How to Make a Bat House 

Next time you need to cut shingles, score/cut the back side with your razor knife and the shingle will fold and break on the score for a nice straight edge without eating your blade up from just a cut or two by the grit on the top side.

The link to your Rockwell saw is actually a link to the roof sealant. Great video. My daughter (8yo) and I are starting our bat box next week. Thanks.

The multi-screw piece of wood to make the grooves is brilliant. I will happily use that on my next box. I spent many hours using a table saw to cut grooves 1/2 inch apart on all climbing sides of a fairly large 4-chamber house.

I gave the thumbs up after 25 seconds. Highfive for nature-friendly family!😉😊

Great instructions!! Just a few comments. I agree with use of a waterproofing stain and sealer on all interior surfaces, preferably a dark color, in addition to painting the exterior an appropriate color. The fumes soon dissipate and appear not to be a problem for bats. I like the recessed landing area and strongly recommend a well-roughened surface.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us, my boyfriend too. I printed your plans from the link you shared and am on the way to the hardware store to get supplies to build several bat houses. I appreciate you not using material on the inside of their home (just one less hazardous potential for them)! I think you are so adorable. Its okay...I am an older lady with sons older then you. I bet you make your parents proud! Again, thank you for sharing, and doing a great video.

I'm curious why you painted it all first? Wood glue doesn't "bond" fully to painted surfaces, but also it just seems like it's possibly more difficult to do? Was it to preserve the wood? Probably lasts longer with all sides painted I would think? Just curious. Not a criticism.

I must say your videos are really professional and you're a great carpenter.

Hi Vinnie, I watched this video, subscribed and cut all the wood up as per the PDF, next to paint and screw together. I’ll be screwing this box to a 4x4 x12’ post at the bottom of the yard facing south. Take care Rob

AWesome dude..LOVE your work..LOve the bloopers 2..Funny Stuff....Cant believe someone would give you a thumbs down..

Good Job! Suggestion: For your next Bat House, make the interior walls go only to 2 inches from the roof at the front and all other interior walls stop at that same level. Before pacing the roof on, lay a plywood floor on top of the the walls with a 2 inch hole in it. Then secure the roof on. You have just built a Bat House with a Nursery. Before the Bats go out at night, they will take the Pups (Baby Bats) to he Nursery.for that night's Nursery Workers (Mothers) to pack them all together in one, two or three "piles" and cover the Pups with their bodies to maintain their body temperature. The Nursery is also where many/all the Female Bats will give birth. Then in a few weeks, the number of Bats which drop out at dusk will increase until the Colony will double +/-. Most, if not all the Bats in your Colony will be females. The males usually are not part of a colony. (My experience has been that one or two Bats stay in the close vicinity to reward the owner with bug free evenings....... and days. You may catch site of them patrolling within feet of you. But don't worry about them bumping into you. They are excellent graceful flyers. The jerky flying is them eating bugs they have caught on the front of their bodies and in their wing pits.)

THANK YOU! I have been searching for days for a well laid out that house plan. Then I found Makify! Your video and your plans are exactly what I was looking for! And I subscribe to your channel now, too.

I've been watching your videos recently, and i'm so subscribing to your channel. You do amazing stuff, with good simple explanations and with the actual free template of your projects to encourage people to dow its own stuff, and that speaks a lot about the good person you seem to be. Keep up the good work, you rock!

Nice bat house. That will house a lot of bats.

You can build a catchment (beneficially copper lined) below the entrance to collect the bat guano. This natural fertilizer is a highly prized and sought after by gardeners.

Outstanding video and plans. Good job Vinny.

Hey looks great. I love the design and craftsmanship. I would love to have a couple of those. So does she have this house full of bats?? If so I'm going to follow this design exactly. If she doesn't mind maybe a success update. Dusk watch on her bat house to see how many come flying out for their nightly hunt for bugs?? Would be really cool for you and us to see success on this house you built with your own hands.

here is a tip , when you guys splice the roosting grooves, stain the wood first , it softens the wood and makes it easier

always a nice and clean video edition, and a good idea!

Nice box. Try cutting the shingles on the back side. Or use a hook blade to cut from the grit side.

Very thorough and the pace was totally professional. Well done. Subbed. Building one very soon. We are over run with bats on our covered porches. Vacuumed up 3 gallons of bat guano yesterday. Going in the garden of course.

