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    , no morebig sigh, a job well done.

    Awesome - where do you live? Hasn't the heat been miserable? I'm putting off building mine until fall.
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    Hardware cloth, 1/4 or 1/2 inch for run, roof and windows and tools?

    Really - painting it black makes it hard to see? Hmmmm...can you show us a pic? Also, doesn't the paint start peeling eventually and look like a mess?
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    waffling-decisions, decisions...

    Picked up my windows tonight - awesome - $20 each, Pella prairie style - very farmy looking and large. Just perfect. They look something like this: http://kettlewellconstruction.com/windows_pella_casement_arch1.html
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    waffling-decisions, decisions...

    Quote: Love all the climbing spots - until I got buns, I had no idea how they liked to climb. OK - back to chicken talk.
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    waffling-decisions, decisions...

    Still trying to figure this out - would feel better if bf offered any kind of assistance at all - he has not said, gee, why don't we build it together or we could probably do that...I don't think he has any interest in building - he'd probably help me paint. Maybe I'll pick up the book and see...
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    [updated] APPROXIMATE Cost of building an 8x12 shed or buying one

    Alienchick - I have a door just like yours - it's leftover from when I replaced it with a door I liked better that was more secure on the back of my house. Nice to see how it will look!
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    Re-purposed material - a lesson in recycling.

    ah...the creative ones...we await the end results with anticipation.
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    waffling-decisions, decisions...

    yes, I'm a believer in having extra materials - you never know how you'll use them. Got the build price from my handyman -he wanted $1,300 just to build the coop. I told him that I understood there was a lot of labor involved, but that I could buy a shed from HD for $650 and have my bf help me...
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    waffling-decisions, decisions...

    Oh - that's another thing - the guy who gave me the free wood, is also now offering me his free metal tool shed which is in pretty good shape - I'd have to take apart then it's mine. But I'm not thrilled with how tool shed's look - cold metal, utilitarian. But the fact that it's free and...
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    Illinois...

    Anyone in the west Chicago burbs looking for cheap sheds to convert - HD on 75th street in Woodridge has two metal display tool sheds it has marked down to $199 - they're sitting outside in the parking lot. You have to either dismantle or get a tow truck to move.
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    I was looking at Home Depot sheds yesterday...

    Yes, I saw a couple of metal sheds at HD on sale for $199 - but you had to tear them down and move them. I'm not that thrilled with how the metal sheds look - a little utilitarian, although I supposed you could make them look better. Right now the guy who gave me all of my free deck wood this...
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    waffling-decisions, decisions...

    OK - this decision making thing is hard! Part of me is like, just trying to save money, it's a chicken coop, do it on the cheap, and the other part of me is like, well, if you're going to do it and you've got to look at this in your back yard, do it the right way, so you'll be happy with how it...
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    I can't get my work in the office done!!

    LOL me too!!!!! At work perusing BYC, just called my handyman to get a pricing on building my coop, checking craigslist for cheap windows (just missed three great ones for $10 ea), daydreaming, etc.
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    OK, this time I think we are truly nuts.Chicken math gone mad

    OMG - it must be in the air. I have a half-acre lot in an unincorporated area of th west Chicago burbs. I'd always had a fantasy of buying the property next door, which is at least a half-acre, renting out the house and making the two yards into a farmette. The lady there is very senior and has...
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    Illinois...

    only unincorporated Wheaton - if you live in city, no go on chickens.
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