Check this link for easy wood Ideas tinyurl.com/y7... This video will help you to build a bird house with wine corks. You will need 150 gently used corks, one glue gun, 6 large glue sticks and 1 hour of your time. Have fun !
Does anyone know how to clean the corks when they mildew? I made a few bird houses with cork and set them outside on my porch but over the summer they are turning dark with what looks like mildew.
love this idea and have many corks may only issue is that the video is much too fast to folllow and are there written illustrated instructions available??
If I counted correctly: Bottom: 5 x 4 = 20 corks Both rows of walls: 2 x 9 + 5 = 2 x 23 = 46 Both sides of the roof: 2 x 3 x 12 = 72 Frontside, backside & topline: 19 + 9 + 6 = 34 2 corks for repairing, total 174 corks.
I think that between your contribution to viticulture (Spanish wine, I trust) and Elena's to conservation you are both involved in an incredibly worthwhile project between you.
This is just superb, been searching for "simple bird houses plans" for a while now, and I think this has helped. You ever tried - Daniliana Birdfly Babar - (just google it ) ? Ive heard some interesting things about it and my buddy got excellent success with it.
A hot glue gun exudes heated glue, a silicone based glue I believe, which is supposed to be stronger and is certainly stickier. You can get them from Leroy Merlin on my side of Málaga near the Guadalhorce. Actually, what is being made looks more like an IED for birds being made with small dynamite sticks. Cheers, Andy
