Birdhouse with your hands: the drawings, the size, the best materials

Rather questionable chemicals can be used safely "clean" means. To effectively combat caterpillars, beetles and other pests is enough to attract to your parcel starlings. These and some other species of birds are capable of destroying not only insects, but the larva. The only thing that is required - quality, made with your own hands, birdhouse. Drawings and design dimensions, manufacturing techniques and tips you'll find in this article.

What do birdhouse: the best materials

To clarify the birdhouse dimensions drawing for starlings should be created taking into account the characteristics of habitat in the wild. We take note of the following facts:

• Usually, these birds build their nests, or use a hollow, hollowed woodpecker in a tree. They do not need excessive space, so it is enough to create a small inner space of the housing.
• For growing chicks need no drafts, good heat and sound insulation characteristics wall.
• We should not forget about the natural enemies. Should provide sufficient protection against cats.
• It is necessary to provide the convenience of penetration into the birdhouse and free departure.
• It is necessary to eliminate unpleasant odors, harmful to biological organisms evaporation.
• The design should be free from sharp projections, defects which may injure the bird.

This photo shows that the birds like unpretentious-looking structure. It is made of natural materials, without varnishes and paints. By its parameters shelter to get close to the natural conditions, therefore, the corresponding structures are called "nest boxes". Production is not accompanied by any difficulties. Suitably, the core block of wood is removed, excised for taphole opening. Top and bottom nailed boards.

Note! In these dwellings are created favorable conditions not only for birds but also for a variety of parasites. To remove them to be treated internal surface with a weak solution of potassium permanganate ( "permanganate"), or boiling water. To perform this procedure quickly, cover creates an easily removable version.

Birdhouse from a tree: in harmony with nature

This material is most often used, since its parameters are well suited for bird housing. However, be aware of the following limitations.

Such materials formaldehyde compound may contain other chemical compounds unsafe. When heated, they emit unpleasant odors, scaring birds.

Coniferous resin is isolated which in addition create unpleasant sharp odors sticky surface. Best wood hardwood, without the pre-soak.

In this photo - not just a drawing with dimensions. Here is a simple guide that will help with their own hands to create a functional design. The pictograph shows instrumentsThat will be needed to perform work operations.

Note! How to make a birdhouse with no errors, you can see after a careful study of alternative materials, different drawings, professional advice. The resulting information should be evaluated in a complex, complement the features of future operation and the conditions in a particular plot of land.

Skvorechnik of paperboard embodiment shelter

This light and easy to handle material can be used to build a house for the birds with their hands. The following statement will help you understand how to make the design quickly and cost-effectively:

Photo	Description of work operations
	Get ready for the implementation of the project. Prepare a pencil and ruler to mark, scissors, brushes, glue, tape. Decorative paints and a brush handy.
	Suitable sturdy corrugated cardboard, which is used to make durable commercial packaging.
	When the nest box defined dimensions, the drawing is transferred to the surface of the material. Preliminary experiments easier to produce the paper.
	To obtain a strong design, use a large piece of cardboard. Excised therefrom integral preform.
	When this is not possible - create individual elements. Dense grade cardboard convenient cutting knife reliable construction than conventional stationery scissors.
	Construction was collected, glued joints.
	Qualitative coloring will help to create an exclusive appearance and at the same time - to create a protective coating.

They develop fine motor finger, agility, accuracy. With their help, the child will be able to realize their own unique ideas.

Note! Lucky pattern with dimensions must be preserved. Further, it is used to create a series of identical products. We must not forget that the cardboard house is able to maintain its integrity during one season, no more.

But in this embodiment, the insulation characteristics of the walls will be worse than selecting corrugated material. For secure connections have to use high-quality adhesives or special fasteners.

Birdhouse made of paper for the summer season

To understand how to make their own hands the product from this material, you can use the scheme discussed in the previous section of this article. But the paper even after the impregnation is not able to provide the necessary strength to accommodate the design of the air. Wind gusts will deform the wall of the house, so it will be uncomfortable to birds.

Birdhouse out of the bottle: fast and easy

This material strong enough for the successful implementation of this project. Plastic retains its integrity for many years. He is not damaged by moisture, sufficiently strong mechanical impacts. But the bottle creates transparency for visual inspection of the filled liquid. In this housing the birds will disturb the light. Perfectly smooth wall will create difficulties in the process of moving adult starlings and chicks.

To address the shortcomings, use the following instructions on how to make a quality house for the birds of the defenders of their own garden with his own hands:

• Suitable large plastic containers (3 liters or more).
• The inner surface finish with a rough cloth. It creates comfortable conditions for movement, improves the insulating properties.
• To eliminate the use of transparency color outer surface. You can create multiple layers. But most importantly, that the latter coating was resistant to weathering. Suitable formulations based on acrylic.
• Notches cut in the plastic is not difficult to conventional office knife. Beneath it makes a small incision. It is inserted into a wooden (plastic) perch.

