On Sun, 2 Jan 2011 16:17:47 -0400, Leon Fisk wrote:

I think you have a lot more competition in making/selling bat houses
than you think...

Yes, lots of competition. 34 more of the best ones are listed here,
http://www.batcon.org/index.php/get-...-model-db.html

Where I hope to be included in a month or two All but a hand full are all
wood construction and all of them including the few plastic houses are hand
crafted with corresponding high labor costs. I'm building a mold to
(potentially) truly mass produce bat houses. It may never run again after the
initial prototype run, or I could end up being the *competition*.

In either case I'm having fun actually making something new rather than fixing
the endless stream of broken stuff I see every day.

This outfit did some studying different designs (I took a class taught
by one of the owners many years ago) early on and ended up using a mesh
affixed over the wood. See:

http://www.batroost.com/bathousesand...ouseplans.aspx

http://www.batroost.com/meshtobuildabathouse.aspx

I would explore finding a local source for this stuff or similar if I
was going to try making very many of them...

The mesh is great but costs as much as the plywood it is attached to. Pretty
sure I can groove for about the same labor as stapling mesh. But who knows...
--
William