Video: How to Add Mesh to a Bat House

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Put mesh in your homemade bat house to helps bats climb and roost. Learn how to build a bat house with mesh in this free bat conservation video.

- Build the Base of a Bat House

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In this step we will be attaching the ceiling and the plastic mesh to the back of the bat house. The mesh is used so the bats have something to climb up and use with their claws to get into the house with. To install the ceiling we take our three-quarter inch piece of ceiling stalk that we cut, we line it up with the top edge of our side rails, this way, and then we drill through the sides with our screws. Ensuring that the ceiling is flat and square to the back. Again, only drawing the screws down to flush with the sidewalls. Now, we take the plastic mesh, we unroll it, and we cut it. You can use a pair of scissors for this, or a pair of tin snips to cut this plastic mesh with. Unroll the plastic mesh into the bottom, take your staple gun, put about four staples across the bottom and up the sidewalls about every six inches, and then put it at a staple across the top. With our bird house, we require a second mesh next to the first. Again, line the bottom up, you add your staples at the bottom, and again about every six inches up the mesh to the top. When you're finished your mesh and ceiling should look similar to this. And this is how you add the mesh and the ceiling to your bat house.

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How to Add Mesh to a Bat House

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