All of our Brick Slips are completely Frost and Heat resistant with a fire rating of A1, they are non-combustible. Combined with this most of us who get a new idea, hobby or interest, can't wait to get started and most of us do make mistakes initially. Ideally you should situate your Dovecote Nest box so that the hole faces north north-east away from the prevailing weather conditions.

Manufactured from quality timber, these dovecotes will make a beautiful feature in your garden and provide a home for your doves. Roof construction; similarly tongued and grooved clad, with pine scotia edging strips, using 25 x 38mm treated timber frame on 12. These 4 or 5-star reviews represent the opinions of the individuals who posted them and do not reflect the views of Etsy. The main criteria when building a dovecote is that the finished dovecote should look pleasing to the eye (your eye), and be long lasting with minimum maintenance. To ensure you have the perfect brick slips for you and your home, we have designed our brick slips for both internal and external walls.You can reduce the size to a minimum of a 9'' cube, but the dovecote will only be suitable for straight tailed garden doves. Many of the features that make up a practical dovecote will also help to reduce labour hours and the cost of maintenance regardless of whether that maintenance is general housekeeping or periodic maintenance. Even if you have a very pointed roof you will still see the odd ones who appear to be hanging on to it like grim death.

It needs to be suitable for continuous exterior use; so any paint recommended for exterior doors and window frames etc.The roof is under felted, finished with treated feather edged timber and topped with a treated timber finial. If you have a post mounted dovecote with pop-holes facing in all directions then this fact becomes less important as some pop-holes will get a plentiful amount and others will get little or none. There's only one alternative to pop-holes facing in different directions and that's to have them all facing in the same direction. When I built RoadRunners dovecote I deliberately made the roof a comfortable 120 degrees and I have seen over 30 doves roosting on it in the daytime.

This Dovecote was excellent quality it arrived on a pallet very well packed and the driver was very helpful as my father is 85 years of age and driver brought it as close to house as possible it is now up in the garden looking good. Pigeons and doves make up the bird family "Columbidae", which includes around 310 species, there is no strict division between doves and pigeons. One of its big advantages is that the quality marine plywood doesn't have voids or weak patches in the centre.This hexagonal dovecote is currently the largest in our range and is intended for mounting on a post. The greatest step you can take in this respect is to ensure that it is not within 3 metres, (10-feet) of any tree, hedge, wall or building etc. Redwood has a natural chemical that helps protect it from the effects of; weather, rot, and decay from insect damage.