Possible to re-floor a shed?

thriftwizard

I've just cleaned out my chicken shed, which is a converted 6' x 8' standard apex-roof shed, though the roof has been replaced with bitumen roofing panels to provide ventilation & stop red mite setting up home under the roofing felt. Because I was working flat out for a year, it hadn't been done for far too long; the mice have run riot & chewed clean through the floor in more than one place, all in one corner, under the nestboxes where the cat couldn't get at them. Plus the roof had sagged a little (mended now) & let in some damp - same corner!
Am I just going to have to bite the bullet & save up for another shed - or build my own, which might be preferable as I can design it for birds and for ease of cleaning & maintenance, BUT I'm no expert handywoman - or can I re-floor it somehow, preferably with something mice can't gnaw through? There was wire mesh down over the floor, which they haven't been able to bite through; they've just made tunnels through the MDF-stuff underneath it!

ed110220

Why not nail (or whatever the u-shaped nail type things are called) a sufficiently fine metal mesh to the bottom of the new flooring material? That way the mice would not be able to gnaw at it from underneath.

joinaman

Can you not staple down fine chicken wire to the existing floor and then lay new 18mm sheathing ply over to leave a sound floor that the mice cannot get through
Much cheaper than buying/building a new shed

Jaynne

No reason you can't refloor, there are a couple of good suggestions above. Depending on how the shed floor is constructed you could also take up the existing floor and lay new boards.

Ply would be a lot easier and most timber merchants will cut it size for you. Beware of your door dimensions - you probably won't be able to get one big piece in but it might have to be two or three.

thriftwizard

Brilliant, thank you all - mesh underneath ply it shall be!