Two bat house questions...

http://www.batcon.org/bhra/bhcriter.html

Read Para 3.

Bob S.


"Toller" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I asked a question a while back and found several people had built them...
>
> 1) I found a big pile of redwood 2x4s from an old deck; not too many nail
> holes. It will be a lot of gluing and resawing, but a heck of a lot
> cheaper than buying new cedar. They are painted on one surface. That
> won't hurt anything if I rough them up, will it? And the nail holes
> shouldn't matter much, should they? (should I put some caulk in the holes,
> or just leave them?)
>
> 2) The instructions I have say to stain them dark to absorb sunlight. I
> don't have any dark outdoor stain, but plenty of minwax provincal. Will
> that do, or is there a difference between indoor and outdoor stain?
>

On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 16:13:16 +0000, Toller wrote:

> than buying new cedar. They are painted on one surface. That won't hurt
> anything if I rough them up, will it? And the nail holes shouldn't matter

> 2) The instructions I have say to stain them dark to absorb sunlight. I

Bats, I am told, do not like paint. You probably want to plane/scrape all
the paint off. Sounds like a neat project. Find a local bat guru (the zoo,
the Univ) to tell you if the bats in your area need the extra heat that a
dark stain provides.

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