Don’t think this is the right section, but didn’t know where else to post.

In your climate and at those temps I would keep that gap open and rest well knowing they are fine.

Here in Colorado I have open soffits, windows kept open an inch or so and temps headed to -13(ish). In a few decades of keeping chickens in this climate and with the kind of ventilation I listed I have only ever even seen one mild case of frostbite and that was on a leghorn who chose to sleep in a nest box.

Our high for Sunday will be 3. Yup just 3. Today was in the low teens for the high.

First winters can be hard on the chicken caretakers. Hang in there it gets easier.
 
Draft-free means no wind blowing directly on the roosts.

A coop that is draft-free and well-ventilated has the ventilation above the birds' heads when they are sitting on their roosts.

Chickens have built-in down parkas. If they are dry and out of the wind they can easily cope with temperatures down to and even below 0F.
 
There’s actually a 8 inch gap that I didn’t get to wrap plastic around. Coop is about 4x8 and the sleep on the oposite side of where I didn’t get to wrap plastic around
You do not want the draft to be where it can blow directly on them. So, if it is higher up than where they roost it should be okay. They are your chickens and you know what conditions they have better than anyone else. If you feel like you need to move them then follow your gut and move them into your garage.
 
There’s actually a 8 inch gap that I didn’t get to wrap plastic around. Coop is about 4x8 and the sleep on the oposite side of where I didn’t get to wrap plastic around

That's good. Do NOT attempt to wrap it all up to trap in heat - ventilation is more important than heat and your cold temperatures are so warm compared to many other areas that there's no need to worry about cold at all. However you can still get frostbite as high as the point of freezing if there is not adequate ventilation to let moisture out.
 

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