Help with run door gap

[Chickamams]

Let me start off by saying I’m not handy! This was painstaking for us; we buried hardware cloth surrounded edges with bricks and there’s an electric wire around perimeter. Coop Knox bc my yard is a coyote and raccoon highway. We need help. This is the walk in run with my coop inside but the door has a gap! My makeshift way was to drill holes in a board and screw it to the hardware cloth at night using claps so there’s no gap. It’s a hassle. I don’t want mice or rats or worse. I’m looking for a solution but keep in mind the doorway is small! Any suggestions for someone who can barely use a drill and easy saw work?

 

[rosemarythyme]

What I did was overlap the hardware cloth around the edge to cover the gap, so basically when the door closes the hardware cloth overextending the edges hits the hardware cloth that's overextended on the run edge. I know the overlap is very hard to see in the photo. Only thing that sucks is now my door can only swing one way. (The white thing is just a wire shelf to keep hens from spilling out when I open the gate.)

 

[WhyDoILikeChickens]

Let me start off by saying I’m not handy! This was painstaking for us; we buried hardware cloth surrounded edges with bricks and there’s an electric wire around perimeter. Coop Knox bc my yard is a coyote and raccoon highway. We need help. This is the walk in run with my coop inside but the door has a gap! My makeshift way was to drill holes in a board and screw it to the hardware cloth at night using claps so there’s no gap. It’s a hassle. I don’t want mice or rats or worse. I’m looking for a solution but keep in mind the doorway is small! Any suggestions for someone who can barely use a drill and easy saw work?

It may have been painstaking but it looks like you did a pretty good job. Give your self some credit. I agree with other post, can just trim hardware cloth or welded wire to fit around the edges and reduce the gap. Cut to fit and zip tie it in place.
Yes the gap needs to be addressed. I had a gap not even wide as a hand and watched a raccoon run through it without slowing down.

 

[WhyDoILikeChickens]

Wait is the fence in fact electrified? I'm not an electric fence expert but if you have buried hardware cloth connected to any of the energized fencing it might discharge itself?

 

[Chickamams]

What I did was overlap the hardware cloth around the edge to cover the gap, so basically when the door closes the hardware cloth overextending the edges hits the hardware cloth that's overextended on the run edge. I know the overlap is very hard to see in the photo. Only thing that sucks is now my door can only swing one way. (The white thing is just a wire shelf to keep hens from spilling out when I open the gate.)

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Thanks I’ll try that too; I have the same issues because of the electric wire I have to open the door in so I put bricks to stop me in case I forget

 

[Chickamams]

Wait is the fence in fact electrified? I'm not an electric fence expert but if you have buried hardware cloth connected to any of the energized fencing it might discharge itself?

If you look at the second picture there’s a black thing in corner that floats the electric wire away from fence at the corners. So it’s just the wire not the fence that electrifies. I step over it as it’s only 5” from ground. There’s a grounding rod too and it’s all set on a timer at night to go on with a camera in the coop.

 

[Chickamams]

It may have been painstaking but it looks like you did a pretty good job. Give your self some credit. I agree with other post, can just trim hardware cloth or welded wire to fit around the edges and reduce the gap. Cut to fit and zip tie it in place.
Yes the gap needs to be addressed. I had a gap not even wide as a hand and watched a raccoon run through it without slowing down.

Thanks I’m glad you said that because some days it takes me a bit to get down there in evenings to put my board up. Also I’ve seen raccoons and coyotes during the day out so I know I should have a solution for the gap in place.

 

[Chickamams]

He did it! 1” pvc with hardware cloth with pvc Snap hinges finally a door solution