Destruction of a Coop: A Diary

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Christy85

Christy85

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Feb 7, 2014
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My hubby and I have decided that we would like to keep chickens on our farmstead, and there was already a coop on our property. We were excited to start this year, but upon a thorough inspection of the existing building, we found it would not quite meet our needs. So the chickens will have to wait until 2015, and in the meantime, we're tearing down.

Original post (this winter):
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/855006/recessed-floor-coop

Day One (July 5):

South face:



West face:



North face:



East face:



Interior:



Edit: fixing images
 
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Day Two (July 6):

South face:



West face:



We spent most of the day clearing out small trees, and moving all the single windows out of the coop.
 
Is it not structurally sound? Good grief, it looks like it could be transformed into a great coop!
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So it's day four-ish today (July 13), a lot of this work is just a few hours at a time so it's getting hard to count. We found that under the corrugated metal roofing, there were very old cedar shingles. Unfortunately they could not be saved. DH figures they were 30+ years old before the metal roof was added over top.




Hubby is tearing the roof decking off presently. He says there is a lot of dry rot, very little of that may end up being salvageable unfortunately...




We're hoping to use the existing foundation to build a smaller coop with an attached run. My current working inspirations are the Tailfeather Cottage and the Sugarloaf Domino Effect Coop.





More pictures as demo continues...
 
Sometimes once you look very closely at a structure it's better to tear it down.

Did you find any water infiltration into the sunken floor?
 
July 21:

We spent the weekend scraping the paint off the siding, to keep the chips from falling into the dirt or on us. A home lead paint kit gave a positive result (no surprise, really). Working in humid, 90 plus degrees with a face mask on is not fun!

Layer after layer we find rot and decay. Every other swing of the hammer, carpenter ants and little eggs would fall all over the ground. Yuckkkkk.



DH got one face of the siding taken down today, despite the oppressive heat.



I can see why most old farm buildings are just abandoned or ignored, what a process this has been!
 
This has been very interesting to follow. A unique perspective in photos and words. A lot of hard work for you guys as well. I think you will really enjoy your new place, you have invested so much already and you have not even begun…

Best to you and your project,'

RJ
 

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