This is provided by grid matting on the front and inside the house. Bats also need something to cling on to, and to climb into the house. The houses are constructed of sturdy thick cedar plywood to help prevent rotting. This item is designed by "bat people" who have worked with the critters for many years and understand their modes of existence. read about bats and their importance from numerous sites on the web, and decided to purchase a bat house manufactured by a bat organization that contributes funds to help preserve bats. And when one considers that one bat at night can eat multiple thousands of mosquitoes, mosquitoes that transmit diseases, I felt I had to do something. I read about the subject and found that the numbers are dangerously low. Now, I have but one bat that shows up to the gable vent at my house. Over the last 30 years the numbers have dropped dramatically. I used to have many bats flying in the area. I would like them to stop roosting on my chimney and pooping on my deck!!! NEW HOME BATS! We have lots of bats here, so hopefully it will not be too long. I will try to remember to update this when bats appear. I mounted the bat house high on my mounting plate so the final height is 18' above grade.Īll in all I'm happy with it with my own modifications, but I think it is a bit too pricey for what you get. FYI - I did all this on the ground, then stood my post up into a 3-ft deep post-hole and concreted it into place. Then I screwed through the back of my new mounting plate into the back of the bat house with deck screws the correct lengths (1.25" and 3" depending on location). I fixed that easily.īecause my original installation plan wasn't going to work, I cut a separate piece of plywood 13.5" x 13.5" and screwed that to my post. Some of the screws on mine were not flushly installed (they were left proud by someone in a hurry, or a non-woodworker-type). That's good, but the screws are also pointless then. I had planned to remove the front panels and screw through the middle into my post, but upon removing the screws found that it was actually glued together. Since this is intended to be mounted on a post, I'm confused as to why they pre-drilled holes in the top corners, which are useless. Here in the northwest it's got to be weather-proof to hold up, so I treated it with cedar-tinted wolmanizer endcut treatment, as well as the top, edges, and front of the cedar parts. Maybe I missed it somewhere, but I see no mention of if this piece of plywood is weather-proof plywood, or just plain-jane exterior grade plywood. I'm not sure about the quality, but the design is sound. I got this and recently installed it on a 20 ft pressure-treated 4圆 post, so no bats yet - and not expected yet.
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