Terry Sprinkle
I purchased the Chicken Coup only by photos. The delivery was excellent and the setup guy was kind, helpful, and was responsible in putting coup where I wanted it and leveling it up. The quality of the craftsmanship and construction of the coup was poor. At delivery I noticed the egg access top was crooked and not lining up which left cracks in top area leaving the inside exposed. The delivery guy took his drill and took loose the hinges and re-aligned the top and corrected it. All the other problems with the coup, I had to fix myself after discovering them. The hardware cloth on the two front doors were over hanging the inside window trims creating very many little sharp pieces of metal that would have sliced my chickens wide open if they happened to fly into the windows. I had to take them off and re-cut for a proper fit and re-mount them on the inside, both of them. While I was doing that I noticed full length nails that were suppose to have been nailed into the window 2x2's holding the outside boards on were missed inside and the nails were fully exposed and could again slice my chickens wide open, there were 4 of those. I had to remove them by pulling on them and wiggling them and pulling the nails head and all inside the interior instead of pushing them out and damaging the outside paint. After finding these I ran my fingers on the inside edges of all the interior framing and found many exposed nail points that I had to take a hammer with a blunt end to bang the points at an angle to flatten those dangerous exposed sharp points, there were probably 20 of those I found all over the interior. On the inside of the Large access door one of the screws used to mount the hinges to the door was way too long for where it was mounted and again exposed the screw sharp point to the interior of the coup. I had to replace three of those with a proper size screws. One of the Vent doors hardware was improperly installed and was binding and hard to open and close, which again I had to remove and fix for proper operation. Many of the air nail gun U-nails were not flush with the wood and I had to hammer them down. The chicken egg boxes will not last from the materials used to construct them, which I know I will have to eventually fix and correct. The coup was obviously put together without care and a person that did not care about the quality of the product. The overall design I believe could be better. There is no venting of the inside of the coup with out opening the large front doors which are either fully open or fully closed. The inside of the doors are made with plywood, which will swell and rot if gotten wet and is not painted, but no other choice available to vent the interior, should have been made with the same exterior boards. There is no way to get light into the interior without opening the same doors. So, not really happy with purchase and should have paid a little more for the others I saw which had better designs. I guess you guys must have just made these without much thought and I happen be the one getting a poor design and have to tell you how it should be and your future buyers will get the benefit of a better product.
3 years ago
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