Part IV of How.......

At this point I am still only talking virtual fuzzy bottoms. (That's what we in the inner chicken circle call baby chicks.) The first batch was due to arrive via the post office in two weeks. Now was the time to finish the coop. I have to digress here a bit and explain about the coop.
Steve and I have been married for a long time. He accommodates and supports my follies (not how I think of them, but how everyone else does) with his manual labor not just lip service. So to minimize the time he would have to invest in this project I looked around for the easiest and least expensive structure to make into a coop.
We have a small shed below the house that was the original coop. We modified it for a hot tub when the chickens were no more. When the hot tub was no more we turned it into a garden shed. That would work, but it would be difficult to get to in the winter and have no cleared place for a chicken exit.
We have a barn/garage with two vehicle bays and a side shed. The bays are deep enough to house a car and 8 or 10 feet of storage. That storage space already had two walls and a roof. We only had to add two walls, a door, a ceiling, roosts, and nesting boxes, and the garage opened to the driveway that is clear all winter. I proffered my plan to Steve.
Turns out he had come to nearly the same conclusion the difference being that he thought the shed adjacent to the bays would be better. It has a window, concrete floor, electricity and a water hydrant. I had thought of that but had not dared to suggest it. Phew! That went pretty good.
At this point two weeks before the chicks' eta we had cleared and cleaned the space, and Steve had rough framed the walls and ceiling using mostly salvaged materials. I primed and painted 7 sheets of 1/4 inch luan that we also had on hand. (Being in construction and having a barn=lots of junk hanging around.)