Anti-Perching spikes.

[Donwill]

Does anybody know how effective these things are:

'm hoping to deter pigeones from perching on the ridge of the conservatory and sh......g on it. Cheers Don

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Donwill saying something like:

Those Cobbler Pigeons are right noisy bastards, sitting up and hammering nails in all night long.

[Bob Minchin]

When you see them used on buildings they look pretty effective but the slightest gap and there is often a matching stain down the walls. I used something similar but plastic on the ridge of our garden swing and the seat is now sh*t free. It is called bird comb and available from places that sell upvc cladding and roofline plastic products.

like this

cheaper too!

Bob

[Bob Minchin]

Just to add, the fingers are at about 110 degree to the fixing face so two lengths in parallel make a V like strip similar to the screw fix picture.

Bob

[John]

>>>>> I'm hoping to deter pigeones from perching on the ridge of the

Some houses across the road from me that face a park with a lake were troubled with gulls. The metal spikes (Screwfix type) have worked well for the last 3 of 4 years with no sign of falling off or deteriorating

[GMM]

This sort of thing was fitted on the sills at work a while ago and we seem to have a lot fewer pigeons and a lot less of their by-products around the place. Mind you, at the same time, they did manage to encourage some falcons to take up residence, so that would've helped things along quite a bit......

[Donwill]

Thanks for that Bob, I'll bite the bullet and get tham fived up. BTW the Myford has had very liitle work to date, mainly perspex, but in time !!! :-) Don

[Donwill]

Many thanks for all the contributions, I have purchased a pack of 10 and hope to fix them this week.

Cheers Don

[Andy Dingley]

Same as most such things - they're effective in making them go elsewhere. So how far is "elsewhere", and is that enough? Also any gap or remaining perch space could still be popular.