How to make a booth for a dog?

Building a house for your pet begins with the choice of material and construction techniques. The booth can be warm and suitable for habitation in the winter, and can be just a summer home, while the family moves to the dacha. It is these two options, how to make a booth for the dog himself, and we will consider below.

How to make a simple booth for a dog?

When the construction does not involve a substantial warm construction or is not necessary in it, one can always use improvised means. Therefore, we will consider the simplest lesson, how to make a box for a dog from ordinary wooden boxes.

1. The simplest boxes for vegetables and fruits you will find on vegetable stores or similar warehouses. They will cost you times cheaper boards, and even completely free. We dismantle the boxes and take out all the remnants of the nails.
2. Further we measure all necessary dimensions of the booth. After that, lay out the boards and draw a sketch of the ends of the booth.
3. According to the sketch, cut off the excess and get two blanks.
4. Next, we need to make the supporting part to fix the end parts in one piece. It will be cant. We put the part behind all the parts of the wall and nail them to the beam. The last part is applied, and we mark the cut line at an angle. We remove the board, cut off the end of the bar under the line. Then we return the board to its place and nail it.
5. Likewise, we will proceed with the second part. But beforehand we will draw an entrance for the dog.
6. It is important to remember that it is right to make a box for a dog with a rounded top, as the animal will not get hurt, and it will be used often.
7. Next, we fix the two parts of the booth. For this, to the upper beam, which serves as the supporting part of the wall, we nail two boards on top, thus forming a roof.
8. Now the frame is assembled and it remains for us to simply trim it with boards in the side parts and with the bottom. The principle of forming the floor and side parts is no different from the formation of the end parts.
9. In the end, we form the roof to protect the pet from the rain.

How to make a warmed dog booth?

Now we will look at how to properly make a dog booth for year-round use. Here it is much more serious to consider the issue of insulation of flooring and side walls.

1. First of the bricks lining the base under the house of the dog.
2. Then cover the base with a ruberoid.
3. This time we will use a wooden pallet for the floor, putting it upside down.
4. From the top on the pallet we install the frame of the booth and fix the structure.
5. For the insulation of the floor, use the mineral wool or other insulator you have.
6. On top lay the flooring.
7. Similarly fix and attach the side walls and the back. The parts of the plating are joined together by metal strips.
8. We build a skeleton for a partition and formation of a berth.
9. We begin to sew up the internal partition.
10. The next stage of the lesson, how to make a booth for a dog, is to insulate the structure. To do this, lay a layer of mineral wool between the frame beams of the partition.
11. Sew up the partition and hide the heater.
12. Lay the layer of the inner ceiling .
13. Then we heat it.
14. Now it is necessary to make a warming booth for the dog, since it is used all year round. To do this, we place the insulation between the beams of the frame and sew it.
15. At the end we sew the ceiling.
16. After the roof is protected, it should be isolated with a roofing felt and lay the slate sheet on top. As a result, we have a warm and isolated rest room, and something like a veranda in the shade.