newby...some questions...

mickwood · « **Reply #15 on:** June 24, 2008, 08:06 »

What do you cover your run with? I didn't think of doing that!! Do you think it's worth putting a roof on it seeing as I'm building it myself?

Also, if anyone else out there have made their own, would it be sufficient to nail the frame together or is screwing it required?...think that's a another thread?

Mick

poultrygeist · « **Reply #16 on:** June 24, 2008, 08:57 »

Hi again Mick.

I screwed mine together using 2x2 uprights and 2x1 cross members at the top and halfway up. Stapled/nailed weldmesh to said cross members and folded over a skirt at the bottom with slabs around the edge.
Got plastic corrugated roof over one part, polythene stretched over another and the rest op, with a plan to cover it one day !

Depends how good you are at joinery I suppose. If you can do halving joints and make it strudy, nailing should be fine but I'm not much cop so relied on screws to hold it together.

Rob

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