Live Roof Birdhouse

Diy easy green roof birdhouses from our fairfield home and garden.

Live roof birdhouse.

Secure the roof with two nails along each roofline for a total of eight nails. Once the roof is in place attach the long metal flashing to the center of the peaked roof using a bead of silicone and six flashing nails. Live roofs or green roofs are really popular for birdhouses and are relatively simple to create. All houses and feeders have removable roofs for easy clean out and durable bodies with proper drainage and ventilation.

Attract some chic chicks to your yard with this mid mod birdhouse complete with living roof. Feeders have a removable finial for easy quick refills. Then go to the opposite side and pull the wire tightly over the roof and moss and secure the wire into the wood frame with the stapler. She and her husband jeff launched a hobby business together called rebecca s bird gardens.

Do the front and back of the birdhouse last. Eric berman of erikson birdhouses describes how to make a wooden birdhouse with copper roof. In the same way this is the place where birds nestle together in the winter so they can keep each other warm. The business behind the birdhouse rebecca nickols was looking for a creative outlet from her job and so was born the living roof birdhouse.

From there plant greenery that has shallow root systems. Dechant s railroad express birdhouse roofing asphalt miniature roof covering birdfeeders building projects craft supplies black 5 0 out of 5 stars 1 15 99 15. Starting on one side staple the wire in place. To convert an existing birdhouse add trim around the roof line to create a cavity.

Run a bead of glue along the peaked edge of the top of the birdhouse base and center the roof panels on top. Copper roof bird houses and feeders constructed with cellular pvc which will not split rot or fade. Position the chicken wire evenly over the roof frame.