Woods-style house in the winter

[aart]

Don't need any of that stuff. I'd rather have full control on when, and how much the monitor windows open. The link says the windows can be adjusted to open between 55-75F. My windows are usually opened at 40-45F. I don't want to have to disconnect something to open a window. Add to that the cost, and something else that can screw up, and/or fail. I guess a pulley would work. But then, you would have to tie off the rope somewhere out of the way. Too many moving parts, keep it simple I say. That's why I used the simple method I did, copied from the man who designed the coop.

Are there pics of your window 'straps' Jack?

I'm dating myself, but I remember when the schools and government buildings all used those curved metal type of openers. Although my memory includes a lot of uncomfortablly warm moments while we waited for the janitor to fumble around finding the pole he used to open them! They never seemed to open them until it was pushing 90 degrees in the stuffy classrooms!

I do like that method tho because it wouldn't interfere with my hardware cloth. I will definitely look at using those.

You can buy those, that's what I looked for for mine, but they're about $25-35 a pop.
I made a prototype of that type of latch out of plywood, and it worked so well I made 3 more....and a pole to operate them. Easy peasey.

 

[JackE]

Are there pics of your window 'straps' Jack?

Look at pg-4, of this thread. There is a pic of my monitor windows from inside the coop, showing the straps. All they are is 1X pieces of steel stock, I bought at Lowes.

 

[aart]

Quote: Thx....how to get up there to open them?

 

[JackE]

Quote:
I just reach up there and grab them. They are not all that high up. The highest point of the coop is 9'. The straps are less than 7' up.

 

[aart]

Quote: You must be tall.....I am not, and mine are 12 feet up.

 

[JackE]

You must be tall.....I am not, and mine are 12 feet up.

Not a basketball player, just under 6'. 12', have to keep a step ladder in the coop.

 

[aart]

Quote: Or use my 'pole' ;-) which is a stick of moulding with a bolt, washer and a couple nuts on the end.

 

[vtguania]

JackE when you started this thread you mentioned having only 11 chickens, how many do you have now? The last couple of yrs I have been wanting to build mine and always something comes up. It will hopefully be next yr, I have quite a bit of wood I have collected here & there for it. Hoping to get a good find on barn wood (free if possible lol). I will be making mine 12X12 and have the material list from the original author.

 

[Arielle]

My windows open in and i use 2 poles to open or close. One to hold the window up against the roof and another to turn the toggle.

 

[Arielle]

It is a free book on google you can download.

http://books.google.com/books/about/Open_air_Poultry_Houses_for_All_Climates.html?id=o08PAAAAYAAJ

definitly worth rereading.