Double wall coop

[Molnut]

Hello fellow coop builders,
I am building a coop with 6x7 pallets and sheeti g the outside with recycled pieces of plywood. Because of all the slats and their potential to harbor mites I am thinking of building an inside wall as well to cover all these slats.
One issue I can think of is that this double wall might be a great hiding place for other pests (ie rats).
There is hardware cloth under the pallets and the double wall would be resting on it. I wpuld need to find a way to cover the to of the wall too (suggestions welcome ).
What do you think?
Thanks a bunch.

 

[aart]

One issue I can think of is that this double wall might be a great hiding place for other pests (ie rats).

It will...rodents and insects.....mites too.

 

[Cryss]

Hmmm...what if you covered the pallets on the outside with hardware cloth including the top open space BEFORE sheeting the outside with plywood? Then just plywood the inside.

 

[Alaskan]

Hardware cloth is your friend.

Make it solid hardware cloth the entire bottom and up the sides at least 2 feet. If you have lots of climbing pests such a squirrels, you might need to encase the entire building in hardware cloth.

Yep, a pain, and super annoying... but so nice, especially if you also did the run in hardware cloth.

 

[blackdog043]

I would just leave the pallets showing on the inside, less places for things to hide.

 

[Molnut]

Thank you to all for your replies. I'll leave it as is and DE the inside.
I have 3 feet wide hardware cloth all around the perimeters 9x14. 2' on the outside, 1' inside.
I have another coop that doesn't have hardware cloth on the perimeter. I was lucky for 2 years. This year the rats found it! It's such a pain. They are such tenacious little buggers. Retrofitting this one with hardware cloth next.
Thanks