How to Build the Roof of a Bat House

Video Transcript

"In this step we will be installing the top of our bat house and the bottom of our bat house. Now, the top piece is a little bit different. The top piece must be caulked again along these sides here and here and we will put a piece of caulk across here and after we screw the top on we will fill the gap in the back with caulk. Retrieve your caulk gun and put your bead across the face here. Now the size of the bead that comes out is dependent on two things. One, how fast you squeeze the handle, and two how fast you draw it across the board. Once again, don't forget to relieve the pressure off your caulk gun. Now, you take your board and you set your bat house on something flat like my table saw. You take your roof board, you set it down on the table saw, lean it into the bat house, aligning the two sides with it. Then you can take your drill, then drill into the sidewalls. Because you are drilling at an angle this time instead of into the table saw it has the tendency to push your bat house around. What you can do is lock your board down onto the table , or onto whatever you are building this on to hold the bat house from moving around when you are doing your drilling. This is what a completed bat house will look like. We still have to caulk the underside here to seal it to weather, these two corners here on both sides, and then this back groove. Then the bat house will be complete. And that is how you build a bat house."