Help a girl out? Retrofit shed to coop...

[Paws4fun]

Question - if you put tile on the floor - then bed with straw....won't it be super slippery for you when you are walking in and out cleaning / changing water / food etc.?

 

[Jo Anne]

No idea about the rest, but the vinyl tiles (linoleum stivky kind) are easy! You just pull the paper off the back and stick them down! I would wash the floor with a strong mix of TSP (a super strong chemical cleaner used in painting and flooring) first and let if air dry, but a good bleach/water bath would do it too. Then, when the floor is dry, start in one corner and work your way across! I did the floor of my coop using the cheapest possible tiles I could get at Home Depot ($0.38 each), mainly because we had leftovers from redoing the master bath still. I even stuck them down when it was only 40 degrees outside and they weren't covered or protected! That was Jan/Feb...they are still doing great, in my (yet unfinished) coop! I was worried after several days of below freezing wheather that they'd pull up, but not even a corner has lifted!

I kneeled and sat on mine as I went...making sure they got a good amount of pressure! If you have a "straighter" corner, start there and work in rows all the way across, that way you just have oneor two edges where everything isn't "perfectly square" to deal with cutting the tiles. To cut, just score them with a razor blade and bend, they will break at the score line!

Good luck and I can't wait to see the finished product!

 

[Alaskan]

Pick what ever insulation you want to use.... roll insulation is I think less expensive than blue board insulation.. and the roll stuff is fluffy and so can be easily squished around corners and other obsticals, however I think it has like zero R value if it gets wet.

Anyway, tack up the insulation, and then cover it with the wall material of your choice.....

some people use the plastic shower wall board since that is easy clean. You can also use whatever plywood or OSB is least expensive.. since this interior wall is not structural, it doesn't matter what you use.

That means that you should choose based on how much you want to spend, if you like the looks, and how easy it is to clean.

If you want to cut corners, you can use landscaping fabric or feed bags to cover up the insulation, but that will only last one or two years.

 

[Paws4fun]

This is how mine turned out! I am pretty happy with it! It's fully insulated - I dug the wire in the run down a foot - and used patio stones as a floor in the coop (to keep critters out!!). I left the tin doors on - they will be closed in the winter - but over the summer months I leave the tin doors open and just close my screen door!! Lots of fresh air for them!! My girls seem to love it!! When I am home they are allowed to roam around - but I leave they have to go back into their coop - but still have access to their run (until it gets dark and I close it up for the night)
How did yours turn out?

 

[3baymares]

Emily, could we see the inside of the shed to see what you're dealing with as far as the bones of it
?