Started to build my flex today

[BocaJan]

It's comingn along great!

 

[summoner12]

WOW check this thing out! Very nice!

 

[Mark7616]

Well here is this weekends update its now constructed and tomorrow I will varnish it. Today the base was finished and the door was built. Next week it will just be a case of meshing the enclosure, fixing the base to the main enclosure and I will be covering the plates in the base with plastic so the water does not cause them to rot over time. Well here is some pics of how its coming along:

This is the complete unit now:

View of the base with door fitted:

Here is how the water will collect. It will drip from the main enclosure onto the mesh which will collect all the detrius and droppings and the water will fall through and down the plates and into the tray underneath which I can take out and empty like so:

 

[sageghost]

This looks Amazing. Very Very nice work. Are you going with a "natural" varnish? In that first image, did you build those enclosures as well?

 

[Mark7616]

No I didnt build them I got a company to do them. I will be using a staina nd varnish in one so it will be a beech colour.

 

[NewOwner]

Very nice work!!!

 

[Chamfan123]

Don't forget to cover that hole in the floor with some mesh so nothing like chams or feeders fall in there. Looks Great! Thats one luky cham!
Do you know what type you are getting yet?

 

[Chamfan123]

Sozz missread you beat me to it

 

[Mark7616]

Lol is going to be meshed and I have an ambilobe panther.

 

[ciafardo 4]

Go ahead and pat yourself on that back son you got some skills thats for sure looks great now can you mass produce them great cage thou nice work!!!!

 

[Zilla]

I was think about building one, but this supasses anything I could do. I gave up on the idea and just bought a screen/metal cage from craigslist... I couldnt pass it up, 75 bucks for a 24x24x48.

 

[Mark7616]

I managed to get it all varnished today was meant to be beech but looks more like antique pine beech is the colour of my vivs next to it. Never mind im still happy with the colour. All that remains now is to silicone the joins and add the mesh I will do this at the weekend:

 

[BigR]

That puts all the hard work I did on my new cage to shame. Excellent work. Love how you set up the drainage. How many coats of varnish did you use?

 

[Mark7616]

I used 2 coats.