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Timber for bird houses

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  • 08-01-2022 10:43am
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    irewestlad
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    What’s the best type of timber to use to make a bird house in Irish weather?



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    timfromtang
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058226624/timber-for-bird-houses

    Greetings west lad,

    I'd suggest that larch or oak would be ideal, in both cases you would want to use the heartwood only, as the sap wod is not rot resistant, easy to tell, the colour is different.

    Cypress would also work well, macrocarpa, lawson cypress, leylandi, any of those, all have good rot resistance in Irish conditions again heartwood only.

    tim

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    Fuinseog abú



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    irewestlad
    Registered Users Posts: 44 ✭irewestlad


    Thanks Tim!



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    dathi
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    20220110_123714.jpg

    i made a few out of silver birch last year had blue tits nest in them



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    magicbastarder
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    i'd say whatever timber you have to hand - i have hedgehog boxes made from old pallet wood several years ago, and rot was a problem on the underneath where they were sitting on damp ground, and there was no air circulation to dry them out. i'd say you should get a few years from pallet wood as bird boxes.



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