Is your dog's unusual barking a secret code for something mysterious?

[good_egg]

Ok, so I finally got fed up with not being able to get hold of Cotswold to tell us the height of their run (need exact dimensions for planning permission) and as OH and I could only agree on the look of that one we thought we'd try another tack. Got recommended a couple of shed manufacturers by our pal who is a gardener so went to ask them if they could make similar. Getting quotes tomorrow so fingers crossed. The only thing is they both recommended roofing felt for the roof instead of the coroline that Cotswold use. Does anyone have this? Is it ok? The knowledgeable guy said it would be as the girls would be sleeping in cube so the red mite wouldn't live under the felt as no chicks nearby - what do people think?

[Egluntyne]

Roofing felt provides redmite with ideal living conditions, so I would definitely not use it. There are several threads with more info about this on the forum.

[mimi5]

I would definitely go with the coroline!!!! You're paying after all!!!!! Felt will always harbour red mite and having had them in my wooden coop, trust me you don't want to go there!!!! The coroline will be durable and give shade!!!!

[good_egg]

Thankyou! Just been to look at coroline - doesn't look like I expected at all. Think it will look ok. How do you fix it, does it just go on frame, in which case do you need mesh underneath? Or does it have board underneath it? Won't be me doing but want to make sure is done right and fox proof!!

[Redwing]

Coroline or Onduline needs a good support, ideally solid boards or faling that a ladder style battening arrangement with the rungs ideally no further than a foot apart

[good_egg]

Thanks Redwing! So could presumably go on whatever the felt was going on? Will get OH to talk to the man tomorrow.

[Redwing]

Yes thats right.

 

Personally I have nothing against felt run roofs, they are normally far enough removed from the coop not to suffer with mites but Onduline/Coroline is definitely better

[sjp]

if you use Coroline (the solid stuff) then the supports need to be a maximum of 900mm centers on an apex roof on a pent roof a maximum of 600mm on a pitch of not less than 10 degrees and a length of 2.4 metres. any longer than that then I'd go with a center of 450 mm the supports run across the sheets

If use the clear plastic sheets them you want 450mm centers and the sheets need to be fixed on every other ridge of the corrigation not the valley personally I use screws to fix them this time of year the sheets are to cold to use the nails

these centers are for snow loadings your'll find the data sheets recommend a bigger center from experiance I've found that to be a little bit to far apart I also prefere to use 3 x 2 for a small pent roof no more that 4 sheets wide and 4 x 2 about 8 sheets again a pent roof the 2 inch face is were the sheets are fixed the longer face is for support and strenght less chance of the roof saging.apex roofs 2 x 2 is fine I much prefere apex roofs a lot more work but they are a stronger roof

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[good_egg]

Thanks sjp. Not sure I understood all of that but luckily I know a man who might!

[sjp]

Thanks sjp. Not sure I understood all of that but luckily I know a man who might!

 

your welcome it's not to easy to write down so that people that haven't got a building trade back ground can understand as I try to answer questrians that I think would be asked if it were a face to face talk plus my spelling in not good