Vinyl floor dilemma

[urbanchicksta]

Hi,

I was able to find some scrap vinyl in our garage but there isn't enough to cover fully. Any recommendations on seam sealer. Was also thinking of just painting the floor and using the vinyl as removable placemats as added protection without the commitment.

Thoughts?

 

[patandchickens]

Frankly I don't think you'd lose much of anything by just skipping the vinyl and priming/painting the plywood floor with semigloss exterior paint.

If you cover only part of the floor with vinyl, my experience is that unless you put a solid batten across there to hold the whole edge down very securely (either wood trim, or the metal strips used at the edge of vinyl flooring in *houses*, which unless secondhand are foolishly expensive), the edge will come up and start to rip and break and stuff get under there. The disadvantage of a batten is that it makes cleaning a bit more annoying, and provides crevices for mites etc to hide in if you happen to get infested. Don't think you can just staple and glue the bare edge, it won't last.

JMHO,

Good luck, have fun,

Pat

 

[Dogfish]

Bring the sides of the linoluem up the wall sides. Seal any seams or tears with caulk.

Use firring strips to secure edges, seal with clear silicone caulk.

 

[cutlass1972]

I put down 3 heavy coats of oil based floor paint in my coop (walls and all so I could just hose it out) when I built it last year and let it all set up in the sun for a week. After doing the deep litter method for 1 winter I can see the paint on the floor cracking.

I have a big piece of vinyl I picked up at lowes (the really expensive soft rubbery stuff too) I am going to clean out my coop really good and lay it out. I need to measure it and see if it is big enough to cover the whole floor, but if your hens are anything like mine most of the poo i somewhat concentrated in a handful of areas. I Am betting if I at least get the vinyl under there things will be a lot better.

 

[BankerJohn]

Duct tape ??? LOL

 

[EweSheep]

I used horse rubber mats, worked well for me.

 

[RocketDad]

I used heavy coats of oil-based high gloss white. I figured it would be easier to touch up shovel/rake/hoe damage than to deal with caulking the inevitable doinks.

I used a white silicone sealant caulk for the screws and seams on my walls, which are white melamine-faced Masonite. I knocked down any high spots to keep the rocket scientists from eating it.

 

[Gypsi]

The more I read, the more I like the pond liner flooring solution I read about yesterday. Don't have to tack it down, deep litter all I want, do need wide double doors so I can fold it and pull it out, go straight to the compost pile.

 

[peepacheep]

Pond liner for flooring? What a great idea!

 

[Dogfish]

All I do is put the wheelbarrow at the door and in a minute it is empty.