Building communities?

[urbpan]

I have a question about construction that I wanted to throw out there:

Can corrugated plastic roofing be attached to a metal-pipe framed cage?

Does anyone reading this know who the right person/community to ask would be? (I suppose a contractor, or a hardware store would be a place to start...)

Comments

[anais2.livejournal.com]

I don't know why you couldn't attach it with U-bolts, as long as you had a meld plate or oversized nut on the plastic side, to make a metal sandwich that would disperse force and prevent cracking under wind pressure.

If the plastic was the only resistance, I don't think it would hold up for long.
They also make a wood ripple-board to fill in the corrugation and support the shape. We used it on our home aviary in CA.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I won't be attaching it myself (we are hiring as yet undetermined contractors).

Thanks for the practical advice!

[rumorofrain.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this is what I was going to say, too. We used those sort of panels on our chicken coop, and they were a pain in the ass but resulted in a snazzy finished product. They do need a ton of support, though - they're very flimsy and will bow in the middle (and edges, and anywhere they're not supported).

Make sure the construction folks are careful with the plastic roofing panels - they're pretty fragile and prone to cracking/ripping, so I'd recommend checking in with them to make sure they're putting in some kind of reinforcement (the "metal sandwich" anais2 mentioned).

Of course, I did use the cheapety-cheap grade of panels, so YMMV.

[gwodder.livejournal.com]

I don't see why not.

What's going in the cage?
Is this for indoor or outdoor use?
What size of metal-pipe are we talking?
How watertight do you need it?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

There will be several cages with several different kinds of birds, mostly birds of prey. These are all for outdoor use. Not sure what size of pipe--I think 1 3/8 inch or so (?) diameter. Not very watertight. We want the roofing to be partial: covering the back half of the cage and the entryway, so that there is some rain and snow protection.

*curious*

[nysidra.livejournal.com]

Could I get a backstory on the icon?

Presto!

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

http://urbpan.livejournal.com/190021.html
http://urbpan.livejournal.com/219313.html

Re: Presto!

[nysidra.livejournal.com]

Ah... wow.

I can sympathize. Even as a former pet rat owner. *chuckles* I would hide my rats treats in containers, even an egg carton once for just such "enrichment."

Predators gotta eat too. ^_^

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

If you use corrugated plastic roofing on the bird cages they will be fucking DEAFENING on days like today.

[bunrab.livejournal.com]

Gardeners do that to make sheds all the time. My late mother-in-law had a pipe-framed shed with a green corrugated plastic roof on it, lasted for years...