British Bird Control

07/02/2026

Another nice balcony net and clean down completed by John and Barney Scanlon… in this case the customer had been overseas for a while and pigeons had taken up residence and made a right old mess… not any more!

08/08/2025

Genting Casino Pigeon Netting Complete

PestFix sister company British Bird Control technicians John and Barney Scanlon have just completed this challenging roof netting job at the Genting Casino in Southend.

Pigeons love to roost and nest under plant at rooftop level, as it provides them with the direct head cover they need, and when they do they create very bad fouling issues.

This job was not without its challenges, quoted initially off plans at the tender stage and as it very often the case, requiring a significant re-assessment on survey when the new (larger than planned) roof and plant was on.
With one side open to the sea and high plant housings making a roof mount solution impractical, it required our surveyors and team to think outside the box to use existing railings and barriers in conjunction with unistruts to lift the net up high enough to allow room to work underneath, while still having enough strength to withstand the elements faced on a coastal installation.
The works required some 400 metres of 2mm seven strand stainless steel wire to hold the netting, kept tight and in place through the use of 40x m6 barrel strainers in stainless steel, with copper ferrules in use for termination of the wires.
To complete the bespoke holding structure for the netting we also needed some 1500 angle (‘L) brackets plus 40x 0-20mm corner fixing roof mounts. All from PestFix of course.
Finally the team was able to meticulously secure the50mm black pigeon nets to the wires, segment by segment, through the use of over 20,000 SR8 grade 304 c-ring hog ring staples. To protect the area we needed 10x 10mx10m black pigeon nets and 4x 5mx10m nets.
This still left some lower areas unprotected, which we solved through the use of installing panels of 12-gauge hot dipped galvanised steel weldmesh in 50mm (2in) mesh size, the same as pigeon netting. This is the same mesh we use for most of our solar panel pigeon proofing (https://britishbirdcontrol.co.uk/service/solar-panel-pigeon-proofing/ ) works.

20/04/2025

Another balcony netting job successfully completed by John and Barney Scanlon for British Bird Control. With this one we needed to lift the net at balustrade level using unistruts so that the residents can still enjoy the balcony … and there was also some meshing required to proof the gaps between balconies….

10/04/2025

Flat, open rooftops are much loved by many bird species including pigeons and seagulls. Here we’ve netted off using 50mm pigeon netting with a tent-like structure, raising the net with stanchions into rubber feet and bringing the 2mm wires up from outside the perimeter.

10/04/2025

Netting off open balconies like this is a bit more challenging than on enclosed balconies as there’s nothing to attach the upper wire that holds the netting to. We have to lift the net up at the balustrade corners using unistruts and then feed the wire from the top of them to the rear wall either side, so that customers can continue to stand out on the balcony and enjoy the view and open air, while stopping pigeons and their fouling from spoling it.

01/07/2024

Some pictures of solar proofing works going onto newly installed panels at Hellesden Hospital in Norfolk. John and Barney Scanlon (both CSCS accredited) are our technicians on this project.

26/05/2024

We are now where possible using these specially designed solar clips in our solar panel proofing works, which add lots of additional security to what was already the most robust solution on the market. We have 10 full time solar panel proofing teams, cover most of England and Wales, and offer a ten year guarantee....

13/03/2024

13/03/2024

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From start to completion we have been well informed about the procedure for installing this cag ...

05/12/2023

This lizard was caught on camera apparently strumming a leaf to its heart's content. The forest dragon lizard was spotted in the unusual pose by professional photographer Aditya Permana in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

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