. I have to have to be fairly certain that I can use something before I will save it. I'm a picky hoarder.

But...there's a lot of stuff I'm sure I will use in the future. I also tend to save furniture I can make cute again. I have done several pieces, but just not in the past 2 years since we've moved here.

and I will build the cold frame out of something else...