Starplate walls
The easiest way to fill in
the walls of a starplate
chicken coop is using plywood...but only if you don't have to haul
the wood to a remote location. 1"x8" boards are much easier to
haul, and are not hard to cut to size on location.
No wood will be wasted. The bitter ends will match back up to
form the comparable portion of the next triangle over.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Shucks.
I was looking forward to Wattle and Daub
No luck with the clay?
It should still look pretty cool.
Are the boards tounge and groove? If not you may want to put a thin strip vertically through each triangle to help keep the long boards from warping. I love the less waste aspect. Looks great!
Michael --- Unfortunately, all of our "clay" areas that I tested turned out to be silt.
Eric --- They're not tongue in groove, and you've got an excellent point on the warping. We were already going to have to run a piece of wood up the middle of half the triangles to mesh the end pieces together, but it sounds like we should do so in the solid triangles too. Thanks for thinking of that!