Friends. This innovative birdhouse will last 100 years. Today I will show you how to make a birdhouse from modern materials that are superior to traditional ones in all respects.
A homemade birdhouse is cool in summer and warm in winter. It is lighter than wood, does not allow moisture to pass through and has a 50-year guarantee. No less important is that it can easily be processed artistically.
Watch the video to the end and learn the nuances, secrets and mistakes that are why starlings do not settle in some wooden birdhouses.
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To make a birdhouse with your own hands, I took a sheet of extruded polystyrene foam three centimeters thick. Transferred dimensions. And cut it with nichrome thread. The thread was connected to a 24 V step-down transformer, and the transformer was connected to a Chinese dimmer to regulate the voltage on the nichrome thread.
If there is no nichrome thread, you can cut it with a grinder, jigsaw, knife or hacksaw.
Do starlings not want to live in birdhouses made of pine, spruce, cedar, larch and thuja? The reason is the resin that comes out of the wood and stains their wings. Expanded polystyrene does not emit or absorb anything.
The entrance for starlings should be 45-50mm in diameter.
The distance from the floor to the center of the hole should be 190-200 millimeters.
If the entrance is 20-50 mm higher, the chicks will not get out when they grow up. If you do it lower, the cat or magpie will be able to reach the chicks. The hole was burned with a nail. A perch with a diameter of 10 mm will protrude 4 centimeters. From the inside, up to the edge of the entrance, there will be a ladder with a notch. Do you know why it is needed? When the time comes, the chicks, clinging to the notch with their claws, will be able to get out. In birdhouses made of smoothly planed boards where there are no notches, chicks often die. I screwed a stand to the opposite wall, which I made from a broken cutting. From the inside, I made an insert for the rack from plywood so that the extruded polystyrene foam at the rack would support any load.
I put foam on all four walls with glue and temporarily tightened them with self-tapping screws. Instead of adhesive foam, you can use regular mounting foam, silicone sealant or liquid nails. This is the easiest birdhouse to make, and it is almost ready.
I want to make a beautiful design for a birdhouse with my own hands.
I will make the walls in the shape of logs, and on the roof there will be an imitation of wooden shingles. The logs can be cut with a wallpaper knife, then lightly melted with a soldering iron.
But there is an alternative way.
How to make an innovative birdhouse that will last 100 years with beautiful walls and roof?
I made the simplest template - a conductor that can be connected through the same dimmer with a transformer. P The homemade conductor did not disappoint.
After half an hour, the walls of the hut were ready. To make the cracks in the logs more realistic, I made them with a soldering iron tip. Took a little longer to fix the roof.
After trying several methods, I came to the conclusion that it is best to make a roof using a hairdryer.
The house needs to be painted to protect it from ultraviolet radiation. But not all colors are suitable. Oil, pentaphthalic and nitro enamels, as well as all kinds of varnishes, resins and automotive aerosols dissolve polystyrene foam.
It is better to make the roof removable.
It would be good to do a general cleaning and add fresh hay every three years.
I placed a dummy chimney on the roof.
After that I applied one layer of water-based paint. Then I applied three coats of rubber paint. It performs several functions at once. Protects from moisture, ultraviolet radiation and reinforces the surface, making the coating elastic. Rubber paint can be applied with a brush, roller, or even a paint sprayer.
After drying, I spray painted the roof bright blue. I made the entrance white. The finishing touch was painting the pipe.
In the end, this is what happened. Such birdhouses will delight the eye in squares, alleys and public park areas
Which direction should the birdhouse face? You need to navigate by the wind rose as shown in the video. The entrance goes to the place where the wind least often blows during the nesting period. The wind rose will help with this.
Now you know how to make an innovative birdhouse with your own hands that will last 100 years