Sand Flooring - how much is enough & other questions...

[True Grit]

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Agree, that is what we did plus we have the french drain too.

 

[arcatamarcia]

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This is your problem. You have a non-draining floor on a slope. The rain will wash the sand off unless you do something to contain it. I would add a border of wood along the bottom of the low side of the slope. You need to make something that works the way a bowl does. The rain should drain underneath the wood border, but the sand should mostly be held back by it. If you can manage it, drilling holes in the concrete slab would also be good. More drainage is better.

 

[SydneyChick]

We can't do much to the slab as its an old barbecue area. The previous owners of the house put gas pipes everywhere...

We have a lot of old bricks that we were going to take to the tip.

So the currently plan is:

1) Shovel out sand & temporarily move entire aviary

2) Lay down ag pipe on top of slab in direction of water flow.

3) lay down old bricks all over slab around Ag pipe to create an elevated base for the aviary.

4) Use gravel to fill gaps.

5) Move aviary back on top of bricks.

6) lay down weed mat to cover floor & go up sides a little

7) lay down sand.


What do you guys think?

 

[The Lazy L]

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I think you're headed in the right direction.

My driveway to the pole building crossed a small drainage ditch. So I put in a 12" culvert (AG pipe?) and hauled in gravel. First heavy rain we got the culvert's end got plugged with branches and leaves. Gravel acted like a dam until enough rain runoff overflowed the top of the "dam" washing all my gravel downs stream to the neighbors.

So I installed a second 12" culvert! Second now acts like a backup in case the first gets plugged again. So far it has worked.

If I was you I'd put more then one "AG pipe" in before you build the coop floor up with the sand.