My Bird House - second week

Just visited my bird house this morning. The workers have completed the entrance hole. The metal roof is open with the wall all done up. The pond below the open roof is also completed with waterproofing.

Black paint is painted on all the walls in the roving area to prevent reflection of sun light into the nesting area.

Meranti planks with cement boards above the planks are about 80% completed. The workmanship is very good because there are no gap between the planks and the ceiling boards. There are also very minimum gap between the planks joints. Insects like to hide in the gaps and eat the bird nests or suck the baby swiftlets blood.

Wiring for tweeters is partially completed. There will be four channels for the whole nesting areas. Each channel will connect to about 25 tweeters. The wiring that is used must be of good quality because the plastic cover on the cheap wiring may crack after a few years. The wiring must be connected in parallel so that when one tweeter is broken it will not affect other tweeters.

My contractor estimated that the work can be completed in another week time.

My Bird House - after 1 week

Just visited my new bird house this afternoon. The brickwalls are completed and plastering work is in progress. Work is progressing as schedule. Meranti planks have not arrived yet.

In order to maintain the front fascia of the building, the front windows which was stolen were replaced with fixed glass painted black inside. There is a layer of brickwall behind the fixed glass for security. The roller shutter is shut with the brickwall behind. Since my bird house uses an open roof entrance, it is very difficult to know that the building is a bird house if you don’t look carefully.

I advise all bird house owners to spend a little more money to make their bird house look nice in order to blend with the surrounding buildings. Don’t forget that you own the bird house for a long term.

My contractor told me that many people came to look at my bird house. These people are mostly bird house owners in the neighbourhood. Trying to learn some design secret I guess.

Learning to design a bird house is very difficult because you can not learn it from the book. If you want to build a bird house you have to steal the design from some existing bird house owner or the best way is to engage a consultant to design it for you. There is also a third method, which is to attend bird house design course. I know that Nest Tech is organizing a bird house design course on 20/12 to 21/12. The fee is very expensive.