NEW COOP for Snowflake Farm

[City Farmer Jim]

I have a question for the people who may(or not) read about the new coop I am going to build. What does everyone want to see...step by step or a finished coop with all the details. Pictures will be attached also when.

 

[aart]

Drawings, before you buy lumber or build.
Seeing a build in progress is always nice to follow.

 

[City Farmer Jim]

So this is a VERY rough draft of the plan which is mostly in my head ...I know I know thats a scary thought. The basic idea is 4 - 14x27 windows in the sidewalls with 8"x10' overhangs covered with 1/2"x1/2" hardware cloth, a 2"wide x 10' ridge vent PLUS 2 dormer windows size yet to be determined but they will be tilt out with automated open and close at an open temperature of 75 degrees and close at 70 degrees.
I have started construction and here is what I have done so far. First I had to move the old coop out..I attached 6 2x4s, 2 on each of the base 4x4 legs and 1 on each end for lifting. I raised the coop and put 5 6 foot pieces of 2" pvc pipe under the coop an rolled it to the new location. Next I purchased 3 4x6x10 posts as a base...then 2 2x6x10 pressure treated ground contact boards, 14 2x6 joist hangers with 9 2x6x8 pressure treated ground contact boards. 5 pounds of 3" deck screws. Then the fun begins, after cutting the 9 8 foot to 93 " I laid out the 2 10 foot boards with 7 layout 16" on center for the floor joists. As you can see I had EXCELLENT supervision on EVERYTHING that has to do with the new coop. I'm sad to say that it is not square...it is 5/16 out of square...I ask my a girl supervisor crew for a variance and they agreed. I have bored y'all long enough for today...next will be putting on the deck and laying out and cutting roof rafters...YIPPEE I get to do MATH and the thirum used to calculate rafters.

 

[City Farmer Jim]

This is going to be a lengthy post and probably be an article BUT its been so long in coming I'm going to just git-r-done. I lost track of the cost after the 3rd lumber price hike but roughly 40% more that I had figured on in December 2020
The floor is setting on 4x6x10 treated lumber with 2x6x8 floor joists and covered with 3/4 tongue and groove plywood. The walls are 2x4 by 80 inches making an 84(7 ft) head height. Everything is on 16 inch centers. The walls are all screwed down to the floor with 6 inch timberlok screws every 16 inches because we live in south Texas in a hurricane area.. The last picture shows a couple of roof trusses to test fit of them. I apparently forgot to show how I built them on the floor before setting the walls in place. I used the bare floor to lay them out. I did some YOUTUBE research on how to figure out the angle(s) and way to lay out patern. I used some of the leftover 3/4 plywood for the top joint gussets and the top joints were screwed together with 6in. timberlok screws also.

 

[City Farmer Jim]

We used T-111 prepainted siding the piece of trim was to determine what size to use...I decided 1x4 and 1x3 preprimed for the areas needing trim.

 

[BleuSaphir]

Keep up the good work! Seeing progress on new chicken coop are entertaining!