What materials do you use for your roof,

[airmom1c05]

I need a Galaxy_Man in Mississippi.

 

[Galaxie_Man]

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As much fun as building a coop for someone else sounds, the "honey" of my "honey-do" list would kill me for taking on another project, without finishing the ones I already have. Besides, I am not an expert carpenter. The difference between me and the expert is the speed and accuracy that the expert does things, which makes it profitable. I work too slow and methodically, which I why I am still a telecommunications engineer and not a carpenter.

Just for ha ha's, tonight when I get home I'm going to tell my DW that I'm going to Mississippi for a couple of weeks to build a chicken coop for someone. If you all never hear from me again......you'll know what happened.

 

[airmom1c05]

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I hope you are still with us. My DH works in finance. The best thing for me to do is prepare a big breakfast with plenty of soft scrambled eggs and homemade biscuits with honey and ask for the MONEY to have improvements made!

 

[Critter Crazy]

Cant realy see it too well with this pics, but we used Aluminum on our roof. We had some left over after building our barn, and it works great.

 

[airmom1c05]

Critter Crazy, I like the little door in the big door. Cute! I like the ramp better than my cinder block, too. I wonder what kind of primer I would have to use in order to paint my tin house? The tin roof is so rusty, I don't know if it would work or not, but the sides are still shiny.

 

[Galaxie_Man]

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We used that type of roofing a couple of years ago to build the BBQ pits at my firehouse, but ours is only a roof, kind of like a pavilion. It works very well. I don't know how it is in Binghampton, but we have a terrible problem in warm weather with wasps and yellow jackets building nests in every nook and cranny. I had to completely enclose and seal my coop so as not to have to spend time killing bees just to go inside. In 24 hours they rebuild their nests in my mailbox that I killed the day before. I am building a 12' X 16' outbuilding later this year and it will be as tight as my house to keep those little pests out!

 

[Churkenduse]

Sorry I took so long answering this, I am changing servers.

Churkenduse, your coop is GREAT! I wish I had known about nest boxes like yours. I don't think I could do that myself on my existing tin house coop, but maybe I could pay someone with some know-how to do it for me this spring or summer. It would be nice to be able to gather the eggs without going inside during bad weather especially. Does your laying box open from the outside?

If you look at the pic of my nest boxes (there are two inside)
see that it is just a box without a cover or one side, the top is put on after.
This is how I did it" I made a four sided box, one bottom and three (on a slant so water rolls off) around the outside. I cut a hole the same size as the box in hte coop. I then put 1x2 strips of wood around the outside to brace the box and screwed it in all around, I made a partition inside to seperate it into two nests. I put a cover on top and screwed a handle on top and two hinges so that I can raise the cover and retrieve the eggs.

You can do this as long as you put wood as a brace all around and some L brackets to hold it up.

Let me know how it goes.

It works well but they would not use the boxes until I put fake eggs in it now they fight over it.