The Best & Cheapest Chicken Coop Floor Ever!
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- Опубликовано: 30 апр 2016
- Instead of using toxic, smelly rubber mats or vinyl, we used 17" x 17" ceramic tiles! We just cut them to size and placed them in with no mortar or glue :)
It is the cheapest and healthiest way we have found. We only paid $17 for 10 tiles.
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Coming from 8 years in the future - I can't believe the difference in your voices, especially Ashley's/Eevee's! I'm pretty anti-toxic stuff too. My partner thinks it's crazy. He will agree, but then do something without any thought at all - because that's how his Granny did it. Well, that was a VERY long time ago! .... Enjoying these old videos!
This comment is for people who might want to follow your idea: if you have a Habitat For Humanity Restore near you, or a place that resells construction supplies new and salvaged, you can get nice new ceramic tiles for like 1/4 to 1/2 that price. The one near me always has tons of brand new tiles, loose Or in boxes. It’s always worth a look! Plus, the tiles don’t have to match. But often there are enough of the same tiles to do a small project like this!
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Very clever floor!
Great job ! I love the idea of tile!❤️
Wow, i thought of the same thing today thinking how to easily clean coop! Since I found a few tiles, i thought would that be so easy to wipe and clean?? Now I will definetly be putting that on bottom of coop.
Thanks for the video. I am planning to do the same with my coop.
Got naked concrete now but it’s hard te clean plus I don’t wanna have toxic plastics there either
Might want to put some kind of caulk between the tiles as not to let the chicken poop sink in and spoile the wood underneath. I also have a tile bottom and have pine shavings about 4" thick in my 3x8 coop.
You both can do anything you put your mind to.
So creative
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You can also use flexible plastic wall panels sheets of 4 x 8 feet. They are easy to cut to size and you can roll them and remove to wash if needed, then reinstall.
Wow, 17 bucks. And beautiful.
Hi, I wanted to ask you all how you installed your feeder? Love the coop floor
The metal part you see is called a Service Entrance Head Cap which is normally used upside down to pass electrical wires through. The black part is removed and it makes a nice feeder. We used 3" PVC pipe to hold the feed (cut to whatever length you want), a 3" to 1 1/2" PVC reducer, and an 1 1/2" PVC street (45 degree) elbow which connects the reducer to the metal part. We didn't use PVC cement, but you can. We used metal pipe straps to hook it to the side of the coop.
Service Entrance Head Cap:
www.menards.com/main/electrical/conduit-conduit-fittings-raceways/metal-conduit-fittings/sigma-1-1-2-clamp-on-type-service-entrance-head-cap/p-1444430909507-c-9538.htm?tid=5116361507614227987&ipos=9
Thank you!!! I was about to go with the vinyl but glad I found this.
What was that red stuff on the time when you wee cutting it? And would a skil saw cut through the ceramic?
It was a wet saw and the red stuff was water mixed with the ceramic particles. A skil saw would cut through ceramic provided that you had a diamond blade. Some stores will cut tiles for you if you know your measurements.
Thank you. Just ordered a diamond blade. Yay!
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is the dust from cuting the tile in dry cutter
I also use a ceramic tile inside my rabbit cages to give them a flat place to rest their feet.
I'm a newcomer to chickens and I like this idea. I only have 5 birds and am only starting to come to terms with the mess they make. Can you use concrete?
You can use concrete, just make sure the bedding is thick.
How do you prevent the tiles from moving? I like to stand inside my coop to scrub it out with a deck broom. Won’t they shift when I’m scrubbing?
We cut ours so they all fit in without giving them room to move around. You could use some kind of construction glue to help fasten them in place if you wanted. If your subfloor is uneven the tiles may crack if you're walking on them though.
Did you use any grout?
Great idea guys!
Thanks! It has been working perfectly ever since we put it in. :)
We did the same
I'm building a chicken bunker, so I'm tilling because my chicken bunker is block and steel reinforced concrete, ill be using porcelain tile that looks like wood lol
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How has this held up?
Isn't that floor going to be extremely cold in the winter? No matter what you put down for bedding they're going to be scratching it around and moving it.
No different than any other type of floor. With bedding, it's all the same. Most of the time the chickens are either on their perches at night, or outside during the day.
How did it work out over time?
We didn't have that coop long since we had to move, but it did great the whole time we used it. No issues.
Why?
What about all the waste that collects in the cracks...bad idea
Ours stayed clean, cracks gets filled with the pine bedding, and later on we did sand. Stayed dry and good for us :) We keep a clean coop also and not let it get nasty. :)
@@diyfferent good idea, tile is durable and easy to clean just worried me about the cracks. Good luck with your 🐔
rubber mats is easy to clean not tiles.
The tiles never even got dirty at all. They just stay clean under all the bedding, for us at least. We never let our coop get nasty.
Those bird are gonna fill those gaps with chicken shit if ya don't grout those tiles.
There's VOC free vinyl out there, cut it big so it runs up the walls a few inches and use a few roofing nails to hold in place.
We didn't have that problem. We used either pine shavings or sand bedding and it was fine the whole time.
You should have staggered the tile. 😉