Ziggy Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 (edited) We got our cube this week, and am just about to start putting it together... pics to follow once it's all ready and set!!!! Edited February 17, 2008 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goosey Lucy Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 Ooh! How exciting! What colour is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules. Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 Yay! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susanbb Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 Well done you. What colour is it please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 Can't wait. Erm....What colour is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 She's too busy trying to work out the instructions to get on the forum! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 She must be! Maybe she has dashed out to get an electric screwdriver. An essential piece of kit for putting a cube together I believe! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy Posted February 16, 2008 Author Share Posted February 16, 2008 Hi all .... sorry to keep you all waiting.... The cube is green.... though strangely enough I spent the whole of last night dreaming it was blue!!! We started putting it together last night but couldn't finish cause we need to do the rest in the garden (we had hoped it'd fit through our double garden door but it's just that little bit too wide), so will finish today... DH made me laugh, I was all set to start, with my daughter all ready to help (they're her chickens, living in eglu at the moment and moving on to the cube), when he came to stand there with his power tool box. I said 'what are you doing?' and he pointed to the instructions and said 'look, it says you need 2 hours, a phillips screwdriver, and a friend with a cordless screwdriver.... that's me!!!' We'll be out there finishing the job as soon as the sun has melted all the frost on the lawn... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 Pics at every stage of construction required! It's a lovely day...perfect for the job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy Posted February 16, 2008 Author Share Posted February 16, 2008 It's all done... well it's built anyway, we just have to re-shape our permanent woodchip area a bit now, as it was shaped around the eglu... we'll do that tomorrow, and then let the chooks move in!!! Uploading pictures in photobucket now... will be back shortly to post them on here... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 Can't wait! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy Posted February 16, 2008 Author Share Posted February 16, 2008 Okie - here we go... there are a lot of pictures, not sure if it will all fit in... First of all, here is the unpacking, with my DD2 in background reading the instructions... Now the work has started, and here are DD2, DD3 and DD4, inspecting the early works... Moving into the garden this morning, and putting the ladder on Building the run.... that was an awful lot of little green clips to put on!!!! Pompom... either thinking he's a chicken, or hoping for this to be for him!! Getting there... putting the sides up... Now that's one big chicken!!!! (DD3) The chickens waiting to move in.... under the careful supervision of Splodge... And finally, here it is in all it's glory... it was not too bad to build at all... the run is a bit fidly, but mostly because of the number of clips, rather than because it's difficult... DH is checking the last bits of the instructions (which just say 'fit accessories', and tomorrow we'll adapt our wood chip area and move Mac and Nugget in!!!! I love the look of the cube, the chooks can't free range often cause we get foxes all the time, so it will be so lovely for them to have all this extra space!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 FAB pics! I absolutely LOVE your conservatory, the nicest conservatory I've ever seen!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 It looks great. Super pics. What a lovely spacious garden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Great pictures . What a fab garden (and house) you have . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 ditto, what a lovely conservatory AND garden. Gorgeous pusscats, too! The mention of those little green clips has decided me ... I am going to order two more Omlet chickens with mine, just so I don't have to put the darn thing together! Those clips are the bane of my life. It looks great Ziggy, well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 The mention of those little green clips has decided me ... I am going to order two more Omlet chickens with mine, just so I don't have to put the darn thing together! Those clips are the bane of my life. And mine! Not that I am a footballers wife type or anywhere close...but I have broken more fingernails wrestling with those blighters than enough. I now replace them with cable ties. I'm pondering on the extra couple of chickens myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy Posted February 17, 2008 Author Share Posted February 17, 2008 Thanks everyone.... the conservatory and garden was what really seduced us into buying the house!!! Our previous garden was really tiny, there's no way we could have kept chickens in there!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellekatz Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 I want a cube!! I want a cube!! I have booked my 3 new girls for the 2nd weekend in March and am phoning Omlet first thing tomorrow morning for my Blue cube. We will haveto put it together but at least we wont have the run to put on - how long did it take Ziggy without adding the run? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy Posted February 17, 2008 Author Share Posted February 17, 2008 It's pretty quick if you don't have the run to worry about, I'm sure you could do it in roughly half an hour (once you've spent a first half hour taking all the bits out of the boxes and reading the instructions, that is ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellekatz Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Thanks Ziggy - shouldn't be too bad at all, and as we have a covered run, if the back does leak ( cos we did it ourselves) it shouldn't be a problem. Yippee - more chucks on the way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 (edited) I wonder of Omlet would put the cube together, sans extra chickens, for a small extra cost? Might put the idea to them. Edited February 17, 2008 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellekatz Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Nice Idea! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 I'll give them a ring! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janty Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 The actual cube doesn't take that long to put together. We dismantled one at the end of January, packed it into our carand then rreassembled it at ours. Wasn't that bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...