Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Poultry and Pets => The Hen House => Topic started by: Redgoat on April 12, 2023, 21:22
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It’s time I repaired the roof on the nest box before getting some new hens. Any advice on choice of wood appreciated.
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This is a photo of the current roof, 3yo providing scale !
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It has been a long time since I had a wooden coop, but I am sure when we did build one years ago we used waterproof plywood.
It is expensive but lasted years as a roof. We also had onduline roofing sheet on top of it, rather than roofing felt, but you would need to check on a nest box that you could still open it properly before installing that.
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The 'posh' name for the plywood Newshoot recommends is WBP and comes in a variety of thicknesses,starting at 4mm up to 25mm. Roofing felt is expensive and is only sold by the roll, usually 5m and 10m lengths.