Good price for hardware cloth?

[TonySorrento]

Heads up! Wayfair has a special 10% off even sale priced items that ends tonight .. I just bought 2 rolls of 36"x100' 1/2" hardware cloth ... free shipping, no tax for a total of $197.40

 

[Dukeofhawg]

Awesome price.... Great deal! Good shopping!

 

[PoultryPedia]

Free or cheap alternatives to hardware cloth / wire:
WIRE SHELVES from an old
REFRIGERATOR, FREEZER or OVEN

Passing along something a resourceful idea that may be useful for some instances. These are often FREE and offer good, strong protection for window & ventilation openings!

Sources:

USED APPLIANCE STORES
If you ask your local used appliance store, they may cheerfully give you for free the shelves from appliances (esp. fridges & freezers) that they are about to send to recycling. If you think it would be good, you could also offer them $5 for a batch. Or bring them some cookies.

LANDFILLS
You can check with a landfill.
With fridges & freezers, the landfill may have a contract with a recycler where they have to give them everything. If the landfill does give you permission, open closed frig doors only with EXTREME caution because fridges dumped with food in them will billow out mold & rot. You DON'T want to retrieve those shelves.
With ovens, a landfill might be willing to give you shelves.

JUNKYARDS / SALVAGE YARDS
Some may have these shelves or other similar things that they would gladly sell you for probably a buck.

RECYCLERS
Call & find out if they will sell you some for maybe 50 cents to $2 each.
Some recycling companies' operating licenses forbid them from re-selling anything they've taken in as recycling material, but you can check.
Tips
It is best if at least two opposite sides can be against wood for solid fastening.

Fasteners

• Heavy fencing staples or bent-over nails.
• Strips of trim boards screwed through the ends sections of wire shelves into solid wood structures.
• Wood screws with washers. Use a couple washers where hole on first one is small so screw won't slip through, or small-hole fender washer.

Cautions

• The wide spacing of oven shelf wires can allow through rodents & small predators. You may want to use these only for barriers INSIDE a coop.
• Mini frig shelves can be somewhat bendable.
• Large predators with big claws--such as cougars & bears--may be able to get a good grip on shelves (esp. from ovens) & pull hard.

Also:
Free or cheap alternatives to WINDOWS:

GLASS SHELVES from an old REFRIGERATOR or FREEZER

I'm also going to add a separate thread to help spread the word. If you know someone you want to pass these ideas along to, you can also refer them to my site PoultryPedia.com for easy look-up, because I'm also starting a "Tips for Chicken Coops" page with these on there.

 

[OCpeep]

Hmm...I got 2 48"x50' rolls from wayfair a few weeks ago with free shipping. I didn't realize the free shipping was a special deal.

 

[TonySorrento]

Awesome price.... Great deal! Good shopping!

I knew you'd be proud of me, Duke!