Coop Air Conditioner?

[aart]

where the roof meets the walls it is open (I think that is called a soffet?)

Soffit openings would be here, doesn't look like they are open?

 

[3KillerBs]

Here are pix of my coop!

My first impulse is to pull the siding off the gable triangles and replace it with hardware cloth. Heat and ammonia both rise.

 

[Dhkoenig]

Soffit openings would be here, doesn't look like they are open?
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YES your outline is exacly where they are! Since my camera is sooting up you can't see them but there is about2-3 inches of overhang from where the roof meets the walls that is open along your line

 

[Dhkoenig]

My first impulse is to pull the siding off the gable triangles and replace it with hardware cloth. Heat and ammonia both rise.

oh I LOVE this idea! is there a way to keep windy rain from coming in through hardware cloth? Before you said that I was thinking just to cut a way bigger vent out where the little leuvered vents are on the back. Maybe replace those two little skinny vents with a big 15x15 vent with leuvers. Maybe i can do both but what keeps rain from gusting on them in the triangle space when that is on about the same or tiny bit above their roost height?

 

[aart]

YES your outline is exacly where they are! Since my camera is sooting up you can't see them but there is about2-3 inches of overhang from where the roof meets the walls that is open along your line

It doesn't look open from the inside, should be light coming thru, but instead I see 2x4's blocking where the gap usually is.

 

[3KillerBs]

oh I LOVE this idea! is there a way to keep windy rain from coming in through hardware cloth? Before you said that I was thinking just to cut a way bigger vent out where the little leuvered vents are on the back. Maybe replace those two little skinny vents with a big 15x15 vent with leuvers. Maybe i can do both but what keeps rain from gusting on them in the triangle space when that is on about the same or tiny bit above their roost height?

You can use louvers over the vents or extend the roofline.

 

[Brooks_]

Soffit openings would be here, doesn't look like they are open?
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Looking closely at the one on the right, there does appear to be a small gap.

I am concerned about all those nails poking through.

 

[Brooks_]

My first impulse is to pull the siding off the gable triangles and replace it with hardware cloth. Heat and ammonia both rise.

^^^^

 

[aart]

Looking closely at the one on the right, there does appear to be a small gap.

I am concerned about all those nails poking through.

Maybe, but probably not enough.

Yeah, those made me flinch too, I'd have to trim or bend them.

 

[Brooks_]

Maybe, but not enough

No doubt. I liked 3killerbs idea of removing the ends.