Pro - Does anyone else's nest boxes get soaked in rain?

[malcolm]

UPDATE; Please to be able to report, that after phoning Omlet and ask whats happening. Driver is bringing new parts and rebuilding the cube tomorroe( Tuesday). I hope this will solve my cubes leaking.

[malcolm]

Tuesday UPDATE. Omlet came this morning and replaced the back panel to the cube. The new panel was wider than the old one. Amuch better fit as the new pics show. Await rain now to test.

 

Edited September 14, 2011 by Guest

[abwsco]

Wow Malcolm. That's one heck of a difference! Fingers crossed it works.

[chicken bark]

Odd that the panels are not all the same size???

 

Glad Omlet have been able to sort it for you.

[Sam]

That looks a much better fit

Hope you get yours sorted too Henergy

[malcolm]

I thought of Henergy when mine was being repaired. Has been in severel heavy showers and seems ok. Will pass verdict after a night of rain but very hopeful

[Miss Millies Chicken]

Glad you got it sorted Malcolm Fit of the back panel looks similar to mine now.

[fluffy chick]

10cm no wonder the old one leaked!

[Henergy]

I'm still leaking - but can't seem to find a definate 'entrance' point. Next week when youngest is in school I will be having a go at levelling the ground it sits on & try that. I did think it was coming in the front at the pop hole but I've pulled the perspex cover so high up now, that it can't be that. I am so glad you've got yours sorted.

 

(ps 10cm is a huge variance - quite unbelievable really.)

[malcolm]

Translate to just over a inch. To hell with metric we are British!!

[chuckmum6]

Did Omlet explain why there was such a huge difference in size?

 

Makes me think they are aware of a problem, but 10 cm that is not accidental, surely they have had to make different moulds?????? Very strange! My cube leaks less since I have stretched nylon rope around it and pulled tight on a bunge, I think my panels must be out.

[chuckmum6]

Translate to just over a inch. To hell with metric we are British!!

 

10cm is almost 4 inches, which do you mean, 1 inch (2.5cm) or 10 cm (3.9 inches)? I work in metric myself!

[malcolm]

Teh old panel measured 117 cm the new one 118.5cm

[chuckmum6]

Oh right, that is only 1.5cm (just over half an inch) difference, that's not much really and within the normal range I'd think. So no big conspiracy going on then!

[malcolm]

Enough to stop a leak.

[chuckmum6]

Good!

[squiffs]

so it wasn't 10cm or an inch? it was 1.5cm?

[malcolm]

Iam not making any more listings on the backpanel gap. I have a problem with metric as you can see. The gap on the old panel was over a english inch and caused the leak ( look at before and after photos)

Omlet have sorteds the problem so Iam happy. Hope other leakers now get sorted.

[Redwing]

That looks much improved Malcolm, I am glad the problem got sorted out

 

Thanks for taking the trouble to post the pics, its good for people to have something to refer to, hopefully this will help others in the future

[Henergy]

Iam not making any more listings on the backpanel gap. I have a problem with metric as you can see. The gap on the old panel was over a english inch and caused the leak ( look at before and after photos)

Omlet have sorteds the problem so Iam happy. Hope other leakers now get sorted.

 

I'm so glad you got there in the end - no matter really what the measurement was, its working now which is the only important thing. Well done

[Henergy]

Well now Malcolm is sorted, I have been putting my mind to my leaky cube issue.

 

I decided that the only route now was to dismantle completely, move it, dig out & level the ground & reassemble !!!!

 

And so I chose today (hottest day for ages )

 

Well it took ages, the skirt had grown into the grass, I had to remove all the woodchip etc etc. Digging out was a nightmare with 4 nosey chickens who wanted to just eat all the worms. It was boiling hot.

 

But I have done it - I am not sure if its worked re: the water issue, but it certainly looks much straighter. I was going to hose & test, but the ground was so churned up with my wellies that I decided against making it a mud bath too !!!!

 

I am shattered but I am so hoping its done the trick. I will report back .............

[malcolm]

mine is anything but level but since omlet fitted the new back panel alls been ok.

[Chucky Mama]

I hope it work after all your hard work. Mine is moved weekly and is never level or anywhere near level.