I've got one corner of the house where about every other year starlings
manage to wriggle under the tiles and nest in there, so far they haven't
made an appearance this year, so it being a nice day I decided I'd fit
some of those eaves filler, bird combs, bird guards, whatever.

http://www.toolstation.com/shop/p/p19205

Managed to slide up sufficient of the second row tiles that I could
remove the bottom row ones I needed to (except the edge tile which was
nailed) nailed a length of the comb onto the bottom tile batten,
pointing upwards and outwards as shown here ...

http://www.monier.in/fileadmin/_migrated/pics/Eave_filler_comb_with_tiles.jpg

I managed to piggle and slide the tiles back into their interlocking
positions, but the fingers apply quite a lot of upward force to the
bottom edge of the tiles in the places where there wasn't a gap to start
with, the bottom edge is raised maybe 1cm, which doesn't feel good in
terms of discouraging wind from getting in and lifting them!

I'm considering cutting off the fingers apart from in the places they're
actually needed, to reduce the force, anyone else needed to do this, or
any form of tile-clip that might be handy?

I fitted some and had no problem. I wonder if the warmer weather will help
them to settle?

DerbyBorn wrote:

I fitted some and had no problem. I wonder if the warmer weather will help
them to settle?

I wasn't convinced they would settle, so I took a stanley knife to the
sections where the fingers were in the way, they're fine now.

Probably an unlucky combination of how far forward the bottom batten is
and where the interlocking ridge under the bottom tile locates, just
leaves another 11m to do another day. I haven't noticed birds
attempting to get in at other places, but they might if they come back
and find their favourite entrance is blocked ...

Andy Burns wrote in
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DerbyBorn wrote:

I fitted some and had no problem. I wonder if the warmer weather will
help them to settle?

I wasn't convinced they would settle, so I took a stanley knife to the
sections where the fingers were in the way, they're fine now.

Probably an unlucky combination of how far forward the bottom batten
is and where the interlocking ridge under the bottom tile locates,
just leaves another 11m to do another day. I haven't noticed birds
attempting to get in at other places, but they might if they come back
and find their favourite entrance is blocked ...



My problem was bees.

On 03/04/2017 14:22, Andy Burns wrote:
I've got one corner of the house where about every other year starlings
manage to wriggle under the tiles and nest in there, so far they haven't
made an appearance this year, so it being a nice day I decided I'd fit
some of those eaves filler, bird combs, bird guards, whatever.

http://www.toolstation.com/shop/p/p19205

Managed to slide up sufficient of the second row tiles that I could
remove the bottom row ones I needed to (except the edge tile which was
nailed) nailed a length of the comb onto the bottom tile batten,
pointing upwards and outwards as shown here ...

http://www.monier.in/fileadmin/_migrated/pics/Eave_filler_comb_with_tiles.jpg


I managed to piggle and slide the tiles back into their interlocking
positions, but the fingers apply quite a lot of upward force to the
bottom edge of the tiles in the places where there wasn't a gap to start
with, the bottom edge is raised maybe 1cm, which doesn't feel good in
terms of discouraging wind from getting in and lifting them!

I'm considering cutting off the fingers apart from in the places they're
actually needed, to reduce the force, anyone else needed to do this, or
any form of tile-clip that might be handy?


And what wrong with an air gun:-)?

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Andy Burns Wrote in message:
I've got one corner of the house where about every other year starlings
manage to wriggle under the tiles and nest in there, so far they haven't
made an appearance this year, so it being a nice day I decided I'd fit
some of those eaves filler, bird combs, bird guards, whatever.

http://www.toolstation.com/shop/p/p19205

Managed to slide up sufficient of the second row tiles that I could
remove the bottom row ones I needed to (except the edge tile which was
nailed) nailed a length of the comb onto the bottom tile batten,
pointing upwards and outwards as shown here ...

http://www.monier.in/fileadmin/_migrated/pics/Eave_filler_comb_with_tiles.jpg

I managed to piggle and slide the tiles back into their interlocking
positions, but the fingers apply quite a lot of upward force to the
bottom edge of the tiles in the places where there wasn't a gap to start
with, the bottom edge is raised maybe 1cm, which doesn't feel good in
terms of discouraging wind from getting in and lifting them!

I'm considering cutting off the fingers apart from in the places they're
actually needed, to reduce the force, anyone else needed to do this, or
any form of tile-clip that might be handy?



I had starlings nesting in a ground floor bay roof.
This was specifically in one location, so I wedged chicken wire
across the access area.
The guttering covers the area so not visible from ground level.

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TheChief wrote:

I had starlings nesting in a ground floor bay roof. This was
specifically in one location, so I wedged chicken wire across the
access area.

If I had some odds'n'ends of chicken wire, I'd probably have given that
a try ... but for 50p each the combs are OK now, removing the tiles also
let me insert some offcuts of EPDM rubber where the felt run-off into
the gutter had largely crumbled away, presumably the starlings handiwork.

On 03/04/2017 14:22, Andy Burns wrote:
I've got one corner of the house where about every other year starlings
manage to wriggle under the tiles and nest in there, so far they haven't
made an appearance this year, so it being a nice day I decided I'd fit
some of those eaves filler, bird combs, bird guards, whatever.

http://www.toolstation.com/shop/p/p19205

Managed to slide up sufficient of the second row tiles that I could
remove the bottom row ones I needed to (except the edge tile which was
nailed) nailed a length of the comb onto the bottom tile batten,
pointing upwards and outwards as shown here ...

http://www.monier.in/fileadmin/_migrated/pics/Eave_filler_comb_with_tiles.jpg


I managed to piggle and slide the tiles back into their interlocking
positions, but the fingers apply quite a lot of upward force to the
bottom edge of the tiles in the places where there wasn't a gap to start
with, the bottom edge is raised maybe 1cm, which doesn't feel good in
terms of discouraging wind from getting in and lifting them!

I'm considering cutting off the fingers apart from in the places they're
actually needed, to reduce the force, anyone else needed to do this, or
any form of tile-clip that might be handy?



We have the similar 'combs' and tiles, we had the combs put in place
when we had new soffits / facias etc may be 8 years ago. They did 'stick
up' initially but settled very quickly, perhaps a day or two. Certainly
we've not had any issues with tiles lifting or birds etc.



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