Re: Eglu pros and cons

Jill wrote:
a_l_p wrote:



Those cheap tin shed are awfully flimsy. BUT you can buy polystyrene
insulating sheets for, oh, $Very.Few and using the appropriate
extrudable adhesive blobbed on at frequent intervals stick it onto
the walls and, most important, the ceiling (condensation). After
that, whatever you can score in the way of cheap wall-covering that
will stick to the polystyrene - hardboard, fabric, even wallpaper I
suppose! Check your hardware store for what sticks to what. The
point is to get something to stop the polystyrene getting gouged or
pecked. Fabric, painted, makes a cleanable surface & is quite tough.


What a hell of a lot of pallavar - chickens do not need insulation. The timber quality is not improved by all of that so will still rot -- we have had a few!. Hardboard, wallpaper etc make a very poor surface for keeping birds in. It would also provide a great place for mites and bugs to accumulate not to mention be very attractive to mice.

No, I meant using a tin (zinc coated steel I think) garden/utility shed (sold here in various sizes, easily erected by the home handyman i.e. two people can be driven to fury over an entire weekend trying to find where this extra piece should go and what's this leftover panel for?) and varying quality. They are very cold, unlike a wooden building, but the worst thing is the condensation. I doubt if mites would live better in a lined metal shed than in the crevices in a wooden one. Oh, I wonder if those prefab sheds are an Antipodean thing - we don't get regular snow anywhere people actually LIVE (!) and they tend to have very low-pitched roofs.

A L P
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