Preventing Woodpecker Damage to Your Siding

Fasto Roofing provides essential tips on preventing woodpecker damage to your home's siding, ensuring long-term protection and maintaining your property's aesthetics.

Why Woodpeckers Damage Siding

• Attraction to Wood: Woodpeckers are drawn to cedar shake, tongue and groove cedar siding, and other wood types.

• Activities: They nest, store food, and create holes, especially during mating season.

How to Safeguard Your Siding

Eliminate Food Sources

• Pest Control: Woodpeckers drill into siding to find pests like termites, carpenter ants, or carpenter bees. Keeping your siding pest-free reduces woodpecker activity.

• Inspection: If woodpeckers are present, check for pest infestations and address them promptly.

Prevention Tips

• Reflective Materials: Use highly reflective objects with unpredictable movements to scare off woodpeckers.

• Wind Chimes: Place wind chimes to create an environment that woodpeckers dislike.

• Fake Birds: Use fake owls or hawks near the wood trim, moving them periodically to prevent woodpeckers from getting used to them.

• Shiny Objects: Hang shiny objects like CDs near woodpecker-prone areas to deter them.

• Lures: Hang suet feeders on dead trees to attract woodpeckers away from your home.

Install Resistant Siding

• Fiber Cement Siding: James Hardie fiber cement siding is made of cement, sand, and cellulose fibers, making it inedible and resistant to woodpecker damage.

• Durability: Installing this siding ensures protection from woodpeckers and pests, preventing costly damage.

Repairing Damaged Siding

• Large Holes: Indicate nesting and require replacing damaged panels.

• Small Holes: May be patched or covered with metal flashing and painted to match the home.

Conclusion

Preventing woodpecker damage is crucial to maintaining your home's siding. 

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