Articles by MSP
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Finishing up the Hen House! The peeps are getting big so they will move in before the house is done. This set the priority of what gets done first. I needed to get the wire on the run and the floor down in the house.
Linoleum floor tiles! This is looking more like a house now! The...
I changed my plans for the house several times always growing the house larger! First I was going to go with the duck house 3x6 and lift it up on 3 ft legs and close it in. When I decided not to house the ducks and chickens together it opened up my possibilities with the hen house. I had...
My Hen house build took what seemed like forever. I built it mostly by myself with a little help from DH, especially toward the end (thank you DH for helping when I was almost ready to give up). I started before my chicks got here and still ended up racing to get it done before they got too...
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On to the roof!
My floor is not PT so it was stressful to see rain in the forecast. The roof was two sheets of plywood, one sheet on each side. I definitely needed help getting that on. Standard asphalt roof went on soon after.
Asphalt worked out to be...
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Framing from here on was traditional framing of the window and door openings. This helped to make the structure solid. The framing kit doesn't call for this and relies on the siding to give the building rigidity. I wanted lots of windows so I needed more framing.
I am putting in 7...