Leaky Roof/Floor

[Manhen]

Looks like the old barn is about to get a makeover. New roof, second wing, oak siding. Roof goes on this month.

 

[Manhen]

Looks like the old barn is about to get a makeover. New roof, second wing, oak siding. Roof goes on this month.

Can't put a roof on in the rain....even if you are as resourceful as an Amish carpenter.

 

[Manhen]

They did. End of March. Siding and attached pole barn (to be a open-air coop) due soon. Siding will wait but the addition will be soon. Also am adding almost an acre of fence. 6' tall 2X4 welded wire. Out of what I have, one bird of 86 flies over, even with a 2.5" bilateral wing clip. She is an Easter Egger. She will let me catch her now, kind of a daily routine. It stopped for awhile, she got out twice in one day, that's when I clipped her. But now, after a week she still does it. My wife saw it, she pauses looking at the fence, leaps up, wobbles on the wire, then goes over. Pshaw.

 

[Manhen]

The whole barn is dry now, with 2000 sq ft inside with a loft to boot. Walls still let air in, but they ARE birds.... Fencing is about 1000 ft, another 1000 ft. laying on the ground. Haven't lost a bird...

 

[Manhen]

So you fixed the roof but still have flooding?

Hey Aart, I thought I would update the leakless barn. It has porous walls, but that should only be a problem in the winter, and the adult coop area is being shored up. I have decided to really scale up and have ordered the fencing to turn the loft into pens for juvenile chickens. I have also refined my cage building skills to avoid being hazardous to the user. It turns out 1/2" hardware cloth fits into a typical kerf along a 2x3. AND my first home bred eggs hatched yesterday, 22 for 23 leghorns fertile and hatched. I think it's the bird's environment and Brinsea. 52 more in the second hatcher, and collecting Welsummers now at 6 a day.

AND AND, I have found a couple youngsters to clean out the barn/coop... oh yeah....

 

[aart]

So you fixed the roof but still have flooding?

Well no, fixing it would make it dry right? It was repaired as can be. There is another section of roof that feeds onto it so there is a lot of flow.. I think the roof has been screwed down enough that even those holes rusted through a bit. Dunno. I have decided to go with a aluminized, fiberous, roof repair compound that takes at least two coats, no primer. 6 five gallon $50 cans should do both coats. Just hoping for warm weather. Warm enough anyway.

Oh, you answered that one way back in January.

 

[Manhen]

Oh, you answered that one way back in January.

Yes I did, but things are even better. and the thread was deadish. It looks like I am going to offer leghorns and welsummers for sale from the driveway, with 3000 sq. ft. of housing and another 1000 heated this could be fun as it developes. I just wanted a multicolored basket of eggs you know?

 

[aart]

but things are even better.

Yes, I've been following, just not replying.
Glad to see you've got things buttoned up.