Birdhouse made of plywood: versatile material

In this construction four to "cube" attached underside of the lid. This solution provides a secure fit, not difficult to dismantle. The rear wall of the two hooks are screwed to fasten to the corresponding docking station.

How to make a birdhouse with your hands, not difficult to understand. Fit assembly technology such as wood constructions. But you must note the following features plywood:

• To obtain acceptable heat conductivity, It is necessary to use a sufficiently thick sheets (20 mm or more). Acceptable creation composing walls.
• For outdoor use suitable moisture-resistant varieties. These materials are more expensive than standard. However, products made of them keep in shape for a long service life.
• Make sure that plywood no harmful to birds, creating unpleasant odors adhesives and other chemical compounds.

Birdhouse out of the box: a turnkey solution

In this set there wooden blanks manufactured with factory methods. They are of high quality workmanship, precise dimensions. Paint and special decorative overlay useful for creating aesthetic appearance. Assembly instructions will guide you through the necessary steps correctly.

Important! In such kits, as a rule, do not include instruments. They have to be purchased separately.

This cardboard birdhouse collected in just a few minutes. Special cut-outs designed to create connections. The benefits should include low cost, quick assembly operations, the possibility of disassembly. To determine the shortcomings of this model close enough to explore the picture:

• No additional layer that protects from moisture.
• Too big entrance is for the birds.
• Low strength of connecting nodes.
• Excessively modest appearance.

Dimensions birdhouse: what you need to consider

Above we discussed in detail questions about how to make the design with the use of different materials. After a complex analysis is not difficult to conclude that the benefits of natural wood:

• an environmentally friendly, inexpensive material;
• it has high strength and good insulation characteristics;
• it is not too difficult to handle in the home with their own hands using the simplest of tools.

The last item on this list deserves special attention. prudent owners suburban areas make housing attractive to birds of certain species. It is therefore necessary to consider not only the physiological differences starlings and titmice, their particular habits, preferences.

Immediately it should be noted that the build according to GOST a miniature object will not work. standard reference parameters are not designed for the birdhouse.

Important! What should be the dimensions of the products discussed below. Also given and requirements for other parameters based on specific behavior of different birds. In any drawing, you can make individual changes. But it is better if they would refer only to the aesthetic parameters of the product.

Dimensions birdhouse for starlings

Typical design parameters are listed in the following table:

When feathered neighbors have mastered a new home, such structure removed. Thereafter, the birds begin to destroy harmful insects.

Sinichnik: drawing and dimensions

Dimensions birdhouse for tits a bit different from the previous version:

House for wagtails: drawing and dimensions

To the birds was comfortable, it is necessary to take into account the following parameters:

Drawings can be created independently on the basis of data provided in the table below. But we must remember that the foot wagtail better suited to run, than clinging to vertical surfaces. This bird is difficult to penetrate into the notches standard birdhouse. For her design complement "threshold", a special platform in width from 80 to 120 mm.

How to make a birdhouse in steps

After getting acquainted with the theory, you can continue to practice. This table provides an algorithm that will help to build bird houses for birds with his hands. Drawings, it is necessary to prepare the supplies, tools beforehand.

Photo	Driving actions and important notes
	For the manufacture of relatively simple house for the birds at home with their own hands will approach a drawing with dimensions of the birdhouse.
	According to the design documentation, the dimensions are transferred to boards.
	Wooden blanks are cut with handsawor tool with an electric drive.
	To the birds it easier to navigate the inner surface is roughened. If necessary - coated special notches in the tap hole area.
	Hole making with an electric drill. Apply tip cutter size.
	To simplify the assembly process, in marked points drill fine holes or make small depressions. They screwed screws. With such fasteners obtain reliable connections.
	The assembly is performed sequentially. Workpiece set so as not to create additional load on the structure in the process of bonding. For example, products from enough three screws per connection line. In the photo it is not specified, but some masters set in the inner corners of special inserts. With their help the rounded shape of the interior space, making it similar to a conventional hollow.
	In the central portion of the cover is fixed wooden box with dimensions slightly smaller than the free part of the inner contour of the walls. Fix its five screws.
	Check the ease of installation and removal of the cover. When the chisel is necessary to give optimum shape detail.
	If you create several birdhouses, garden will be better protected against harmful insects. To extend the service life, the product is impregnated with the outside specialized formulations.

With this video you can find out how to make functional and beautiful birdhouse yourself:

Important! When you create any type of house it is necessary to close up the gap. You can use hemp. The working operation is performed with the use of specialized tools, blades.

