Moisture barrier under sand

[3KillerBs]

It's 7 feet deep...and the way the front is I could add an overhang like the R picture fairly easily. We have a metal roofing sales place in our county so getting some of their "surplus" metal won't be a problem, they even cut it to your length for you. This shed has been on our farm for 50 years or more...my father in law built it for a lawnmower/work shed out of rough cut lumber from our farm but most of that heart pine lumber is not very good anymore. I plan to salvage as much as possible to use in other places on the coop. I couldn't bring myself to tear it down and I've been wanting some chickens so a light bulb came on one day and I decided to take on the rehab of it so I could become a new chicken owner!! LOL

That's wonderful!

Both renewing a family heirloom and the ability to get scrap metal roofing.

We worked with metal roof for the first time last year and were delighted at how easy it was to use -- given a set of electric metal shears and a DeWalt 20V impact driver with self-tapping screws.

https://www.harborfreight.com/18-gauge-35-amp-metal-shears-61737.html?_br_psugg_q=metal+shears Great for cutting hardware cloth too.

https://www.dewalt.com/product/dcf885c1/20v-max-14-impact-driver-kit (I'm so nuts on these DeWalt 20V tools they should pay me to endorse them. I've never had tools small enough and light enough for my hands before.)

 

[mossyoakpro]

That's wonderful!

Both renewing a family heirloom and the ability to get scrap metal roofing.

We worked with metal roof for the first time last year and were delighted at how easy it was to use -- given a set of electric metal shears and a DeWalt 20V impact driver with self-tapping screws.

https://www.harborfreight.com/18-gauge-35-amp-metal-shears-61737.html?_br_psugg_q=metal+shears Great for cutting hardware cloth too.

https://www.dewalt.com/product/dcf885c1/20v-max-14-impact-driver-kit (I'm so nuts on these DeWalt 20V tools they should pay me to endorse them. I've never had tools small enough and light enough for my hands before.)

I'm still running 18 volt Dewalt right now....but it's tough to find the batteries now so I'll be making the switch at some point. Thanks again for all your input!!

 

[3KillerBs]

I'm still running 18 volt Dewalt right now....but it's tough to find the batteries now so I'll be making the switch at some point. Thanks again for all your input!!

We had the old Firestorm portables before, but they're mostly too heavy for me.

 

[NatJ]

Reckon I could put the hardware cloth down....then add some of those big square pavers and then sand on top of those??

If you cover the whole area with pavers, you should be able to skip the hardware cloth.

I don't know what's best, just saying that hardware cloth OR pavers is probably enough to keep out predators, rather than using both.