Half finished coop-chime in with advice please!

[WashingtonWino]

Hello all, I wanted to run this roofing and framing strategy by you-it’s a 3.5x7.5’ coop. I’ve built the walls and the base/floor and I made a roof today. The roof is 8 feet long, 45 in wide. I added some cross-bracing just in case. The roof is plywood wrapped in tar paper, then drip edge on that and galvanized over that. I live in Walla Walla, where the temps can swing seasonally from -10 degrees to 110 so I’m trying to do my best to build for 4 seasons. The triangular opening where the roof slants will all be wire mesh as well as the area at the front that supplies the rise for the roof angle. Plywood siding and trim goes on tomorrow then I’ll build the doors. Anyglaring problems visible to you handy folks? Chicken wire I know is a problem in my run, everything on the coop will be hardware cloth and I’ll switch out the run wire as budget permits. For now, my dog does a great job at keeping critters away.

Siding and 4 large cleanout doors coming soon

3-bay nest box will have metal roof and plywood siding


Detail of drip edge over tar paper on roof




Not sure what to do with the front above the nests

 

[wamtazlady]

It looks good so far to me. You've allowed for what appears to be very adequate vent area. I put a window in above my nesting boxes. It's open in summer, closed in winter. What are you going to do with the floor?

 

[WashingtonWino]

It looks good so far to me. You've allowed for what appears to be very adequate vent area. I put a window in above my nesting boxes. It's open in summer, closed in winter. What are you going to do with the floor?

Oh good! Glad you like it. I was thinking about windows above the nests, plexiglass ones with wire behind them that can flip up and attach with a chain to the roof overhang for summer. It might make my coop look like it's batting its eyes but whatever. The floor is done, just cluttered up with tools and stuff-it's an old door, framed in and supported from the underside and covered with linoleum. I'll have to seal the perimeter where the floor meets the walls with silicone caulk but I don't water the chickens in the coop so I don't anticipate anything REALLY runny happening in there. However, I never underestimate chickens' ability to make a mess.