What materials do you use for your roof,

[mom'sfolly]

I used regular roofing shingles, I got them for free by dumpster diving at local construction sites.

 

[Corey NC]

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You can kind of see it in the pics but there are handles on the bottom and it pulls out like a draw that stays under the roosts and I can shovel the mess into a wheel barrel or something. The wood just holds up the draw.

 

[Brian]

SeaChick, how does your roof hold all that Maine snow?

 

[gritsar]

This farm used to have 2 commercial chicken houses that housed over 10,000 chicks a piece. Back in the day, they used alot of tin in the construction of the commercial houses. Guess what my chicken coop roof will be made of? Our human house also has a tin roof. I love to listen to it during a good rainstorm. Wonder if the chooks will like it?

 

[Pelican49]

The existing coop on my new property has a tin roof. When I bought the place last July, I went in the coop. It was like walking into an oven, even though there are trees all around. Where I'll be living, a tin roof just seems to me like putting them in an oven. Not sure what I'll be using on the new coop, but I'm getting a lot of great information from all these posts.

 

[gritsar]

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The trick is, I believe, to insulate well under the actual roofing. SW Arkansas is h**l on earth in the summertime in my opinion, but this house and our tin roofed outbuildings all stay pretty cool.

 

[sfisher]

Ondura, Have you ever heard of it. It is a coragated asphalt product. I made a parakete avarie out of it years ago, it last for ever. I am building my coop right now and I found some Ondure at Lowes. It measures 48"x79" and it was $15.00 a sheet. Good stuff!

 

[airmom1c05]

Wow! All of you that posted pics have such pretty coops and large runs. You will all probably laugh at mine. We just converted an old home made tin house for the coop. Notice the rusty roof. It has been patched. We need to grind off the nails and screws that poke through, but to be honest, Brandy doesn't go in those areas of the rafters and she is the only one who roosts high anyway. Her roost pole is a foot or more over my 5 1/2 ft. height and it runs right down the middle of the coop from the door to over the fixed window in the back. More recently (believe it or not from the pic) the pen was added on. It was relatively cheap and it works with just 4 birds and 3 of them are small. I want to add some hardware cloth with 1/2 in openings from the ground up to at least 4 ft. because the holes in the 18 gauge economy wire seem way too large to me. The birds can't get through them, however. Brandy is the only one so far who actually gets out of the pen when she can be watched and followed. I had no idea what things were supposed to look like when the pen was built. You can sure tell I'm a hick in the sticks.

Please excuse the messy surroundings. We had 60 mph straight winds yesterday, and this morning was so pretty I took pictures before I finished cleaning up.

 

[professor_yellow]

I like the tin cause there are enough small farm sites being demolished for development yiu can get it pretty cheap. I construct the complete roof system on the ground and lift it into place. Square it up, and use Simpson Tie clips to fasten into place.

For the frame I use 2x6 ripped down the middle to make 2x3 essentially. The i used 1x4 fece baords i snagged for the nailer boards across the 2x3 on 2 foot centers. Then screwed on the tin.
Then we just lifted the entire assembly into place. Myself, I use whatever is available for free or real cheap and do some "value engineering".

 

[SeaChick]

Brian,

We were worried about the snow but it has been FINE. I think because the roof pitch is steep enough. It may stick for a little while but as soon as the sun warms it up it all slides off. We have had some EXTREMELY thick, wet, heavy snowfalls, of 8-10" at a time, and the roof and structure are fine.

STacey