The video, finally a bat house instruction that’s makes sense. I’m not a carpenter so figuring this out was difficult as most of the instruction plans or videos didn’t make sense or. Left out parts you were expected to know as a woodworker. The plan link didn’t show up on the video, so how do I get it. Thanks you very much.

Thank you so much for posting this video! I cut all my pieces, painting is done, ready to screw the bat house together but noticed the sides at 4 1/8" wide should be 4 1/2" to meet directly under the two front pieces? I did see the same width listed on the Bat Conservation website plans as well.

grazie makify e la prima che vedo grande number one compliments

Very informative

Great video and plans! My only concern is the landing pad where the bats enter. Adding some fine mesh will help the bats crawl up into their home!

I once saw bat house plans that recommended rough cut cedar or cutting grooves in the interior areas for the bats to cling to. I would not stain the interior because bats should not be exposed to paint or stain.

nice one. looks like you're in a new shop now.

Nice..thank you for the video, did you ever get any bats ?

Hey just curious how you would recommend hanging this now that it is all assembled

Good video, but I wouldn't stain the interior panels - keep their home interior more natural :)

Stack your parts drill through and use carriage bolts much less hardware and never paint the inside.or even stain it. Bats noses are very sensitive and will avoid the boxes.

You're missing a feature for the bats to hang onto in the house, you should have added slits or a mesh

Hey, I'm using your plans (actually, I downloaded two different sets of very similar plans, then got them mixed up -- DOH!!! -- but most of my bat box is from your plans). I'm curious though what the cutouts in the sides are for (ventilation?) and why the front panel is two separate pieces and how much the gap between the two front panel pieces should be? Thanks for making the plans available.

2024, link to plans no longer work. I appreciate your instructional video. Well done! Please update link for plans. Thanks.

Would love to see you make a Purple Martin Bird house!

I bought a bat house on Amazon and put it on a pole per instructions but no bats have used it. Instead they get into the metal rail that supports my large sliding barn door. They get injured or go into shock if I open the barn door. I need a better system for them.

A follow up video showing bats in it?

I don't see the batman logo on it anywhere... fail... lol joking aside looks good.

Do you think bats would still go in if it was a little smaller? I'm thinking about just 12 wide?

What if you have bats in your attic and you want to build a house, or two, to lure them out so you can block up all the entrances they're using. Where should you then put their new and improved Bat House? On the house, even though it's not over 9' high or on a tree and at 15'+? Any advice? Please...

never paint inside the chamber the smell of paint won't get bats

Maybe you could catch a bat, pin it to the front of the bat house and.spray paint over it. Then when you remove the bat you'll have a nice bat decal.😁

Hey tried clicking and downloading the plans but it's says your website is not active

Where and how did you mount this?

So how do you mount the bat house?

Nice plan and vid. Looks like you have a $500 band saw...did you not have enough left over to buy a few clamps? Metal weights don't, a clamp, make. 😉

Great!

What is the purpose of the notch on the side pieces?

What are the side slots for? Are they necessary?

Yes hi, how big was the Bat ensuite again.

Updates: does it work? How can we improve it if we need to? What changes, if any, would you make?

Nice Bat house but can you make one in a parking lot? ...that is the question

Next time double up that bottom sheet of shingles for full rain protection, or use the full, unbroken sheet. Great build I will most definitely copy!

How do you fix it to the wall?

Bats need totally natural environment chemically No paint or stain, it’s all toxic to Bats

May we order three from you ?

No landing no groves NO BUENO

No you can't because it says an error plans can not be shown

You went to great lengths to insure a long lasting house. I prefer this over pesticides.

non ho capito cos'è?

How will this be mounted?

bats like living in very small spaces apparently

FYI, you are gluing paint to paint and relying on the paint to make the bond (not worth the time or money), just saying. Plus, your paint just made all your roughened surfaces slippery. Looks like someone needs a vise? Maybe save your paint, roofing, and glue monies and buy a used one for about the same cost and you could make a video about restoring it.

Do NOT paint southern Box's Black or any dark color------ Great Plan except for that!.

The lack of precision in your woodwork is disturbing

You built a bat house and gave instructions before you knew if bats would like it? You shouldn't post until you are sure it's a good house.