Suggestions to protect shed/coop floor?

[-Olive-]

Hello, my chicks are in a shed which I’m adapting into their house. I would like like to put something down to protect the wooden floor, and then I could put loose substrate on top. However, it cannot be any kind of rubbery material as I have a bunny who likes to eat soft plastic and rubber!

So, something like what comes up when i google this but not a soft/rubber/foam material.

Thanks.

 

[BarnyardChaos]

I'm thinking laminate sheets (kitchen countertop material), or shower/bath panels, or sheet metal. Might be a challenge to cut these to fit, but anything flexible to make fit easier will be made of rubber or vinyl. I suggest making a template from stiff paper or cardboard, then cut your sheet(s) from that. Might have to make sections - seam them together with liquid nails or similar.

 

[BarnyardChaos]

Or you could install tile. Oh man that would be durable, but a PITA to install properly.

or maybe waterproof laminate flooring planks?

 

[Ted Brown]

BlackJack 57. Search herein lots of positive recommendations.

Inexpensive, waterproof, durable.

 

[Floof]

I would use the cheap roll of vinyl flooring that you can get by the foot from home depot and lowes

 

[NanaK]

BlackJack 57. Search herein lots of positive recommendations.

Inexpensive, waterproof, durable.

BlackJack 57 has been on my wooden coop floor almost 10 years now. It's worked great! I put 2 coats down. It had very little odor. When dry I covered it with shavings. I highly recommend!

 

[nuthatched]

Roll vinyl or a few coats of outdoor paint.

 

[perkolator]

What type of wood floor is it? Since everyone is suggesting a coating, I'll go opposite and say why not just leave it uncoated if you're concerned with bunny chewing it up?

In a dry environment, plywood can last quite a while, depending on the type of plywood. Our pet rabbit chews on a lot of stuff, so personally I'd consider leaving it uncoated if that was my concern. Our old coop was bare OSB inside with deep dry bedding and at least 20yrs old - no compromised wood anywhere. Current coop I decided to paint the OSB with latex on the interior, pretty much for aesthetics only

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

I would use the cheap roll of vinyl flooring that you can get by the foot from home depot and lowes

This is what I used

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

What type of wood floor is it? Since everyone is suggesting a coating, I'll go opposite and say why not just leave it uncoated if you're concerned with bunny chewing it up?

In a dry environment, plywood can last quite a while, depending on the type of plywood. Our pet rabbit chews on a lot of stuff, so personally I'd consider leaving it uncoated if that was my concern. Our old coop was bare OSB inside with deep dry bedding and at least 20yrs old - no compromised wood anywhere. Current coop I decided to paint the OSB with latex on the interior, pretty much for aesthetics only

That will work in a dry environment (I see you are from California) but not anywhere that gets regular precipitation. The OP is from "GB" which I'm interpreting as great Britain (could be wrong). Unprotected wood floors will not last in that environment