A personal story here...
In 1995, a little storm called Hurricane Opal made landfall on the panhandle of Florida. Though living inland about 90 miles from the coast here in south Alabama we are not immune to the storms that make landfall there. As it was the eye passed very, very closely over our area that night.
As the case may be, I had been working on a large garden pond and had a Firestone liner laid in. A roughly 80' pecan tree ended up bulls-eyeing the pond with a large limb landing in the center and breaking...which left a rather jagged elbow resting against the liner. Once the tree was removed I expected to see a gaping hole in the liner. No, not a tear in it. Tough stuff. I don't see a chicken putting a dent/scratch in it. The only thing I would be concerned with would be "weather checking" (some people term it "dry rot"), but I've seen some of this stuff laying around that has lasted now for over 20 years...not bad longevity!!!
Something else I ran into a couple of years ago was when I had a roof replaced on a commercial building. The material is a PVC material that is tough as nails. Bottom side black, top side white and comes in (I think) 6' wide rolls. This stuff is usually overlapped a foot, screwed down every foot, and then a 220v machine is used to "weld" the seams together. This is for roofing a building. If you are working with a small coop with six feet being one of your floor measurements this would make a very, very tough floor covering. I may use this for a coop roof one day, but it would involve completely decking the roof rather than using just purlins to attach metal roofing to.
But, getting back to the story at hand....yes, pond liner is *tough* stuff!
Best wishes,
Ed
In 1995, a little storm called Hurricane Opal made landfall on the panhandle of Florida. Though living inland about 90 miles from the coast here in south Alabama we are not immune to the storms that make landfall there. As it was the eye passed very, very closely over our area that night.
As the case may be, I had been working on a large garden pond and had a Firestone liner laid in. A roughly 80' pecan tree ended up bulls-eyeing the pond with a large limb landing in the center and breaking...which left a rather jagged elbow resting against the liner. Once the tree was removed I expected to see a gaping hole in the liner. No, not a tear in it. Tough stuff. I don't see a chicken putting a dent/scratch in it. The only thing I would be concerned with would be "weather checking" (some people term it "dry rot"), but I've seen some of this stuff laying around that has lasted now for over 20 years...not bad longevity!!!
Something else I ran into a couple of years ago was when I had a roof replaced on a commercial building. The material is a PVC material that is tough as nails. Bottom side black, top side white and comes in (I think) 6' wide rolls. This stuff is usually overlapped a foot, screwed down every foot, and then a 220v machine is used to "weld" the seams together. This is for roofing a building. If you are working with a small coop with six feet being one of your floor measurements this would make a very, very tough floor covering. I may use this for a coop roof one day, but it would involve completely decking the roof rather than using just purlins to attach metal roofing to.
But, getting back to the story at hand....yes, pond liner is *tough* stuff!
Best wishes,
Ed
