picture of my new coop still working on it what do you think

[Intheswamp]

Your coop is looking great! Lot's better than mine (which is non-existent right now

).

One benefit of building with sheet goods like plywood is that a large square of wood nailed onto wall studs will stabilize the studs and keep the walls from racking and leaning (you've see an OLD house that was leaning to the side pretty bad).

Using your picture I've drawn arrows to indicate a racking force that *might* affect a wall of your structure being as the short pieces of pallet material don't span great distances/areas...

You can help brace against racking by installing some solid boards running diagonally from upper corner to lower corner. This second picture shows kinda what I'm talking about...

I'm not sure how clear I explained that and I'm definitely no carpenter. One board per wall might even work ok. Hopefully somebody more knowledgeable will chime in about it.

It's lookin' good, though, keep up the good work!!! (that's a lot of work put into tearing those pallets apart and a nice clean cut building resulting from it!!!!!)

Ed

 

[schellie69]

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Thanks for the advice we are going to be adding shower stall walls to the inside of the coop part for easy cleaning, you would be amazed at how sturdy the walls are my DH staggered the boards so that the seems to do line up does that make sense I hope so but any way we are going to be working on the wall that will have the outside nest boxes and door to the shed, the coop door will be inside so I have to be in the shed part to clean it so that is okay we are going to use some Styrofoam insulation to help keep it warm in the winter DH is even going to add a window for ventilation luckily my DH is jack of all trades. I will post pictures as soon as its done which should be this weekend since we have clear sky's here for the next 3 days and DH is done with school for the semester.

 

[Intheswamp]

Sounds like ya'll got things covered!

Best wishes,
Ed