What materials do you use for your roof,

[Cheryl]

We have a sun-tuf roof in a light smokey gray....It covers the run as well as the roof! My girls are spoiled...of course not too spoiled, the pen still isn't wired, just ran out of time before winter hit!

 

[bamagirl68]

I love your tractor! I am all for reusing anything when possible. And I definitely think the shower curtain is a brilliant idea!I would have never known by just looking at it! Great job!

 

[lurky]

This is the metal roofing we got from home depot.....My husband said he will never use anything but this stuff again. It was so easy and quick to put up. Sorry the picture is not too great....its the only one i got.

 

[Churkenduse]

This is the metal roofing we got from home depot.....My husband said he will never use anything but this stuff again. It was so easy and quick to put up.

Lurkey, I notice alot of screws, was that your DH idea, does it come with holes I have to fill, because I like this too, another option, but I cannot reach the back to screw them in, my coop is up agains the house. I am not a fan of ladders either.

thanks​

 

[lurky]

It does come with screws, but he probably did not HAVE to do so many. He tends to do things to last 4 a zillion years. I think you can probably do whatever you want with it. I think it depends on where you live too. Being on the vermont line, he builds for the worst winter weather he remembers. I think you would use less screws. You can ask wherever it is sold near you.

 

[Corey NC]

Here are a couple of pictures of the roofing on one of my coops, the first pic is before we expanded it and the last pics are after we expanded it.

 

[Buckguy20]

Anyone ever use wonderboard.? It is heavy but almost indestructible.

 

[Churkenduse]

Corey NC, very nice, I should have used those corner stones, I was dumb it is too late now.

Love you pics. On the last one you have wood sticking out is there a use for that?

lurky Thanks I am kinda Like that too but I can't with this cause I can't lean over that far, but I do like that roof.
I love all of your picutres!!

Any other ideas?

Anyone ever use wonderboard.? It is heavy but almost indestructible.

That is the one with the cement in it like a sandwich? They is plenty heavy, usually used on floors, we used it, sometimes my guys would use it for porblem floors evens out nicely. Too heavy for me.

 

[chickbea]

My winter coop has a tin roof, and my various smaller summer coops are shingled. Who knew how much fun shingling was - it's the perfect activity for obsessive-compulsives who like to pattern things!

 

[patandchickens]

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Metal roofing does not come with holes -- you either predrill 'em where you want 'em, or if you are like most people you just start each screw with a sharp whack from a hammer and then screw it right thru. You have to (well, OUGHT to) use special self-tapping rubber-gasketed screws sold specifically for this purpose. They zip right thru the metal and wood, and the gasket keeps them from leaking water thru the hole they make. Well, unless you over- or undertighten them. You use a hex-head driver on a power drill, and it goes really fast, the slowest part is just being careful to get each panel on STRAIGHT so your roof edges dont go all cattywhompus as you go along.

You may need a bit of a ladder depending on coop height, but you do NOT need to crawl up on the roof to put the tin on. The best way to install it (if you want to avoid roof-crawling) is to NOT have it on plywood, just put 2x4 stringers across the rafters at two foot intervals. You then screw each roof tin panel on individually (they run from the top to the bottom of your roof and are like 20" wide or something like that) -- you 'pop up' between rafters to get at the 'high end' screws, standing on a ladder where needed. Does that make sense? Then if you want to insulate the underside to minimize heat loss or condensation drips, do it from *inside* the coop, from the underside of the roof.


Pat