Bat House Forum

[William Bagwell]

If anyone else has wondered about the difference between retail pet mesh and ordinary plastic screen this picture shows them side by side.



Quite a large difference in the size of the strands and almost no difference in the hole size. Unfortunate for me since I bought it to sift sand Of course I have been wanting some to experiment with anyway so it will not go to waste

William

[Markcuda]

this picture shows them side by side.

What am I missing?

[William Bagwell]

Nothing really. I just thought someone would find the comparison useful. Almost no commercial web site has pictures large enough to actually see what you are getting.

William

[Markcuda]

William, are you coherent today?
Your picture only shows one thing, not two different things.

[William Bagwell]

If it has scroll bars, left click the image. If it does not, then right click the image and chose whatever will open it in a new window or tab on your system. Apparently I need to re size it a bit smaller... Done!

http://mysecondbathouse.com/houses/petmesh_and_screen_med.jpg Is the URL to open the original medium size not embedded in this page. And if your clever and edit the browser string from "http//...screen_med.jpg" to "http//...screen_lrg.jpg" you will get an insanely huge view.

William

[Markcuda]

The link you just posted worked great.
I had no idea on how to get the picture bigger on your first suggestion.
I thought screen door screen was a no no to use?

[William Bagwell]

I thought screen door screen was a no no to use?

Absolutely! Unless your sifting sand

http://mysecondbathouse.com/houses/sand.jpg Not going to go through all that again Number 4 is what I am hoping to try on my next batch of prototypes. Sadly I only have one pound of it because the two screens I used were too close to the same size. http://mysecondbathouse.com/houses/sandtextured_plastic.jpg That was done with sand blast sand (#2 in other picture) because it was all I had handy.

William

[cloudman75]

This first photo contained both items for me side by each. I have used heavy duty door screening. It comes unmeshed at the bottom over time if you staple it. Glue might work to prevent it. I no longer use it as rough lumber provides a good holding surface for bats. The adults can cling to dressed vertical lumber in an attic like a 2x8 or 2x6 . The bats love pet mesh as one of my houses has that and pups don't fall from that one as a general rule.

Frank

[Markcuda]

Not sure what happened but they both show up now side by side.

[William Bagwell]

I swapped the picture out for a smaller one. Not sure why when other people post extra large pictures they show up with scroll bars. Mine was just cut off, though I could apparently see more of it than you could since I could still see part of the normal screen on the right.

William

[flyin-lowe]

I just cut grooves in the houses that I built. In my limited bit of researching it seemed to me it was a better choice then the mesh. It seemed after a couple years the mesh would go to $h1t. Do most of you use mesh or not? Just a curious newbie.

[Markcuda]

My two houses were built with nylon mesh
from the factory.
I just hope it holds up, but if they never see bats, they should last a long time

[Terry Lobdell]

I have not used mesh in about 4 years to build a bat box............I now only use rough sawn one inch boards for baffles..........The bats definitely do like mesh (I was using pet mesh) but a rough sawn surface works just as well and is much less expensive and time consuming than using mesh........