I am a 60 year old woman and this playpen took me just a few hours to make. My tips would be to assemble it completely and then draw a line from one joint to the next as the "angle" is very important. Then you can go back and glue it all together. There is a metal pipe inside of the PVC that makes up the "roof" to offer support and a little weight so it doesn't blow away. All PVC pipe and joints are 1 inch thin wall pipe. What I used: 2@3/4 inch 10 foot conduit metal pipe, 7@ 10 feet pvc, 4@5 feet pvc, 8-"T" pvc joints/elbow, 6-90 degree pvc joints/elbow, the pvc glue (can comes with a brush inside - yeah!), and pvc primer (also with a brush inside)
. The only cuts you'll need to make is to cut two of the 10 foot pvc pipes into 86" pipes using a hacksaw....these make up the base of the end triangles, the 5 footers make up the sides of the triangle. You will need the scraps to make small 2" pieces that you'll use to join the "elbows" to the pipes. Don't worry, there is a ridge inside the pipes so you can't push them in to far when you are joining everything. I then used heavy duty deer fence to cover it (this is very flexible but strong netting), securing it with small zip-ties. I used carabiners as my locks, making myself a "door" on the end of the triangle. You'll notice I also hung old cds/dvds to keep the hawks from dive bombing the run. I find that I can easily drag this around to different parts of my pasture as I lost birds two days after they were "free ranging". The trickiest part is watching the angles of the elbows when you are connecting it all up...as I said, do a total dress rehearsal before you start to glue, and mark the pipes by drawing a line straight across the joints, then line up the "marks" when it comes time to glue. I hope this works for you. The stuff was $45 plus $40 for the deer fencing...which I have A TON left-over!! I totally misjudged on that one. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words....
