We decided to build our new
chicken coop with the Star Plate connector system.
There’s been a few things
we’ve learned so far and maybe this collection of blog posts on
constructing a Star Plate chicken coop will help you avoid the mistakes
we made.
Star Plate chicken coop design
Star Plate construction day 1
Star Plate chicken coop day 2
Star Plate inner wall boards
Star Plate door frame
Star Plate half wall covering
Star Plate walls
Star Plate half wall
Star Plate chicken coop door
Star Plate roofing material
Star Plate roofing plywood
More Star Plate roofing
I know these posts don’t get a lot of comments but I do appreciate you posting updates. I have wanted to build one of these for ages but never did. Watching yours grow was the kick I needed and I am 90% done on mine (just need the door finished) 🙂
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I do have to say I think you guys made the correct choice with doing the flat panel for the door. I kept to the pattern and have been struggling on what to do with the door due to the “odd” angles. Opening out doesn’t work and I don’t like it swinging in either :/
Thanks so much for sharing! Your picture didn’t quite go in right, so I’ve included it below:
We’ll be posting another sumup of our roofing adventures soon, probably next week, so stay tuned. Mark was very impressed with your roof, as a side note, and was wondering how long it took you to shingle it?
The roof took too long (a few days) but I would not place the blame on the shingles. Rather as this was my first time building something this scale and my first time doing a roof it involved extra trips to the store (mainly due to underestimating the number of shingles… twice) and I was far from fast at it.