How do I keep the noise down on a tin roof when it rains?
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Laura
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K need to reduce the noise on my ton roof of my chicken coop and run so they aren't scared to go inside when it rains. I also need to know how to install flashing and a rain butter that will drain into a gravity fed water container.
Hi Laura, I think the easiest way to reduce the sound would be styrofoam sheets on the ceiling of your coop as insulation. They should help with summer heat as well. Foam would work too, or fiberglass insulation with a sheeting material like Masonite or thin plywood would also do the job.
Basically anything that provides a barrier between the tin and your chickens.
I hope that helps with the noise part of your question.
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Try aluminum mobile home roof coating.
You could possibly add soil and flowers over the tin to absorb water and noise. Chickens may want to fly up to the roof and eat plants.
For a chicken coupe, you might go over the top of the roofing with Exterior Grade Plywood called C/D-X. 5/8” maybe. Coat all sides & edges with 2 full coats “spar” marine polyurethane. Screw to ceiling joists through metal with coated exterior grade deck screws. Pre-drill the holes.
Have the plywood sheets overhang the low slope by 4-6” and then you can hang your gutter & downspout off the plywood. Downspout goes into the rain barrel.
Look at the gutter clips at the store & get help from a clerk.
Add foam board insulation to the underside of the roof. It comes in 4'x8' pieces with the foam sandwiched between paper and foil sides. The foam will reduce rain noise, but the airspace between the foam and the roof will further reduce the decibel level.
You were too quick to dismiss Kim's advice. Explain to me how your chickens are going to get at the foam. They are not going to hover like hummingbirds. I doubt your roosts are set so close to the ceiling that the chickens can simply turn their heads. Even if they are, how hard is it to move a roost?