Sorry folks, no golf-pun intended here!

This page only provides with tips on what to do when you do not want any more birds. Make no mistake, we like the local birds as much as you do. But we prefer them to be outside and not in the house or in kitchen appliances – hence this page.

• The kitchen fan…
  Yes, we had a bird flying into the ventilation chimney of the roof and not able to make its way out again. After disassembly of the fan (quite an easy job) and removing the creature it was time to stop any future attempts of local wild-life to invade out property this way.
  Our solution was to close the chimney with chicken-wire. The holes should be large enough for free air flow (obviously…) but small enough to avoid even the smallest of birds entry to the inside of the chimney. Luckily, L&M offers 5meter rolls of plastic chicken-wire at a reasonable price. The material is UV graded and each roll includes a set of tie-raps needed to mount the contraption. Our chimney measures 40cm high and little over 1,5meter around. With 4 chimneys we needed 2 rolls.
  Here’s the result:
  
  
  With the benefit of hindsight I reckon you even could get away with dismantling the top of the chimney and put the chicken-wire on the inside… That way you’ll need less material and keep a more original setup.
  Notes:
  – Also the downstairs apartments are hooked up to these chimneys.
  – Avoid using cheap cable ties from the china store, they will not last long.
  – My ladder is only 80 cm high and too short for this job, make sure to have a higher ladder.
• The washing-room…
  The washing room sports a 50x210cm grate to allow for fresh air. Unfortunately, on our side of the building (neighbors on the other side seem to have no problem with this), the local birds like to meet and interact in a leisurely manner. Whilst enjoying themselves, they tend to sit on the sink, the boiler, the grate itself and anything else you left standing there including, in our case, the washing machine. So with droppings everywhere we decided last time out to do something about this.
  Our chosen solution consists of putting a sheet of plexiglass on the inside of the grate. As a photo tells more than a thousand words…
  Before:
  
  …during:
  
  
  
  …after:
  
  Notes:
  – Avoid cutting the plexiglass sheets, I bought 50cm wide panels that were too long. Then I made them overlap 30cm in order to avoid cutting them.
  – The plexiglass panel has been installed so that it can easily be removed in order to clean the backside of it.