I’ve lived in this house for over twenty years and the pigeons have certainly tested my patience. When I first moved in they were roosting under the eaves. The house is two storey so it wasn’t easy for me at that time to get up there and so it was weeks before I shifted them and cleaned up the shit.

Under the house is the garage and storage area, the house is built on stilts, and so there were many access points for determined pigeons.

One day as I drove into the garage I saw two pigeons looking at me from one of the overhead beams, looking as proud as punch and no doubt saying “Ha Fuck Off!”

I tried in vain that night to get rid of them. I chased them with a big stick, threw things at them and they just flew around shitting as they went.

I tried to find all the access points and blocked them up and eventually got them out but they hung around for days. I started to hose them down and that seemed to work although I could hear them up on the roof clattering about.

They soon got the message and migrated across the street where I used to see them sneak under an opening in the eave but I couldn’t care less because they were gone.🤗

Years later I got solar panels and they just love solar panels and it wasn’t long before they came over for a swatch. They liked what they saw and crawled underneath to nest. At first I didn’t realise because they had been so quiet. Clever buggers!

I couldn’t get up onto the roof and so all I could do was to use the hose, but they were just out of range and just laughed at me. A couple of weeks passed before I could borrow a ladder to get up to the roof. Not a fan of roofs. By this time they had moved in and were building their dream home but I as the big bad wolf brought my hose and washed the whole house down. I can’t say I was proud of myself but I can’t have them nesting underneath the panels as the shit is toxic and goodness knows what it would have done to the panels and the corrugated roof.

I used plastic gutter guard which is like netting to cover the sides and thick foam to seal the top and this worked quite well, however the foam began to disintegrate and debris was building up behind it and it was causing problems during really heavy rain which has been fairly common over the last few years and so this week I threw away the foam and tried plan B.

I first got some small bolts and attached them to the edges of the panels using Liquid Nails, left it for 24 hours and then got more gutter guard and clipped it onto the bolts and secured with a washer and nut. A few more cable ties to stitch it together and I think it looks pretty good. Not sure how it will survive the first storms of the season but I know that the rain will flow off  the roof better since the foam is gone and I’m confident at the moment that the pigeons will be kept out, mind you I’ve said that before 😝