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We continue to progress, as always things take longer than one hopes.
The floors are in and my sister is white washing (hydrated lime, salt, water) the inside walls. My BIL has done the hardware cloth on the window openings and on the inside frames of the monitor windows.
This morning I built the monitor frame and we installed it this afternoon. I expected this build to be straight forward but as @MiaS discovered it has it's own eccentricities. First I was given the windows so had to make the frame to fit the windows; they cover almost the entire width so lots of ventilation. As the couple of close in monitor pictures show the frame descends below the tops of the front side walls a detail that I had missed until I started to measure what I had built vs what the Woods book diagrams show and discovered differences (ie height from the top of the front side walls to the top of the back side walls) that I thought did not gibe. Closer inspection of the diagrams show that the portion that descends holds the front roof plate board:
My build differs in that I have added extra 2" by 3" boards between the two that are show above on the lower inside of the monitor frame. I did this given the cautions that @Howard E gives regarding snow loads (I will also use 2" by 8" boards as the center support for the roof panels); as a consequence I have the equivalent of a 3" by 10" that will hold the weight of roof and any snow load. I will also add jack posts under the monitor frame on both sides.
Onto roof panels and doorway at which point my seven pullets can move in.
The floors are in and my sister is white washing (hydrated lime, salt, water) the inside walls. My BIL has done the hardware cloth on the window openings and on the inside frames of the monitor windows.
This morning I built the monitor frame and we installed it this afternoon. I expected this build to be straight forward but as @MiaS discovered it has it's own eccentricities. First I was given the windows so had to make the frame to fit the windows; they cover almost the entire width so lots of ventilation. As the couple of close in monitor pictures show the frame descends below the tops of the front side walls a detail that I had missed until I started to measure what I had built vs what the Woods book diagrams show and discovered differences (ie height from the top of the front side walls to the top of the back side walls) that I thought did not gibe. Closer inspection of the diagrams show that the portion that descends holds the front roof plate board:
My build differs in that I have added extra 2" by 3" boards between the two that are show above on the lower inside of the monitor frame. I did this given the cautions that @Howard E gives regarding snow loads (I will also use 2" by 8" boards as the center support for the roof panels); as a consequence I have the equivalent of a 3" by 10" that will hold the weight of roof and any snow load. I will also add jack posts under the monitor frame on both sides.
Onto roof panels and doorway at which point my seven pullets can move in.
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