It’s time for mounting latches and locks on the door and hatches. I’m going for cheap, wooden ones as these will be sufficient for the chicken coop. On the main door in the side wall of the coop I’ve mounted a wooden latch at the top of the door because this is just irresistible to
I found a hole in the clouds and removed the tarpaulin to work on the chicken coop project, so now the window has been mounted with two screws: I thought the chicken hatch was ready for mounting but of course it wouldn’t fit in the hole in the gable 😉 Off with the plywood and
This chicken coop window is putting my woodworking skills to the test – angles, notches and glue etc. I’m using one of the plywood sheets as a guide to make sure the window frame is in a right angle. Hopefully the plywood sheet has been cut in a right angle 😉 The protective plastic is
I’m glad I have my tarpaulin with all this rain coming down these days. It’s on and off all the time so it has only been a limited amount of work I have put into my chicken coop project lately. But I’ve finally begun mounting the plywood walls – this is the window and the
It’s been raining here for several days so I haven’t been doing much on my chicken coop project lately, but I did manage to find some holes in the clouds for woodworking. Fortunately we have a nice carport allowing me to cut the plywood sheet walls into the correct shape: (Note: The smaller cuts in
The next task is to assemble the chicken coop frame, on which the walls and roof will be mounted. One of the challenges are to make sure that the studs are at right angles, and I’m using a previously cut piece of plywood for that purpose: Another challenge which I didn’t anticipate is that you’ll
Phew. My arm is tired from cutting all that wood, but now I have finally cut out all the plywood needed for the chicken coop: 90% of the studs are also cut into the correct length. Two long studs still needs to be cut in length; the ones you see in the middle of the
I’m starting to work my way through one of the chicken coop plans I did a review of some time ago. This particular plan is The Compact Chicken Chalet plan that comes with cutting diagrams for all the wood needed. I’m converting from inches to centimeters since this is what I’m familiar with: This is
