Water tight outside nest lid

[Dutchess]

I have a coop that was built for me. The builder beveled the connecting edge of the egg door and the receiving hole to mate. I have NEVER have any leaks!

I can try to post a picture if anyone would like to see what I'm talking about. Gotta run right now, but I'll be back.

 

[SteveBaz]

When we add a external box I am going to make the lid the way they are fashioned on boats for the wet holds. First off the inside edge has a edge that sticks up about an inch. When the lid fits on or hinges down the lid fits over the top of the protruding edge so water can not run into the hole but hits the raised edge and continues on.

 

[Avonlea22]

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I'd like to see it, please.

 

[wolftracks]

When my husband would build my coops he used old tire inner tubes. You can cut them to almost anysize and one can go a long way. Never had a leak back then.

 

[petejd]

I read on here someone said to use the membrane that contractors use for the shower pans on houses. I saw at a big box store that they sell it be the foot. Just a suggestion.

 

[Dutch552]

Get a cheap bicycle inner tube for $3 at Walmart and slice it lengthwise. You now have the cheapest piece of rubber that you can easily find. I used this method on my people door at the hinge side to keep driving rains from penetrating my coop.

 

[swamy]

I'm a roofer and built my coop with hinged lids on the two nest boxes. I simply folded some 12 inch rolled metal flashing up under the siding and down onto the second to last course of shingles (be sure the joints are covered all the way down because this is the course water drains out on), with the final "dressing course" over the flashing to hide it. Nail the piss out of it on the wall and on the roof deck/lid. The metal will make a little crinkle noise at first but this slowly goes away with use. Good enough for homes....good enough for a chicken coop.

 

[Dutchess]

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I'd like to see it, please.

I will try and get a picture of it tonight.

 

[traildad]

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[gale65]

We also made ours to open from the face (front, back, side, whatever) instead of the top. I didn't want to have to hold up a heavy lid while getting eggs out. Ours opens to be a shelf type thing like fireguy's pic and we have bins that pull out. We put lots of caulking where the roof and wall meet and will add more if there are leaks.

This is the tutorial we used. We had to alter it a bit since we already had our opening cut when we decided on exterior instead of interior boxes.

http://www.thegardencoop.com/blog/2011/03/10/external-nest-box-plans/