Poop and filth in every nook and cranny. This is so hard to clean. At the time, it seemed like such a good idea to use the R-panel tin for the walls. And, yes, it has served us well since 2009. But, ugh, it is almost impossible to clean.
The tile floor that I originally laid (using the saltillo tile that we took out of the house) has held up well in the middle, but all around the edges, the smaller pieces of tile have been dislodged by gophers or moles digging tunnels underneath and the chickens scratching around for bugs and such.
I don't know if that's a rat nest of a bird nest, but I know that I don't want it there. And spiders...eek, the spider webs are everywhere.
Snakes have such easy access that this one felt at home enough to take it's coat off and stay a while. There are lots of crevices where they can hide and even if we can find them, sometimes we can't reach them to get them out.
Tom was usually the one to clean the coop, but it's such an onerous task that it wasn't done nearly enough. Even so, he was reluctant to go along with my plan to remodel the coop. I finally talked him into it and went to buy supplies. My plan was to put in a proper floor that we could cover with linoleum and put in proper walls to seal off all the hidey holes.
Floor joists, first.
This was a hard project. Not only did we have a sloping roof that we had to cut the plywood to fit at the proper angel, we had these corner poles that we had to fit the floor around. It was a challenge.
But, with Tom's mad trigonometry skills, we managed to get through it with few errors.
Although, the circles were the worst.
Almost fits.
This one we cut far too big. Tom filled in the gap with the pieces we cut off.
The fourth time's a charm.
We finished the floor on the first day.
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