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Bat House Placement & Installation Guidelines

Location, Location, Location —- Placement and installation of your bat house are almost more important than bat house design.   Please don’t waste your money & time making sure you have a great bat house only to have it installed in a  suboptimal manner that  may never attract bats .  Or worse —  the  bat house  just sits in the garage. 

Basically, from the bats point of view, a bat house should be warm, dry, easy to enter  & leave (no clutter) & safe from predators.  Please follow the guidelines / suggestions below or contact us for  installation  options designed to maximize your occupancy rate.

Custom Bat Houses

Small Bat House Installation

Large Bat House Installation

General Guidelines For All Bat Houses:

· mounted on a pole or the side of a structure

· the bottom of the bat house should be a least 15 ft. above the ground

· an open sunny area with no obstructions or clutter — with at least 6 or more hours of direct sunlight / day

· face a southerly direction.  When two houses are mounted back to back,  a SE — NW orientation is best

Check out our Live BatHouse Cam to see our bat houses in action or visit one of the bat house sites listed on our Client page --

Things To Avoid:

· DO NOT mount your bat house on the trunk of a tree

             however, bat houses can be hung from the limb of a large shade tree, if no open areas are available

· Avoid orienting a lone bat house directly North — it will remain too cool

· Don’t install the house in a shady wooded area. Please trim any tree limbs that grow close to or shade the bat house