Sunday, March 11, 2018

More coop progress - roof studs gone and floor work

Today we finished pulling apart the roof of the coop.  In this case, we removed the studs supporting the roof top and worked on the floor.  Disassembling the roof took some doing because whoever built it initially used two kinds of nails and two kinds of wood screws to hold the roof studs together.

I also was presented with a surprise -- as I removed one of the long studs, I heard this fast vibrating sound.  I couldn't figure where it was coming from until I realized it was the board that was doing the vibrating.  I realized there must be bees inside the board and threw it as far as I could from where we were working and headed for the hornet killer spray.  Sure enough, I returned just in time to see two HUGE wood boring wasps (or hornets?) emerge from inside the 2x4.  Each one was about 1.5" long and I wanted no part of them.  Thankfully, they won't bother us any more.


In addition to the fun and games with the roof studs, we also removed the laminate sheeting the previous owner had applied to the floor.  In the process, we discovered that the pressboard floor is rotten in parts.  We will be applying an anti-fungal solution to the floor to kill off any mold that may be in there then overlaying that pressboard with pressure treated 1x4's to create a new floor.  That is for another day, however.

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