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Part 1 By John Bernardes This article is the first part of a series of articles that will appear throughout this coming year. My goal is to describe in detail how to go about building an outdoor bird room step by step. I will attempt to explain the construction of the building as accurate as possible without boring the reader. This will not be an easy task because quite honestly the material is not all that interesting unless of course you are perhaps thinking about building a bird room in your backyard. My target audience is for those who may at some time in the future be interested in building an outdoor bird room but just don’t know how to quite get started. I will include pictures of the various stages of construction and hopefully this series of articles will be of value to those who seek to construct a bird room in their backyard. The reason I decided to build outdoors instead of in my house was because I lacked the space indoors for the kind of room that I was looking to create. Until recently I had my birds all in my unfinished basement where it is notorious for being damp. Aside from the dreary environment the basement is the prowling grounds for my two cats who I believe probably at times would terrorize my canaries when ever they were in that kind of mood. Finally, I got fed up with the condition my birds had to live under and decided to build an outdoor aviary for my birds. My backyard is spacious so space was not a problem. My biggest challenge aside from the enormous amount of work it would take to build the aviary was the amount of money it would cost to construct it. As I proceed through all the steps of construction I will break down all the costs. Thank God for Home Depot. On the following page is a picture of the area prior to construction that I decided to use. Besides being the most convenient space for the aviary it just happened to be ideally located for the benefit of the birds. The area was convenient because it didn’t really waste space in my backyard because it was behind my extended garage that also serves as a tool shed. |
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The area for construction is also ideal because the door will face a southeast direction. The birds will get morning sun and the bird house will be shaded from the sun when it is at it’s hottest because there is a nice canopy of trees above. If you look to the right of the plot on which construction will occur I have some space available so that if in the future I decide that I would like to add an outdoor aviary to extend off the side of the bird house I may do so. The man in the picture is my father who I am grateful for because he was the brain behind the whole thing. Aside from that he is probably stronger than me at 62 than I am at 33. He truly is a machine when it comes to work. He was always here helping me from morning until night fall on the weekends. Thank you Pops. The first step of the project was to stake out the piece of land that I was going to construct on and dig out about 8 inches deep. We got creative after a while on where we were putting the dirt. You would be surprised how much dirt you will have to discard from digging a massive hole. The dimensions of the plot were 13 feet long by 9 feet wide.
It should be noted that you must first check with your town ordinance to see what can be built without a permit. I live in Union and the law states |
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