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The last part of roof construction involves applying the actual roof
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sheeting, and in this case I chose some clear corrugated material by a company called SunTuff. I'm sure there are other options. This isn't
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the only stuff to use, but it is very impressive. You know, we've had these
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chicken houses here at our place for a number of years now, and there's been
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absolutely no deterioration. I had a little offcut that I experimented with a
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couple of inches wide and several feet long, and there was nothing I could do to
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break that thing. I could practically tie it in knots and and it wouldn't crack. So
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it's held up very well. It works quite well. The only thing that's not shown
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here on the plans are some corrugated support strips. So these would be plastic
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strips made by the SunTuff people to go with this product, and it's a strip
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that follows the profile shape and supports the roofing material when it
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goes down. So the strips would fasten here. There's a kind of
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strip that follows this direction of the roofing, and then there's another
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style of strip that goes across like this. The bottom line is that wherever
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there's wood to support things, there needs to be a support strip of one sort
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or another. And then there are some washer headed roofing screws that go
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down through. I pre-drilled for that, and it secures it very well. It lets the sun in
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when you want it in the wintertime, but doesn't cause any excess heat in the
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summertime because you can hinge the lid open. And if you wanted, you could put
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some sort of shade cloth over it as well if you live in a very sunny and warm
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place. So that's the way this stuff works. Other corrugated options would work too
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but if you want to have a nice warm interior in the wintertime, you're
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going to want to go with a clear product. SunTuff, I got the clearest product they
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could offer. Pretty far up north we have some serious winters here, but they have
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different grades of it as well. You can get more or less tinting depending on
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where you live. But just to recap with the lid here, we have the frame. This is
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the front cap, the side cap. There would be another side cap here too, but nothing on
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the back because as I said, this lid needs to hinge open, and if there was an
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overhanging strip at the back, it would stop that from happening. So the hinges
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fasten to the body of the house, as well as the back edge, the back uncapped edge
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of the the roof right back here
