Playhouse progress, the one from lowes

[tororider]

I just called the lowes in Southfield, they have 2 on clearance for $199.99, same with the store in Commerce twp.

 

[silkiechicken]

Thanks everyone!

I'll probably house maybe 4 silkies in it. Or keep a dozen chicks in there for the first 4-6 weeks before moving them to the coops with runs and no floors so clean up is pick up and move.

Graduation is this June IF I get my research done and my mini thesis written on time. I sure better get it done...I've got plans for grad school. :w00t

Which means this coop and the other 3 may lie nearly empty for 5-6 years after the summer is over.

 

[CarlaRiggs]

I'm so impressed!

The coop is wonderful.... you've done a beautiful job with it. Love that red paint! It's especially amazing when one realizes how busy you are with school, and how brrrr! cold it is in your neck of the woods while you're working on the coop.
Hate to tell you this, Silkie, but I think I like this henhouse more than your car.

 

[silkiechicken]

Thanks. It's taken over a month to put together and paint this "can be assembled in 90min" play house.

I'm used to the cold weather, the hard part was watching the temps so I could paint and have it cure right! The car even spent a whole night outside so the coop could dry under cover!

I picked it out 4 years ago as an early b-day/graduation present. It's 4th year abuse will officially begin on the 21st and it's holding up really well for being so old. I've got so many stats on the car in an excel file it's not funny. All the way down to mileage, gas prices, maintenance, and so on. OCD self has a hard copy in a record book in the car too. Trends are interesting to watch.

If I was to do it all over again... I think I'd ask for a full sized bed work truck because then I could buy even more construction stuff and not have to rely on my dad to use his truck. And I won't get laughter when I load up 4 bags in the trunk and one in the front seat... because that's all that fits. Shoot, they both would only get 20mpg at best. But hey, I was in my teens and that is what I wanted back then. I may have a teeny more bit sense now that I am old enough to get a concealed carry permit in the state of Washington.... or not since I'm spending so much on this coop that can hold so few birds. Egg sales will never cover this one... LOL

 

[JoanneNC]

To any of you who bought this playhouse and already assembled it , how did you cover the door window?
I thought about plexiglass but not sure where to attach it to keep the rain out. I have it almost completed but not sure about the window. Thanks for any help you can offer.

JoanneNC

 

[silkiechicken]

I used plexi glass on all my windows. For all the windows it is cut to about the size of the hole with a one inch margin around the edges that over lap the wood. The front window is just one sheet on the inside. I figure the chickens don't care how it looks. I then lined the inside of the windows with sink sealant silicone. Drilled some holes larger than screws into the plexi glass and screwed the windows on to the door. I should have gotten washers to put under the screws though to deal with the pressure.

I ran out of silicone and it got rained on so the next time it dries off, I will take another tube of silicone and line the exterior side of the windows with a good helping of sink and fixture silicone sealant, so that water does not get trapped between the wood and the plastic and start to grow green. Reason I choose to use sink silicone, is that if I ever plan to dismantle it or need to replace a window, I can take off the screws and pop off the window.

In addition, the roofing panels have a layer of clear sink silicone surrounding the edges so if we get blowing rain, which does happen at time since it seems like it is always raining here, water does not seep in from the top. When it is next dry, and have attached the building to the floor, I will put a line of silicone along the bottom inside and bottom outside of the building where the walls meet the floor. This again, will have to wait till it is dry. I am glad I painted all edges and corners, as it would have shurly gotten water damage had it not been sealed.

Edit: If I were to do the floor again... I would have made it square with the size of the building so water does not seep in at the edges when water collects on the lip on the outside... I'm sure people who have made floors before would have known this. I made the floor 48 by 48, but the foot print of the building is really 48x 46.5 or so.

 

[JoanneNC]

Thank you silkiechicken, I will be referring to to this. I know what you mean about the floor as we made ours a 48" sguare and have a small lip on ours also. I will be sure to add some silicone around it. We are also using screws on everything just in case we want to move it in the future. Thanks again

JoanneNC

 

[silkiechicken]

The good thing about the silicone is you can peel it off later if it does need to come apart.

I measured out the coop before cutting the floor, and figured the lip on the floor would be no problem... there's that lack of common sense and experience coming back and biting me. Educated in books, not educated in building. Still working on that measure twice and cut once thing too.

 

[Kaneke]

when we built our kit house, they included a "drip rail" .. a piece of concave quarter round molding that sits about an inch above the bottom of the siding ... so anything dripping down the siding is deflected outward, not oozing between outside wall and flat floor of deck outside at same level, deck is slightly pitched outward so rain rolls away from house

something like that might work wonders for you ...

 

[hensdeliverthegoods]

We used silicone and plexiglass on ours, too...works just fine!