Question about cleaning the coop

That coop looks very nice!!! I am a contractor so I see what happens when people use regular lumber instead of pressure treated outside. You should be fine because your shed will be able to breath "air is moving around it. You will run into a roting problem where the pine comes in contact with the ground and is kept moist due to the ground. I would suggest you go to the paint store and buy a product called wood restorer. It is kinda like a beach that people use when they strip their decks and re-stain them. This product should be scrubed on to the wood and washed off with a hose (make sure you wear gloves on old clothing). This product will prep the would for staining and give it more of a uniform finish. I would then allow the coop to dry for a few days. Finally I would apply a stain/sealer product like you would use on the deck. Make sure that you get the sealer everywhere and you should be good. How did you cut the wood for the shed? Do you own a lumber mill?......can you send me some more pictures of the coop closer up? Thanks
 
there is a mill down the street from us so we bring all of our wood there and build everything out of the rough cut. if we want to do something nice we have a planer and we will plane the boards until there are smooth. we did all of the trim in our whole house out of oak trees that we cut down and brought to the saw mill. then one winter we planed them all in the garage.

we dont spend much money around here... everything is handmade!! my camera is at my office @ work i will grab it tomorrow and take some more pic and get them up as soon as i can.! thanks for the compliments!

this is our "boat house" as we call it (even though we dont have any boats) that sits over our pond. it is made out of the same wood (cedar) telephone poles that the chicken coops are made out of. I took this picture on Dec 12, 2008 and uploaded to iphoto where it made the fade out border.

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