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Please Note:
rmaday is a non-member guest and is in no way affiliated with InterNACHI or its members.
Pics are of badly repaired woodpecker damage. The bird in question made an appearance during the inspection.
Looking for food (WDI)? Making a nesting hole? Just making noise? What do you think? Here's a couple Woodpecker links... http://www.birds.cornell.edu/wp_about/holes.html http://www.ehow.com/how_5563381_repa...paign=yssp_art http://www.ianr.unl.edu/ianr/LANCO/N...ec99/page3.pdf |
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Looks bad.
I would call for Pest control professional and note damage. That bird seed insulation should be removed |
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Woodpeckers like to peck on wood. House is wood. The only solution is not to buy a wood house.
“The things that will destroy America are peace at any price, prosperity at any cost, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.” Theodore Roosevelt Joe Funderburk, CMI Alpha & Omega Home Inspections, LLC Inspecting Upstate SC & Charlotte Metro, NC NACHI ID: NACHI05120170 www.aohomeinspection.com |
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rmaday is a non-member guest and is in no way affiliated with InterNACHI or its members.
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![]() I posted the links to those that inspect wood houses to pass along, if they desire. |
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I think they do, sooner or later, if the house is in a rural or heavily wooded area.
“The things that will destroy America are peace at any price, prosperity at any cost, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.” Theodore Roosevelt Joe Funderburk, CMI Alpha & Omega Home Inspections, LLC Inspecting Upstate SC & Charlotte Metro, NC NACHI ID: NACHI05120170 www.aohomeinspection.com |
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My first house was vinyl with metal eaves. A woodpecker used to drive me insane pecking on the metal eave. I'd run outside with every intention of killing the thing, but he'd be gone. As I remember, he did that for months and months. Finally gave up. They are very wary. Difficult to get close to them.
“The things that will destroy America are peace at any price, prosperity at any cost, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.” Theodore Roosevelt Joe Funderburk, CMI Alpha & Omega Home Inspections, LLC Inspecting Upstate SC & Charlotte Metro, NC NACHI ID: NACHI05120170 www.aohomeinspection.com |
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Here Joe, the Woodpeckers make holes in the Stucco. And I belive they are protected......................
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Richard A. Hetzel is a non-member guest and is in no way affiliated with InterNACHI or its members.
It was explained to me by the California Redwood Association years ago that woodpeckers peck at houses during seasons where their natural food supply is scarce. I had a clent with an all-redwood house who had a wodpecker attack. The association suggested buying a carved wood owlm and hanging it where the little bird pecked. My client did that, and it was goodbye woodpecker forever.
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Woodpeckers "peck" on wood to get at insects. Unless you have a blind woodpecker, there may be bugs in the house. (assuming of course it was a woodpecker)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodpecker |
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I think the moral of this thread must be .........IF YOU LIVE IN A WOOD HOUSE THROW STONES AT A WOODPECKER.
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Every once in a great while, we will get one that will peck on the metal chimney cap, echoing and reverberating down the flue and magnified in the firebox. Usually around dawn. If you are not aware of what it is that will take the kinks out of your colon.
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing is worth a war, is worse. A man who has nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance at being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill |
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On another note InterNachi Awards Portal: http://co.nachi.org/inachiawards/ ____________________________________________ "An Education, not just an Inspection" Larry Kage, CMI Lake Ann (Traverse City), Michigan 49650 231 929 3525 Professional Inspector serving the Traverse City, Michigan area and beyond.
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Woodpecker peck for several reasons and what's necessary to get rid of them depends on why they're there.
Kenton Shepard, InterNACHI member # 04082383 Certified Master Inspector (CMI) InterNACHI Director of International Development Director of Green Building EXPERT WITNESS SERVICE Conventional and Log homes (303) 717-8940
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