How to build a birdhouse with your hands: step by step guide

If you buy a ready-made set, birdhouse for birds with his hands can be done quickly and accurately. In such kits is precisely fitted preform consumables. Detailed instructions manufacturers explain how to make a birdhouse. But much more interesting - the original design.

If you wondering about how to make the most out of a birdhouse logsWatch this video:

Below are guidelines to help make "nest boxes" without errors.

Photo	Flow chart and notes
	Detailed drawings are not needed for this project. It is only necessary to comply with the above requirements for the size of houses for different species of birds. First you have to find the necessary raw materials. Well suited aspen. In this wood core often it becomes rotten while maintaining integrity of the outer layers.
	After delivery of the log home, it is sawn to size. Remove the rotten bark. One of the sections is performed at a slight angle. To this end the roof will be attached later. Tilting provide automatic removal of sediments. The workpiece is necessary to make a hole (the entire length). To accelerate the process is used with a long electric drill, a chisel.
	In the presence of the through-hole even solid wood will remove not too difficult.
	Furthermore excess sample material is carried out to the point is not yet formed with a uniform wall thickness of 20 to 30 mm. The inside is removed splinters, sharp burrs. Hole notches drilled using an electric drill fitted with a corresponding toothed crown diameter.
	To fit the bottom of the board (20-25 mm). It is cut so that the unwanted parts do not extend beyond the level of the contour of the bottom.
	Roof in fixed version as the bottom, fastened with screws. In order not to divide the timber creates pre drill small diameter holes. How to removable roof option, described above.

How to decorate a birdhouse his own hands

Often there are questions whether it is possible to paint these buildings? Application impregnations, decorative coatings protect the wood from moisture, harmful bark beetles. This treatment allows the use of one and the same design for many years without repair. But always need to make sure the paint does not contain repellent odors birds. On the other hand, they should not be overly bright, so as not to attract predators.

When properly implemented original ideas will make a functional object expressive design element. How to decorate a birdhouse, it's easier to figure out with the use of photos of specific examples.

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How to install a birdhouse: choose where and how

This problem should be studied separately. The correct solution depends not only on the attractiveness of the house to its potential residents. If you set exactly where to look birdhouse should be provided with favorable conditions for growing chicks. Certain activities will help improve protection against inclement weather and predators.

First you have to figure out how to properly install a birdhouse Orientation. Some experts recommend to turn the entrance is to the south. But this solution is not always correct. If the house will be located on the sunny side, it can not be ruled excessive overheating. It is necessary in this case to install it in the depths of the shady branches.

Should be deleted pouring inlet rain. For this purpose it is necessary to examine the "wind rose". The entrance is set opposite to a preferred direction of air flow in a particular location. If necessary, use a wall of the building, the crown of the tree, other artificial and natural shelters.

In which way to turn notches, to find out is not difficult. It is more difficult to establish the exact installation site. The height is selected from 2.5 to 3 m, 5 m, if there are no additional factors which cause avian anxiety. When installing the birdhouse near driveways, aisles, buildings and rest areas, it increased to 4.5-5.5 m. To keep distances between the individual houses for the birds at least 15 m.

To determine how to fix a birdhouse in a tree, it is necessary to clarify design features.

Lodge pole mount is fixed to the support using flexible cords. Preference is given to synthetic ropes, and other products made of strong durable materials, are not subject to the destructive influence corrosion.

Take appropriate measures to avoid the destruction of birds' nests and woodpeckers cats.

That the animal could not reach his paw to chicks increased overhang roof. In typical figures often result corresponding parameter from 4 cm to 5 cm. Increase it to 7-8 cm. Material consumption will increase slightly, but effective passive protection will be provided. A similar result can be obtained if we make the roof unsuitable for a comfortable stay. To increase this angle bevel drive in nails sharp ends up.

To move to housing difficulties starling tree (or other support) tin stud bands below and above. Applied metal strip 60-80 cm wide. The distance from the bottom of such protection is set to the house of 35-40 cm from the top - from 130 to 140 cm.

Instead of metal strips to the support can be attached to the branches. Their fixed rope. Apply a sufficiently large number of elements to create an impassable obstacle.

Perch in front of a tap-hole is removed, so that the cat could not rely on it. Little clever bird will be able to penetrate into the house without this device. Inside of the hole, creating a protrusion from the wooden corner. To woodpecker is not gouged a hole around the tap-hole mounted metal protection.

How to mount nesting boxes to the tree - it is clear. It remains to specify particular care. Birds do not like old nests, which infest harmful parasites. At the conclusion of the season it is recommended to clean, disinfect. To perform these procedures regular handy removable roof.

Note! If in compliance with all the rules of the birdhouse is empty, it must outweigh. It is possible that this simple action will make it attractive to birds.