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Son's siding has sizable woodpecker damage. What would you use to fill the holes?

Woodpecker holes
 

On Sun, 17 Sep 2017 10:34:42 -0700 (PDT), "Gramps' shop"
wrote:

Son's siding has sizable woodpecker damage.
What would you use to fill the holes?


Define " sizable " in terms of biggest hole size and
in terms of the number of holes.
.. my first thought was to replace sections of siding -
but too many unknowns to even guess ..
Are you positive that it's woodpeckers doing all the damage ?
... and not just occasional woodpecker activity -
with red squirrels doing the most damage ?
John T.

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Thanks John. Looks like 6x6 inch area in pix son sent. He just needs temporary fix to hold until spring repainting.

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Son's siding has sizable woodpecker damage.
What would you use to fill the holes?


Define " sizable " in terms of biggest hole size and
in terms of the number of holes.
.. my first thought was to replace sections of siding -
but too many unknowns to even guess ..
Are you positive that it's woodpeckers doing all the damage ?
.. and not just occasional woodpecker activity -
with red squirrels doing the most damage ?
John T.


Thanks John. Looks like 6x6 inch area in pix son sent.
He just needs temporary fix to hold until spring repainting.


A 6 x 6 inch hole - it might be a very rare member of
Pterodactylus - beware - it's excavating a nest
for laying the single egg ..
... or maybe it's a 6 x 6 inch area with a number of little
woodpecker holes .. dunno.
Your posts are always fun, though - thanks.
John T.

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On 9/17/2017 12:34 PM, Gramps' shop wrote:
Son's siding has sizable woodpecker damage. What would you use to fill the holes?


Brick, wood, composite, vinyl, etc?

Assuming wood, Rock Hard filler

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Gramps' shop wrote:
Son's siding has sizable woodpecker damage. What would you use to fill the holes?

They like suet! : )

(sorry)

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On Sunday, September 17, 2017 at 1:34:47 PM UTC-4, Gramps' shop wrote:
Son's siding has sizable woodpecker damage. What would you use to fill the holes?

Maybe he has, maybe he hasn't, but if he doesn't get rid of whatever the
woodpeckers are digging for he'd have to side the house with concrete to
prevent further damage.

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On Sun, 17 Sep 2017 14:55:43 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
wrote:

On Sunday, September 17, 2017 at 1:34:47 PM UTC-4, Gramps' shop wrote:
Son's siding has sizable woodpecker damage. What would you use to fill the holes?

Maybe he has, maybe he hasn't, but if he doesn't get rid of whatever the
woodpeckers are digging for he'd have to side the house with concrete to
prevent further damage.

He may be just horny or there may be an intruder. In the spring, a
woodpecker loves to drum on our galvanized chimney cap (would that be
a cymbal?).

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On 9/17/2017 5:55 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Sunday, September 17, 2017 at 1:34:47 PM UTC-4, Gramps' shop wrote:
Son's siding has sizable woodpecker damage. What would you use to fill the holes?

Maybe he has, maybe he hasn't, but if he doesn't get rid of whatever the
woodpeckers are digging for he'd have to side the house with concrete to
prevent further damage.

We had a woodpecker that cut into our attic through the wood slat vent
in the gable of the roof. My first impulse was to limit the birds
access to the total attic, so I put a cat cage over the hole he created.
Over the next couple days I realized the only way to prevent the bird
from want to access the attic was to convince him he did not want in
there. So I first put an old cookie sheet in the bottom of the cat
cage, thinking about it put enough motor oil on it to cover the cookie
sheet. and finally added some moth balls to the oil.

I worked and I forgot about the whole thing until we had the house
stained and the painter came to me with a very puzzled look on his face.
I don't remember if we sold the house with that contraption up there
or not, but we had no problems with woodpeckers



--
2017: The year we learn to play the great game of Euchre

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On 9/17/2017 6:18 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 17 Sep 2017 14:55:43 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
wrote:

On Sunday, September 17, 2017 at 1:34:47 PM UTC-4, Gramps' shop wrote:
Son's siding has sizable woodpecker damage. What would you use to fill the holes?

Maybe he has, maybe he hasn't, but if he doesn't get rid of whatever the
woodpeckers are digging for he'd have to side the house with concrete to
prevent further damage.

He may be just horny or there may be an intruder. In the spring, a
woodpecker loves to drum on our galvanized chimney cap (would that be
a cymbal?).

