Home depot sheds converted into coops?

[aubreynoramarie]

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Good to know, I have a brother in law who owns a concrete company!

 

[serenityNH]

We turned our shed into a coop and I am VERY happy with it

 

[aubreynoramarie]

okay THAT is super cute

 

[ZooMummzy]

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Good to know, I have a brother in law who owns a concrete company!

that helps! Yeah, the floor they give is really weak and spongy in my opinion. Plus I wanted something I could hose out from time to time so we are putting a drain in the middle of it. I would highly suggest painting the inside too. I didn't (too excited to get the chickens in it lol) so I'm having to go back and do that this summer too

 

[ZooMummzy]

Here is mine....

 

[aubreynoramarie]

Oh wow, that turned out really well! Thanks for the good advice, I'll make sure to do all of those things.
I was looking at the rubbermaid ones, they look really cute and are the perfect size and are inexpensive. They have vents and I assume are waterproof. They've got the outward swinging double doors which I really like for open-ness on sunny days...

 

[ZooMummzy]

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I was looking at those too but my engineer husband reminded me how hot...and how cold...they will get.

 

[serenityNH]

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I was looking at those too but my engineer husband reminded me how hot...and how cold...they will get.

FYI- We had one of those rubbermaid sheds a few years ago and it was SUPER hot in the summer, so hot that my plastic plant pots melted together-and we are in NH (not very hot here usually) . Also it was very flimsy the way it is put together which definitely made it drafty, the roof blew off during a thunder storm and the joints where it was put together leaked no matter what we did. We ended giving it away on craigslist after2 summers of having it. If you use one of those sheds I would expect to do a lot of work to it and add lots of ventilation and insulation in the winter. They might be cheap but I'm not sure it would be worth the amount of work you would have to do? Just my experience tho.
If you can find a good deal on a wood shed I think that would be a better option.

 

[aubreynoramarie]

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I was looking at those too but my engineer husband reminded me how hot...and how cold...they will get.

FYI- We had one of those rubbermaid sheds a few years ago and it was SUPER hot in the summer, so hot that my plastic plant pots melted together-and we are in NH (not very hot here usually) . Also it was very flimsy the way it is put together which definitely made it drafty, the roof blew off during a thunder storm and the joints where it was put together leaked no matter what we did. We ended giving it away on craigslist after2 summers of having it. If you use one of those sheds I would expect to do a lot of work to it and add lots of ventilation and insulation in the winter. They might be cheap but I'm not sure it would be worth the amount of work you would have to do? Just my experience tho.
If you can find a good deal on a wood shed I think that would be a better option.

 

[GLBRWyans]

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yep i saw that one, but i could buy a 4x4 shed for 100 smackers more!

I think one of the attractive things about getting a shed is that our new backyard is HUGE and in a shed i could also store the birds' food and bedding containers. Not to mention i would like to have a few more birds. Money isnt usually an issue but we have alot of things in this house that we have to fix before we move in, and its totally wiping us out.
I am going to check out some shed companies as well. i hadnt though of that. I drove by lowes this morning to look at their sheds. the steel ones were not as hot inside as i had thought they would be, but lowes seems more expensive than home depot. I dunno. were also thinking about getting goats to keep with the chickens since this yard already has a structure that would make a fine goat shelter. Do goats help deter cats and raccoons? those are our only predators.

You can put up insulation panels on the inside , and that helps a lot on temps .