cheap solar tube for chicken coop
Just slightly improved an existing idea that uses plastic soda bottles as a skylight. Easy project for a shed or coop.
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Our family, mainly my dear husband, made our family a chicken coop out of 100% free pallets and a few other materials. Watch as he cuts apart Free Pallets an…
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No algae: he said be put bleach in the water.
quite genius ! ^___^ keep up the good work friend !
overtime will the water “evaporate” from the sun and collapse?
Or you could have just cut up the bottle to make a window out of the plastic. But that would have made sense.
you need to change the bottle every week light go to water it create algae
Please DO NOT use use auto anti-freeze in these – if it should bust, the mixture would be toxic to pets and wildlife, which also find it very appealing. Use rubbing alcohol, drinking alcohol, mineral oil or salt to prevent freezing.
Try replacing the bottle assemble with a diffuser (a rough translucent cover, basically a sheet of plastic over the hole), it would give you even more light, and you won’t have an issue with freezing bottles
Water bottles only appear to provide more light because the bottles looks “bight”, but they are just diffusing the light coming through the hole, and actually reduce the light a bit.
Nice idea
to bad it want keep light threw the night time
use salt in the water
they need to put these in port-a-pot houses.
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incase its cold
well in winter time you can just unscrew the top, and squeeze out some water, to give room for expansion.
Is salt clear? the whole idea is to keep the liquid crystal clear after all…
Just use a tightly wrapped piece of aluminium foil to avoid UV deterioration of the cap. Add a drop of superglue and it will stay on in a hurricane!
you can put antifreeze in the water like the one we use in the cars,so the bottles don.t freeze.
Well, it’a a good idea… if you cannot afford a 6 $ window, then go with the free bottle. I guess it is why it is a good idea mostly for the “third world”. I must also add that it is not very good looking in a backyard. But… compared to a window the bottle may bring more light into the coop because it is deep inside and not flat like a window.
Great idea
If you’re worried about it freezing, you can add cheap vodka or windshield washer antifreeze.
why not put some alcohol in the bottle?
Use 35m film tube to cover the caps. 100% uv resistant.
will the bottle ever “run out”? like is it the bleach or chlorine that causes so much light or is it there just for reliability reasons? and is it the water that does the job?
it last about 10 years
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No algae: he said be put bleach in the water.
quite genius ! ^___^ keep up the good work friend !
overtime will the water “evaporate” from the sun and collapse?
Or you could have just cut up the bottle to make a window out of the plastic. But that would have made sense.
you need to change the bottle every week light go to water it create algae
Please DO NOT use use auto anti-freeze in these – if it should bust, the mixture would be toxic to pets and wildlife, which also find it very appealing. Use rubbing alcohol, drinking alcohol, mineral oil or salt to prevent freezing.
Try replacing the bottle assemble with a diffuser (a rough translucent cover, basically a sheet of plastic over the hole), it would give you even more light, and you won’t have an issue with freezing bottles
Water bottles only appear to provide more light because the bottles looks “bight”, but they are just diffusing the light coming through the hole, and actually reduce the light a bit.
Nice idea
to bad it want keep light threw the night time
use salt in the water
they need to put these in port-a-pot houses.
Comment improv…you are SOOO much more welcome here than those nasty trolls that generally hold humanity back everywhere they go!! Moar, please! (Only you, though…you have writing ninjas skilz, lol!)
incase its cold
well in winter time you can just unscrew the top, and squeeze out some water, to give room for expansion.
Is salt clear? the whole idea is to keep the liquid crystal clear after all…
Just use a tightly wrapped piece of aluminium foil to avoid UV deterioration of the cap. Add a drop of superglue and it will stay on in a hurricane!
you can put antifreeze in the water like the one we use in the cars,so the bottles don.t freeze.
Well, it’a a good idea… if you cannot afford a 6 $ window, then go with the free bottle. I guess it is why it is a good idea mostly for the “third world”. I must also add that it is not very good looking in a backyard. But… compared to a window the bottle may bring more light into the coop because it is deep inside and not flat like a window.
Great idea
If you’re worried about it freezing, you can add cheap vodka or windshield washer antifreeze.
why not put some alcohol in the bottle?
Use 35m film tube to cover the caps. 100% uv resistant.
will the bottle ever “run out”? like is it the bleach or chlorine that causes so much light or is it there just for reliability reasons? and is it the water that does the job?
it last about 10 years