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    New Octagon Coop Construction Underway - Progress

    Miters! We miter cut small pieces of wood for the corners that we could screw into from the side studs. We put two on each corner, one at 2' and one at 4'. We have covered the whole thing in plastic as there is a storm approaching. [crossing fingers] The missus believes the effort to cover the...
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    New Octagon Coop Construction Underway - Progress

    Vinyl Flooring Installed. Yesterday we cut to rough size the vinyl flooring and glued it in place. Then this morning I cut it to the correct size. Half Way Framed. Half of the walls are up at this point. Pretty quick progress. The frames are plumbed and then screwed at the bottom. We get them...
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    New Octagon Coop Construction Underway - Progress

    Middle Sections Pre-Assembly. We pre-built these sections for all the walls. Now we are assembling them. The horizontal pieces are each 42", three of those. The window/vent frame has two 10" pieces. The two long pieces are 63.5". We squared these up and screwed two screws per board. The screws...
  4. Z80GameCoder

    New Octagon Coop Construction Underway - Progress

    Half Way Framing. We got half the framing for the walls done. We have the two center parts for all the rest of the wall frames ready to assemble too. Looking good so far. I am very picky about things being square, the missus is not always so happy about my wish for preciseness. We did a big run...
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    New Octagon Coop Construction Underway - Progress

    Hey everybody! Thanks for following along! Hope to have much more progress tomorrow, and I will be sure to post photos of it. I will definitely put together a shot with dimensions and where screws went etc. It's something I would like to see, so I am going to get it done. Hope everyone has a...
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    New Octagon Coop Construction Underway - Progress

    Quote: I am 'letting' the missus direct the construction. I do the cutting of wood and the screwing pieces together. She measures, and figures out how it all fits together best. Teamwork. Quote: Thanks. I hope they do. They broke out today whilst we were busy constructing their new home...
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    New Octagon Coop Construction Underway - Progress

    First Wall Frame. We built one wall to start. This was to see how best to put it all together. The walls will have either a window or a vent in the top framing part. The door's wall frame will have the two inner studs out at the edge instead. All Wood Cut. After having built the first wall we...
  8. Z80GameCoder

    New Octagon Coop Construction Underway - Progress

    We started constructing the frames for the walls. I managed to get together sixty three 2" x 4" x 8' boards. Strategy now is to take the car to Lowe's. Go through about 40-50 boards (minimum) and pull out 10 decent boards. Trying to do more than 10 is painful. Then bring the boards back in the...
  9. Z80GameCoder

    New Octagon Coop Construction Underway - Progress

    Floor Installed. We positioned the floor pieces and screwed them all down on 16" centers, with a couple of extra screws where we thought it would help. I've put plastic sheeting over it for now, clamped down with clampy things and a couple of pavers in the middle for good measure. Walking around...
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    New Octagon Coop Construction Underway - Progress

    We went to Lowe's and went through at least 100 boards and came home with 33 decent ones. By decent I mean straight and smooth-ish, there's not going to be dry-wall covering these up, just some paint. We're going to try a different Lowe's tomorrow to get the remaining boards we need. It was a...
  11. Z80GameCoder

    New Octagon Coop Construction Underway - Progress

    Nifty-Chicken: I will definitely make a BYC Coop Page out of this once it is all done.
  12. Z80GameCoder

    New Octagon Coop Construction Underway - Progress

    Painted Floor. I finished painting all surfaces of the floor pieces, four coats of barn & fence paint. Not screwed down yet, it's a two person job to get these lined up correctly. My word, that is bright! The missus is not working tomorrow, so we plan on doing a run for wood for the walls. Each...
  13. Z80GameCoder

    New Octagon Coop Construction Underway - Progress

    Hi everyone! Wanted to give a quick update ... This part is a not so exciting ... Kind of like watching paint dry ... Well, actually, it is *exactly* like watching paint dry! (Enjoy your popcorn, for now.) Two coats on the floor pieces yesterday, putting two more on today. That ought to do it...
  14. Z80GameCoder

    New Octagon Coop Construction Underway - Progress

    Thanks for all the responses everyone! I am trying to keep the updates regular. Final Joists. Spot the difference? Oops, we forgot to include joists under one edge of plywood. So we quickly remedied the situation. Now we have a couple that are close together. We'd probably have spaced those...
  15. Z80GameCoder

    New Octagon Coop Construction Underway - Progress

    Nice gazebo! Joist Finished! We added a few more joists in for good measure. The floor should be rock solid with all those in there now. Corner Close-Up. Our design gets modified as we build. When we started off we made the main component the size it needed to be so that a whole 4' x 8' sheet...
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