The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[desertmarcy]

Yea. Cheaper than plywood tar paper shingles roofing nails. Hell the roof use to cost me more than the entire house construction. People think its a metal roof. HAHA

What material is it? I am not familiar with it. Does it hold up to intense sun?

 

[CrzyChknLady81]

What material is it? I am not familiar with it. Does it hold up to intense sun?

If it's Ondura, yes..great for everything except areas with lots of trees and wind.. we've had sticks as small as 1/2-1 inch poke holes in it on our house..but without lots of tree cover, our barn roof faired way better..

 

[RIR-YELLOWLEGS]

Thank ya Loud Hen.  I've loved them for many years. lol Geez, I'm beginning to feel like an old grandpa chicken. ha,ha. 

Jimmy

yep ya can feel that way ,i feel like a old mother hen myself every morning my t week old jump up in my arms half of them fo the other half cant seem to uderstand why there sister are so attach to me and i am tryingto grt in the pen to feed them and then i have 20RIR chicks yrying yo get in my arms lol its a sight and i have w r r getting out of the pen to stay with me u have raised a flock of monsters hahaha but i love it and i know you do tooo!

 

[immyjay54]

If it's Ondura, yes..great for everything except areas with lots of trees and wind.. we've had sticks as small as 1/2-1 inch poke holes in it on our house..but without lots of tree cover, our barn roof faired way better..

It is Ondura and I have it on 3 of my buildings and I've had 4 inch limbs fall on it and it is fine unless it pokes holes by coming straight up and down. lol If it comes down long ways it isn't bad. I have a very large locust tree over my one building and it is forever loosing limbs and haven't gotten a hole yet and IF I get one now, I'm sending you the bill. lol Just kidding.
I've had some of mine on for at least 5 years and it is still like new. We have really nasty wind storms here and it has held up fine. That was my biggest fear. As for the sun (Desert Marcy) I don't think we get it like you folks but we've had some pretty hot summers in the past few years and it hasn't bothered mine. It seems to be pretty tough. Comes in 4' X 6 1/2 ' section. You do have to use the special nails to put it on with or it would leak. Comes in 3 or 4 colors I think. Can be cut with power saw. I really like it.

Jimmy

 

[NestingHillsSC]

What material is it? I am not familiar with it. Does it hold up to intense sun?

Get it at Lowes. It's like rubber. The sun will make it bend on the sides which is no big deal. I have it on 3x6, 6x12 and 6x6 houses. The bigger houses u need to put a cross beam in there. The smaller ones are fine. They hold up very well to wind rain snow etc.

 

[qball53]

Get it at Lowes. It's like rubber. The sun will make it bend on the sides which is no big deal. I have it on 3x6, 6x12 and 6x6 houses. The bigger houses u need to put a cross beam in there. The smaller ones are fine. They hold up very well to wind rain snow etc.

How does the Ondura hold up to critters knawing? We have coon and possum that chew through plywood.

 

[CrzyChknLady81]

It is Ondura and I have it on 3 of my buildings and I've had 4 inch limbs fall on it and it is fine unless it pokes holes by coming straight up and down. lol  If it comes down long ways it isn't bad. I have a very large locust tree over my one building and it is forever loosing limbs and haven't gotten a hole yet and IF I get one now, I'm sending you the bill. lol  Just kidding.   
I've had some of mine on for at least 5 years and it is still like new.  We have really nasty wind storms here and it has held up fine. That was my biggest fear.  As for the sun (Desert Marcy) I don't think we get it like you folks but we've had some pretty hot summers in the past few years and it hasn't bothered mine. It seems to be pretty tough. Comes in 4' X 6 1/2 ' section. You do have to use the special nails to put it on with or it would leak. Comes in 3 or 4 colors I think.  Can be cut with power saw. I really like it. 

Jimmy

Our is under pine..but you are correct. .all the holes came from smaller sticks coming straight down..bigger ones bounce right off.. dunno about the later question about animals chewing it..never dealt with that..we just replaced one that had been on for 20 years, so it definitely will last if installed right..

 

[desertmarcy]

If it's Ondura, yes..great for everything except areas with lots of trees and wind.. we've had sticks as small as 1/2-1 inch poke holes in it on our house..but without lots of tree cover, our barn roof faired way better..

It gets very windy here, so sounds like not a good choice for me.

 

[desertmarcy]

Get it at Lowes. It's like rubber. The sun will make it bend on the sides which is no big deal. I have it on 3x6, 6x12 and 6x6 houses. The bigger houses u need to put a cross beam in there. The smaller ones are fine. They hold up very well to wind rain snow etc.

What is it called? Heck, if the sun there in TN makes it bend on the sides, the whole roof will melt here in s. AZ where our sun is VERY intense for months at a time. I've got to build more pens so just looking at alternatives. Thanks.

 

[CrzyChknLady81]

It gets very windy here, so sounds like not a good choice for me.

It would depend on what type and size trees you have really close..the pine tree that dropped branches on ours towered over our 2 story house and the limbs came straight down. Unless your house sits under huge trees, it wouod be fine..didn't mean to make anyone think it wasn't great. .we just replaced a 20 year old Ondura roof with new ..
oh and they used to offer Ondura 'skylights' like an opaque sheet.don't know that they still do tho?