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    Helpful hints for building coops

    I love so much about this. I'm going to move my Premier 1 fence to run around my garden like you have. Today! I've been weeding that fence line! Uggh! As if I don't have enough to do! We also have solar Premier1 fences but we've learned that we need to plug them in to an outlet in the winter...
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    Helpful hints for building coops

    We built a little gate house/feed room as a secure entrance to our flight pen. We added a skylight with an acrylic roof panel. Love it! We'll be adding a skylight to every chicken shack and shed we build from now on. What a difference that makes!
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    Helpful hints for building coops

    I almost can't remember the last time I washed a brush. I keep them in the fridge and freeze. Polyurethane, stain, and oil and latex paints. But don't try to save polycrylic brushes. In fact, that's the only brush I do wash.
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    Helpful hints for building coops

    And make sure the bottom of the door overlaps the door frame. Set in doors don't work when they are full of crusty hay. And overlap it far enough that predators can't make themselves a usable gap. I really like your coop. It's got a nice clean modern cool style.
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    Helpful hints for building coops

    Soap works too, bar or liquid. And definitely pre-drill.
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    Helpful hints for building coops

    Keep it in the freezer for long term storage. Leave it in the sun for 5 minutes and you're good to go. It works with oil based paint, stain, and polyurethane as well. I've kept an assortment in my freezer for years. Front door, back door, bathroom door (kids are hard on doors).
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    Helpful hints for building coops

    You can do the same with a paint roller. Keep it on the roller cage, put the whole thing in a supermarket plastic bag, smooth the bag snug around the wet nap, wrap the excess around the handle of the roller cage. Secure with a rubber band. Double bag if necessary as those supermarket bags often...
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