Converting a shop unit into a bird house

In recent months, I came to know of another bird nucleus in town. Just established over a year, it is a relatively new area with only 2 bird houses. Both front and back has wide open spaces as roving yards.















As this is not a big exercise, guess it may fit in as another DIY undertaking. These shop houses are 2 1/2 storey. The ground floor has a high ceiling, to its rear is another 1/2 storey like a mezzanine floor.



















So it can be easily converted into 2 nesting floors. Steel beams added to support the new floor areas. The nesting planks too provide additional support to floor boards.



















Behind the roof is an open terrace, another floor extension converts it to a 4-storey bird house. Top floor walls and ceiling were lined with internal layer of styrofoam for heat insulation.
On ground level, the steel roller shutter door was replaced by a double layer brick wall with steel door.



















The equipment room is tappered at one end to maximize internal nesting areas. I don't favor a corner jutting out into the nesting area.



















The roving room extends over the stairway. Stair case roof is removed to provide added entry path. But the wall is retained to control light.



















Workers putting up the ceiling boards of the roving room. The roving room is painted with water based black paint to minimize light reflection to internal areas.















It is pretty straight forward - every bird house is different in some ways, no hard and fast rules & more of exercising common sense. Often swiftlets populated vacant houses/temple attics to begin with. In this instance is at the top of a nearby hospital.