Do eglu cubes leak?

Just been Reading reviews and slot of people say they leak!!!! Has  Anyone with a cube experienced this there is a video on you tube and it looks like there are big gaps and it shows water coming in!!!!! If it leaks when I get mine it's going straight back to omlet one of the selling points is it's warm in the winter. is it to much to assume that that means my chickens won't need to learn to swim the first time it rains !!! I was really looking forward to it being delivered now I'm thinking I might have made an expensive mistake

I'm sorry, I don't have one, but I have read the same thing.

To be honest,our beautiful wooden coop arrived yesterday from flute so fancy, and we are getting our three Silkies this afternoon.  It's pretty heavy to move and does look a lot more complicated to clean than the eglu.

I am now a little nervous as to whether I've made the right decision as we toyed between eglu and wooden for ages.  I read too many negatives in the end which put me off eglu, but that is not to say that ALL their products have those problems.  Most people love them.

The main worry for me is redmite, but hopefully for-warned is for-armed!  I'm all set with my diatom!  I think I'm just experiencing pre chicken jitters.  Like when you decide to get pregnant, go through pregnancy, excitedly buy baby bits, choose names..... and then all of a sudden you go into labour and suddenly start thinking 'hang on, I'm sure about this!!!'

Fingers crossed your cube is wonderful and you'll love it.

I wonder what the returns policy is on eglu's should it turn out to be a pile of poo

Then hurrah for diatom!

I like the idea of the plastic cube very much, but I just felt that with wood there are things you can apply to it, whereas some of the horror stories I've heard about eglus is the tiny tiny bubble holes harbouring mites, and that seems hard to deal with. Although in theory diatom should work anywhere if used for long enough.

Plus of course there is the element of beauty, and the wood won that battle!

I hope you don't get one that leaks, if you do surely that's classed as faulty? I'd drench it under the hose before you use it!

I read that story about the air bubbles and saw the pics I have a cunning plan I asume the bubbles are made from very thin plastic which should shrink and close up with very little heat so....... I'm gonna very quickly run a blow torch over it to melt all the bubbles if this does turn out to be an issue . It's the rain leaking in that concerns me and this talk of big gaps. oh well we will see I shall give a full and detailed review when it arives which is Monday and like victoria  said it will be getting the hose treatment and any leaks and they can take it back.

Good luck! Blow torch idea sounds like a plan - you obviously know more about plastic than me!

Just a quick question, unrelated. Do I need to put newspaper in the bottom of the coop, before bedding? I'm using bliss (bit like hemcore etc)

Chooks arrive this afternoon.

I bet it'll be fine and you'll love your cube