Coop Siding

[CKfarm22]

What do y’all use as coop siding? Of course the walls will be made from plywood but what is put over the plywood?

 

[suburbanfarmermi]

I skipped the plywood and just did the smartside panels....... I paid around $38 per 4x8 sheet last spring. I am please with the way it turned out


https://www.lowes.com/pd/SmartSide-...tual-0-315-in-x-48-563-in-x-95-875-in/3058153

 

[3KillerBs]

I skipped the plywood and just did the smartside panels....... I paid around $38 per 4x8 sheet last spring. I am please with the way it turned out

Likewise.

Why pay for 2 layers?

For my Little Monitor Coop, the original (red), sides are T-111. After the remodel to replace bad chipboard (used where we'd run short of T-111 due to a "measure twice, cut once" failure), we used scrap SmartSide.

Neuchickenstein (no coop article yet), has fence boards over hardware cloth.

So, if your plywood IS exterior grade, I'd paint it and call it good.

If your plywood IS NOT exterior grade, I'd take it off to use for some other, indoor, project and use T-111, SmartSide, or Hardieboard (ultimate durability, but hard on your cutting blades).

Metal siding is commonly used for animal housing in the American south, but *may* have condensation issues in colder climates.

 

[Aunt Angus]

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This is it?

Yes, but the stuff I bought was primed. Think Tuff Shed siding.

And it's t1-11. My bad.

 

[Aunt Angus]

I was looking at the t-111. How did you put it on and did you paint over it?

I used a nail gun and attached it through the plywood to the studs. I painted it with exterior paint. Very easy!

 

[Happy hen lover]

We used t-111 siding cut doors and windows in it and peiced where we could. We painted it. We did wrap the plywood with moisture wrap.

 

[Aunt Angus]

I got my t1-11 for $5/sheet on Craigslist. SCORE!

 

[notachickennut]

What do y’all use as coop siding? Of course the walls will be made from plywood but what is put over the plywood?

We didn’t use plywood. We just nailed rough sawn cedar planks in stacked shingle style. It’s in the profile pic. Years later it is now a silvery grey.

 

[WIchickMama]

We wrapped our plywood in house wrap and added steel siding and roof.

 

[Aunt Angus]

What do y’all use as coop siding? Of course the walls will be made from plywood but what is put over the plywood?

I have had both t-111 and old fence boards. I really liked the t-111.