How To Care For Bird Houses. Use a combination of wood bolts and wing-nuts to create a cleanout door. They want food water shelter privacy and a nice place to live.
Do not paint or treat the inside of your birdhouse. Dry each house thoroughly for several days in a cool indoor location so there is no possibility of mold or mildew developing. Remove all old nesting material and scrape out any feces or clumped matter.
If you want to preserve the exterior of a pine birdhouse you can mix a little brown or green oil-based paint with linseed oil.
Use more of green and brown because these colors blend with the natural environment. To access or cleanout your birdhouse simply remove some screws. 8172007 Cleaning of birdhouses should be done once a year at a minimum. 1292014 You dont want the birds to choke because of having accidently consumed paint.