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The roof is done, the solar power system is installed and the door opener is in place. My watering system is assembled, but the clean out plug is leaking. The pop door is a piece of luan plywood riding on tracks made from track shelving. Tomorrow I plan to have the run screened in, build...

I decided to bring in some help to get the finishing work done. My kids helped me get the siding up, lay some inexpensive vinyl flooring, cut roosting bar brackets out of pvc trim. I incorporated two small planks from the flat pack chicken coop we originally bought to house our flock...

Now for the update: I had hoped to get all the sheathing up and move the girls into the henhouse last night, but the weather and my tool batteries did not cooperate. The framing is done and now I am in the process of putting the siding up today.

I’m going to try and defuse this. I was simply suggesting that some of your questions would be answered and your feedback would be more helpful by looking at my design before providing feedback. As for Carolina Coops, I’m not copying their design, but I am borrowing some features. I agree...

Packing it in a little early tonight, due to thunderstorms. I had hoped to have the hand button up by tonight, but it’s not gonna happen. I did manage to build and attach the nesting boxes, put a second coat of paint on the floor, and the final piece of roofing over the hen house. I also went...

I think you should check out the detailed architectural renders and building plans I posted in the first page of the thread.

I worked well past sunset today, trying to get the henhouse ready to house the birds for a few days of being locked in staring tomorrow night. (Fingers crossed) The roofing is coming along nicely (I used 95 self tapping neoprene backed screws so far… I think I need at least 200 more. Plus 14...

That’s just passive ventilation for the winter, to allow humidity to escape, akin to soffit vents. I am reluctant to go with just hardware cloth between the rafters because of the risk of hard rain getting in. Should I drill out more of the rafter blocks? There are also large airflow windows...

Hen house framing is done. Three panels of siding are primed as is most of the hen house floor. And I’ve got the Dutch door mostly built. Tomorrow, I start putting the rafters up.

Lots of progress over the past few days — the run is now framed in, the hen house has an interior ladder, I’ve filled in the footing trenches, and I’ve slapped some barn paint on the framing. Today, I plan to pull the southeast post to true, touch up the paint where I missed with the roller and...

Today started with some tweaks to the pop door opening, then my son and I built the 'Carolina coop' wall (aka the French windoors and drop down cleanout door) and the rear wall, framed for a window and a second drop down cleanout door. We found out just how twisted one of the 4x4 posts that my...

Despite 90° temps, 85% humidity and constant rumbles of thunder, my 15 year old and I were able to get the joists painted, the decking installed ( doubled-up 3/8” plywood — long story), and the interior wall framed, with the pop door opening (with a PVC threshold plate). Of course it’s going to...

The monsoons abated long enough for me to lay down a sill plate of pressure treated 2x4s, lap joints at the corners and tapcon anchored into the concrete cap blocks at various points. On top of that, today, I used Simpson post bases (shockingly expensive for a bent piece of metal) to mount...

Mini update today (more rain) Cap blocks are in place. Right now, the blocks and caps are dry stacked. I’m debating whether to use mortar to set the caps, use construction adhesive, or just leave them as is. I will be attaching a pressure treated sill plate using tapcon screws. The dilemma...