If birds nest on your roof, call professionals instead of handling it yourself. Bird mites, feather dust, and blocked gutters cause health problems and water damage. Jarrad Goulding recommends inspection, species identification, and proofing with spikes or sealed entry points rather than poisoning.
The best thing to do if you have birds nesting on your roof is call a professional. Professionals know about different species of birds, where they nest, so they know the best course of action in proofing them. If you just to leave the birds up there, they're not going to go away. They come back seasonally. A lot of birds that once they nest in a particular area, they will come back there every spring to have their young year after year after year. So get in a professional, proof up the areas of problem that will prevent them from nesting there next year, and then that should fix your problem. The reason you don't want birds nesting in or on your roof is they can bring a lot of diseases with them, particularly pigeons. They have some diseases that they carry. They also have dust in their feathers, can actually cause lung disease. So they are a bit of a health risk to people. Another reason that you want to get rid of them is a lot of birds have bird mites. So a little mite that live on the birds, but once the birds leave the nest, they leave the bird mites behind, and then the bird mites actually go throughout the person's home looking for a new host. And that new host is people. Bird mites aren't something that you want to have to deal with. So get rid of the birds. You shouldn't have that problem. Another reason you would like to get rid of the birds is they cause havoc. They're nesting up on the roof. They're waking people up early on Saturday mornings can be quite annoying for the homeowner. Another reason to get rid of pigeons, they have a lot of droppings. They fill up the gutters. The gutters are then too full for stormwater to run down. I then have had properties where that stormwater runs back inside the house, does water damage, all because they got pigeons nesting on the roof. I've seen them do damage to solar panels. One client's solar panels caught on fire because of the damage that they were causing underneath the solar panels. So you've made that investment with the solar panels. You, you don't want to lose that investment because of a couple of pesky pigeons. Give us a call. The best way to prevent birds from nesting on your roof or in your roof is to proof off those areas, prevent them from being able to gain access. So solar panels, we have a product that clips into the surrounds of the solar panel to prevent any birds from getting in. Underneath, we have other things like bird spikes to prevent them from sitting on ledges and nesting. We proof up the corners of roofs holes where they're getting in. So proofing is the best option. Poisoning birds is not a good idea because it's all about targeting specific birds. And obviously if you're baiting different birds can take that, the poison. That's not a good look. It's also against the law if they're native species. So baiting, poisoning birds is not really a good option. What you can expect is that we're going to inspect the areas, find out what species of bird we're dealing with, what areas of the house they're nesting in, so that we can proof up those areas. What we need from you to prepare is not a lot. We just need some information. We need for you to tell us where and when you're hearing or seeing activity, so that way we, we can put in the best plan to help you with your problem. Then afterwards, that should be it. You shouldn't have any more problems with the birds nesting. But as always, with all of our jobs, you have a warranty. So if they are coming back, still giving you trouble in those areas, give us a call, we'll come back, we'll make sure that we fix the problem.
