Sparrow Community House

This isn't really an Instructable.

I think most of you know how to screw some boards together.

It is more to give you an inspiration like Steven did with his bird house to me.

We have a really big garden with a lot of bird houses for our ~25 different bird species.

Most of them are residents.

So every early spring i have to

- Cut the bird houses free

- Empty them

- Burn them clean with a torch

- And hang them up again.

There must be a way to make this faster and much cleaner... and damn i need to build a house for my sparrows.

So what do we have in the shed:

• A board 14x3cm and 1,6m long

• Boards from a slatted frame 9x1,5cm 1,2m long

• A 1" pipe 200mm (Rohrdoppelnippel in german :) )

• 1 1/4" pole

• Some roofing felt
• wood screws..

And the main ingredient

• 1m sewer pipe (DN110).

Just kidding. The drawing came much later on a rainy afternoon.

I normaly just eyeball the dimensions, scribble the idea in my workshop logbook and iterate me step by step to my goal.

This time i started with the sewer pipe rest and cut it in 4 equal pieces (17cm).

The pipe pieces lead to the length of the front and back piece and to the dimensions of the spacers.

The bottom is doubled to hold the 1" fastening pipe (Drill 30mm and get the big wrench to screw it in).

The fastening pipe sticks later on a pole.

To clean it i have only to loosen four screws, take the side off and empty the pipe pieces on the compost.

To get a place in the garden it had to pass the quality/appealing control instance.

So it got a nice coat of douglas fir oil and a "real" roof with roofing felt.