chicken coop roof
17/01/10 15:32
When I built the chicken coop last
year, I couldn't get hold of decent corrugated plastic roofing and
I didn't have enough of a slope on the roof. The end result is a
leaky roof, damp chickens and some bodging. It looks rather sad,
compared to when it was built. See
below
This has to be fixed so I'm building a full roof with a solid, lapped roof. As this is quite a lot of wood, I need to strengthen the uprights in the center of the coop.
I've added 4 columns plus two cross bars in 2"x2". The cross bars effectively hold the sides of the coop in. They were already been pushed out by the weight of large puddles of rainwater that collect on the roof. The corners are ok as they are as the sides form L columns. It already helps hold up the saggy, puddled roof. All I need to do now is to build the A frames for the peaked roof. I've built one, just 4 more to go.
This has to be fixed so I'm building a full roof with a solid, lapped roof. As this is quite a lot of wood, I need to strengthen the uprights in the center of the coop.
I've added 4 columns plus two cross bars in 2"x2". The cross bars effectively hold the sides of the coop in. They were already been pushed out by the weight of large puddles of rainwater that collect on the roof. The corners are ok as they are as the sides form L columns. It already helps hold up the saggy, puddled roof. All I need to do now is to build the A frames for the peaked roof. I've built one, just 4 more to go.