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Yeah, they were saying on the radio earlier that it's supposed to snow here in a day or three. But, hopfully it won't last long, lol. I still need to get screws/nut/bolts/etc...so I can't start just yet, but my goal/plan is to have the two pallets bolted together, sheeted, and the laminate installed on it before it leaves the garage. My SO hosts a weekly D&D thing every Sunday, so I'm gonna make those guys move it for me. The 2 pallets I have for my base are too heavy for me to move individually!
Looky what I came home with today.
I drove very slowly on the way home as I didn't have our tie-down in the truck today! I got the big sheets for $1.01 each! I love when they don't color code the culls in the bin... You can see my pallet pile in the left hand side of the garage too, 9 pallets sitting there and one more in my living room that is now in pieces.
I got them out of the truck and into the garage all by my lonesome! They got loaded into the truck by two guys...
You can kinda see the 2 pallets standing behind the sheets, those are stood up next to each other so that they are roughly 4' tall by 6' wide (the base of my coop on their side)! The new sheets are just under 4', but are 8-10' long (I'll need to get the tape measure out there)! The smaller pieces in the front cost me $0.51 each, I'm going to use those for window covers, pop door, etc...
And then... I went to Lowe's to see if they have the same good deals on culled wood. They don't (unless you get there on Thurs/Fri and happen to see the bin they put outside for 75% off once a week), but they did have mistinted paint! Not a huge selection, a couple of pretty banged up 5-gallon buckets of who knows what color, 1 gallon of interior paint in PINK, a bunch of odd colors in quart sizes, but those were all wood stains not paint, and 1 gallon of Commercial quality interior/exterior semi-gloss paint! Not only that, but it is darned near the same color as the green on our house, what luck! I happily paid the $5 asking price and even went as far as to buy one of the 1/2 pint sample cans ($1) in Sandy Beige to add a little color to the trim or maybe some sort of coop artwork!
Updated cost of materials list:
$2.04 - Pressure-treated 2x4's (4 at 4+' in length)
$2.04 - OSB (or whatever it is)
Free - 10 Pallets! (3 of the big blue kind...2 of which are going to be the bottom of the coop)
$4.40 - Pressed Boards sheets (3 huge full? pieces & 2 small pieces)
$6.52 - Paint @ Lowe's (MisTinted)
$15.00
Looky what I came home with today.
I got them out of the truck and into the garage all by my lonesome! They got loaded into the truck by two guys...
And then... I went to Lowe's to see if they have the same good deals on culled wood. They don't (unless you get there on Thurs/Fri and happen to see the bin they put outside for 75% off once a week), but they did have mistinted paint! Not a huge selection, a couple of pretty banged up 5-gallon buckets of who knows what color, 1 gallon of interior paint in PINK, a bunch of odd colors in quart sizes, but those were all wood stains not paint, and 1 gallon of Commercial quality interior/exterior semi-gloss paint! Not only that, but it is darned near the same color as the green on our house, what luck! I happily paid the $5 asking price and even went as far as to buy one of the 1/2 pint sample cans ($1) in Sandy Beige to add a little color to the trim or maybe some sort of coop artwork!
Updated cost of materials list:
$2.04 - Pressure-treated 2x4's (4 at 4+' in length)
$2.04 - OSB (or whatever it is)
Free - 10 Pallets! (3 of the big blue kind...2 of which are going to be the bottom of the coop)
$4.40 - Pressed Boards sheets (3 huge full? pieces & 2 small pieces)
$6.52 - Paint @ Lowe's (MisTinted)
$15.00