Of his authority?

--
2017: The year we learn to play the great game of Euchre

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Fifty years ago a friend of mine bought an old two room school house in
the Sierra foothils of CA.
I help in the renovation. Under eaves there was a row of woodpecker
holes and when we pulled
off the siding a cascade of acorns came falling down. The WP had
insulated the walls with acorns.
They are not too bright as they hope the acorns will attact bugs and
become infested with worms.
If they do this in a tree, the acorn stays in the hole and does
produce worms. They could not figure
out tha the ones they put in the building just went away.
CP

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On Sun, 17 Sep 2017 19:10:14 -0400, Keith Nuttle
wrote:

On 9/17/2017 6:18 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 17 Sep 2017 14:55:43 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
wrote:

On Sunday, September 17, 2017 at 1:34:47 PM UTC-4, Gramps' shop wrote:
Son's siding has sizable woodpecker damage. What would you use to fill the holes?

Maybe he has, maybe he hasn't, but if he doesn't get rid of whatever the
woodpeckers are digging for he'd have to side the house with concrete to
prevent further damage.

He may be just horny or there may be an intruder. In the spring, a
woodpecker loves to drum on our galvanized chimney cap (would that be
a cymbal?).

Of his authority?

Another male in his territory, sure. You know drummers. The louder
the better. rdh

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On 9/17/2017 4:08 PM, Leon wrote:
On 9/17/2017 12:34 PM, Gramps' shop wrote:
Son's siding has sizable woodpecker damage.Â* What would you use to fill the
holes?


Brick, wood, composite, vinyl, etc?

Assuming wood, Rock Hard filler

Bondo would probably work

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On Sun, 17 Sep 2017 10:34:42 -0700 (PDT)
"Gramps' shop" wrote:

Son's siding has sizable woodpecker damage. What would you use to
fill the holes?

guess it depends on the siding and the backing

if there is backing i would go with some exterior thin set mortar

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Thanks. Actually, it was a 1 inch deep hole about 1 inch in diameter. Filled it with some of that expanding foam. Hole plugged and we'll see if that pecker come back.

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On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 20:29:46 -0700 (PDT), "Gramps' shop"
wrote:

Thanks. Actually, it was a 1 inch deep hole about 1 inch in diameter.
Filled it with some of that expanding foam.
Hole plugged and we'll see if that pecker come back.


Well done - I can certainly see why you & your son
needed all the assistance for this sort of dilemma -
before it became a catastrophe !
John T.

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On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 20:29:46 -0700 (PDT)
"Gramps' shop" wrote:

Thanks. Actually, it was a 1 inch deep hole about 1 inch in
diameter. Filled it with some of that expanding foam. Hole plugged
and we'll see if that pecker come back.

make sure you cover it with paint because that foam usually breaks down
under uv light

now i wonder how woodpeckers sense the density of the wood

do they just peck randomly until they find a soft spot

if they do they might just find that foam spot and also find it
suitable for storage

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On Saturday, October 14, 2017 at 9:12:58 PM UTC-5, Electric Comet wrote:


now i wonder how woodpeckers sense the density of the wood

They don't have to be concerned with wood density.

do they just peck randomly until they find a soft spot

They can hear the grubs inside the decaying wood and peck towards the sound. Most grub infected wood is less dense than healthy growing wood. Grubs are less likely to be in healthy wood.

As to siding boards, I think most may be cedar or some other soft wood, besides being relatively thin and usually no match for a manly peckahead.

Sonny

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I have a cabin in the low Sierras of Calif. [2400 ft elev.] . Here
they peck holes in which to put acorns.

When bugs invade the nuts they come back for a meal. But basically they
are not too bright.

I helped restore an old 2 room school house, the upper row of siding
had a complete line of holes.

When we pulled off the lower boards, we were showered with acorns.
They just kept putting them in.

Hope springs eternal. It does work for dead trees.

CP

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On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 20:40:09 -0700
MOP CAP wrote:

When bugs invade the nuts they come back for a meal. But basically
they are not too bright.

seem to be smart enough or smart as is needed

they are fun to watch

always with purpose and very busy and like their calls

Hope springs eternal. It does work for dead trees.

well the bugs will still find those acorns and the peckers may
not be able to benefit directly but it increases the bug population
and then in turn there will be more bugs to find the acorns the peckers
store in a more accessible spot