OMG prices just keep going UPPPPPPP!

[chfriedmam]

OP here. I pulled the trigger, did one last redrawing of my plans, and bought my supplies today. I work 3 nights a week so won't really get to work i this till next week, but now at least I know what I'll be doing and when.

 

[Poshlissa]

Oh man, I feel ya!!! We started our coop around September and the prices just keep skyrocketing. Every time we buy more lumber, the cost of the coop goes up and up. I told my hubby we should have just bought EVERYTHING we needed back then, but he seems to love going to Lowes and/or Home Depot on the regular. We are STILL building and hope to be done by March. God only knows what the run is going to cost. We went with something that matches our house as we are putting it in our backyard, but quite frankly our eggs are going to be worth $100 each for a while.

 

[chfriedmam]

Oh man, I feel ya!!! We started our coop around September and the prices just keep skyrocketing. Every time we buy more lumber, the cost of the coop goes up and up. I told my hubby we should have just bought EVERYTHING we needed back then, but he seems to love going to Lowes and/or Home Depot on the regular. We are STILL building and hope to be done by March. God only knows what the run is going to cost. We went with something that matches our house as we are putting it in our backyard, but quite frankly our eggs are going to be worth $100 each for a while. View attachment 2988608View attachment 2988609

Oh that's beautiful! We're going much simpler, but also with the smart side.i see you dont have trim at the building corners. Is that "ok" as far as water damage to leave that open? I hate the way the trim looks, but i always see trim

 

[Poshlissa]

Putting a wood deck under metal roofing increases costs, creates a more substantial thermal break (and thus, more condensation), then hides it from view until the damage is more substantial. It **IS** an appropriate method (plus insulation) when you are trying to keep dry, conditioned air inside the building envelope, such as with a home. Our chickens, generally speaking, don't get such consideration.

I would not recommend except in certain very unique environments. Better exposed metal, with a significant overhang beyond the footprint of the walls, so that any condensation which does form will, in the main, roll down and outside the structure, along the inner edge of the fascia (or metal drip edge, which is what I use. when I don't need to hang gutters (and sometimes, even then, by hanging the gutters off the rafter ends - which is admittedly poor practice, but functional).

Good airflow should ensure that the top of the roof surface and the bottom are similar temps, and that any water damage is readily visible.

We live in the High Desert of California. Very hot summers, and cold brisk 20-30 degree winters. Not much rain or snow tho we can get it. We put a metal roof on our coop and hubby is thinking of insulating the underside to help eliminate some of the driving heat in summer. Good idea, bad idea? We are new to chickening, and I have researched things TO DEATH, but I don't know much about roofs. Ours has a vented cupola at the top peak, as well as ventilation all along the top of two walls (north and south walls), and lots of windows that can be opened or closed as needed.

 

[Poshlissa]

Oh that's beautiful! We're going much simpler, but also with the smart side.i see you dont have trim at the building corners. Is that "ok" as far as water damage to leave that open? I hate the way the trim looks, but i always see trim

Trim is yet to come. Thats another trip to the store. arg. lol!

 

[LizzzyJo]

We had planned on having a barn built in May of 2020... guess who is still barnless? I feel ya.

 

[MotherofOrpies]

Oh man, I feel ya!!! We started our coop around September and the prices just keep skyrocketing. Every time we buy more lumber, the cost of the coop goes up and up. I told my hubby we should have just bought EVERYTHING we needed back then, but he seems to love going to Lowes and/or Home Depot on the regular. We are STILL building and hope to be done by March. God only knows what the run is going to cost. We went with something that matches our house as we are putting it in our backyard, but quite frankly our eggs are going to be worth $100 each for a while. View attachment 2988608View attachment 2988609

So beautiful, definitely worth it !

 

[Auntiejessi3]

Keep us updated with pics! Happy coop building!

 

[Poshlissa]

So beautiful, definitely worth it !

Thank you! I love how it's turning out and can't wait to see it completed with all the trim and latches and door...which also has a window in in...etc. I am suuuuuuper claustrophobic so when I designed it I knew it had to be a walk in, with lots and lots of windows. Plus it had to be bright inside and easy to clean with poop boards and the like. I was up many nights at 2 am with chicken designs in my head. Haha! The biggest issue was designing it to fit where I wanted to put it in our back yard. We live on 2.5 acres, but I wanted it where I wanted it, and that caused some design hair pulling. It's costing WAY more than we planned tho so if we ever move, it's being disassembled and taken with us. Period.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

We live in the High Desert of California. Very hot summers, and cold brisk 20-30 degree winters. Not much rain or snow tho we can get it. We put a metal roof on our coop and hubby is thinking of insulating the underside to help eliminate some of the driving heat in summer. Good idea, bad idea? We are new to chickening, and I have researched things TO DEATH, but I don't know much about roofs. Ours has a vented cupola at the top peak, as well as ventilation all along the top of two walls (north and south walls), and lots of windows that can be opened or closed as needed.

I would expect that your chickens will stay outside the coop during the day (unless there are no other shade sources, or (if your coop is tall enough) stay close to the floor of the coop. Metal roofing, assuming its the galvanized stuff, reflects a lot of solar radiation back up. Yes, it radiates on the inside, but not significantly worse than a wooden roof (speaking as someone who laid insulation in an attic in FL in July (roof was shingles, paper, 2" XPS or EPS (the blue stuff), 3/4" ply. and plenty of heat radiating off the underside. That's been my experience, anyways.

I'm high humid environment, so all I can do is provide shade, and soil they can dig into to cool off - if you are hotter and drier, a combination of shade and misters may work for oyu to help your birds with the heat. Plus electrolytes and cool drinking water, of course.