Chicken boarders

[Donna C]

Hi all, I'm still on my hunt for a 6x6x6 wir. Am getting lots of quotes and have just been given a good one except they don't construct it for you, just deliver and we'll have to put some sort of waterproof roof on it I'm all for saving money but having a lovely oh who isn't so good at diy, makes me wonder how cost effective this would be??Any ideas guys

[Aunty e]

I'd use clear corrugated plastic from Wickes, shouldn't cost too much at all, and it's easy as pie to do. I did my shed roof in about ten minutes and I was seven months pregnant at the time.

[Donna C]

Blimey, that sound good, i think even we could manage that. How did you attach it to wood and how much( mine will be about 6x6x6)

[Aunty e]

You can buy it in various lengths and widths, and you need to be able to overlap the sheets so that the joints don't leak or need sealing. I assume your WIR would come with roof panels on it, so you just buy a pack of their screws with caps, and screw straight into the wood through the sheets. Then you pop the caps over the top, and hey presto, all waterproof.

 

I think you'd need four of these

 

http://www.wickes.co.uk/Clear-PVCu-Corrugated-Sheet/invt/240150

 

and a pack of these

 

http://www.wickes.co.uk/Corrugated-PVC-Screws-and-Washer-Set/invt/164036

 

You could buy longer lengths in order to leave an overhang, it depends what sort of position it's going to be, and how fanatical you want to be about making the run as weathertight as possible.

 

http://www.wickes.co.uk/Roofing/PVC-Roofing/icat/rspvcroofing

[Omletina Kyckling]

My friend put a corrogated roof on my run, using similar products from B&Q, it didn't take him very long to do it. He put a length of wood at the front of the run so the roof has a slight slope to it

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I didn't put ours on (DIY numpty ) but if you look at my signature link you'll see closeups of the roof and how the different height batons work to make a slope towards the guttering . There's another baton under the roof now, to take the weight of snow!

[Plum]

You have to oversize the holes you drill in the corrugated pvc and tighten the screws so that the washers just turn so that in very hot sun or icy conditions it allows for expansion and shrinkage and the pvc doesn't crack. You put the screws in through the 'mountains'.

 

Guess if all yours took 10mins to put up you didn't do that and we are just gullible and spent hours drilling the holes

Well it hasn't leaked even though we put it on upside down

[Aunty e]

Well no, I didn't do that, but then I was putting a roof on a pent shed (so only popped some batons across for support as the slope was already there) and just screwed straight through. That being said, I live in the outskirts of London, and the shed in question is in shade, so hot sun/icy conditions are not going to happen to it. If extreme weather is a feature of your garden, I think that advice sounds very sensible (and wouldn't take much longer TBH).

 

We actually have an onduline roof on our WIR, but it's very dark in there as a result, and it leaks like a sieve in heavy rain (mostly because the slope on it isn't properly fixed and it bows in the middle). Idly contemplating partly replacing the roof with the corrugated plastic come the summer so they have shade and light (and we're thinking of extending the run a bit as well ).