Preventing Woodpecker Damage to Your Siding
Oct 31, 2024
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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.