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Lets make a birdhouse from cork!

teacher avatar Charalampos Petrou, Tourism/Tour creator Expert

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction.

      1:49

    • 2.

      The benefits of a birdhouse.

      2:12

    • 3.

      The abilities of the cork.

      2:51

    • 4.

      How to cut our pieces of cork.

      2:46

    • 5.

      The base and the door.

      7:29

    • 6.

      The walls.

      5:00

    • 7.

      The roof.

      9:20

    • 8.

      Final corrections.

      12:06

    • 9.

      Conclusion.

      0:56

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About This Class

In this small-in-duration course, we will: examine why having a birdhouse in our home is a good idea, we will learn the fantastic abilities of the cork and we will witness a step-by-step demonstration of how to make our birdhouse.

Having a  birdhouse is an amazing opportunity to help your local ecosystem and to have the opportunity to share you love for nature with your family.

The material we use is cork. One of the most unique materials we can use that is safe, light, easy to work with and in the end 100 ecofriendly.

DIY projects are always a great opportunity to use creatively our free time but when we can do it in combination of also helping our local animals is a great opportunity.

The materials we are going to use are very cheap and accessible like a box cutter, a hot glue gun and corks. All of those materials usually are already available in any house or are very easy to get them.

So if you love doing small projects with your hands, If you like to help your local ecosystem and if you want to actually decorate your balcony with something made by you then join me in this short (45 minutes) course and let's make our own hand made birdhouse made of cork.

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1. Introduction.: Welcome to our online course on building better cows from cork. This course is designed for anyone who is interested in a DIY projects and wants to create a cozy home for our feathered friends. Cork. This an eco-friendly and versatile material then can be easily found at your local craft store online. But in my case, I added three cork from more from bottles. It's also lightweight and weather resistant, making it the perfect choice for a durable bird house. In this course, we will learn step-by-step process of building a bird, cows from Kirk, from selecting the right materials to assemble the final product. I will guide you through each stage of the construction and we will provide you with tips and tricks to help you create and functional unattractive warehouse. But also explain why cork is a fantastic material. You don't need any previous experience or special skills to take this course. Whether you are a very experienced DIY enthusiasts or in beginning, this course is suitable for you. At the end of this course, you will have a beautiful and functional bathhouse that you can be proud of. You will also have the satisfaction of knowing that you have created a cozy home for our small friends. So let's get started and learn how to build a bird house from Cork. And as always, thank you for watching. 2. The benefits of a birdhouse.: Before we start analyzing the amazing abilities of the cork and why we choose Cork for our material. Let's see the benefits of having a bird, cows in our balcony. Having a bed couch in a balcony can provide several benefits, including obviously attracting better. A better house provides a safe and comfortable shelter for beds, which can attract them to our balcony. These can add UT and alive in the outdoor space and allow us to observe and appreciate these fascinated creatures up-close. Also, they can control pests. Many beds feed in E6 as mosquitoes flies, and it can be a security in our balcony. By attracting beds to our balcony, we can help control these pairs naturally without use any car from chemicals. Also, we can promote biodiversity by providing a safe and comfortable habitats for birds. And we can contribute to the health of our local ecosystem. Furthermore, it can provide educational opportunities. Having a bit cows balcony. It can be helpful for small children or even adults like us. You're going to observe them or learn about the different types of birds that visitor balconies, their behavior, habits, and their own political system. Last but not least, bathhouse in changing our mental health. Boards in beds can be calming and meditate experience that they can help reduce the stress and anxiety. And NASA's our overall mental health and well-being. Overall, having a pet cows in our balcony can provide numerous benefits, including attracting birds, controlling pest, promoting biodiversity, providing educational opportunities, and improving our mental health. So now let's go to see the amazing abilities of cork. And as always, thank you for watching. 3. The abilities of the cork.: Cork is a versatile and useful material with the range of abilities that make it useful for many different applications. Here are some of the key abilities of the cork. Cork is light weight is a very lightweight material which makes it easy to work on transport buoyant. That means that the unique circular structure of the cork make it void and with actually idea in using products like piecing, float and live detected, Corp is very elastic, which means that they can be compressed and then intend to their original shape where the pressure is released. This make it useful for creating gaskets. Another seeding material. Water resistant, is naturally water resistant. We make a deal for use in products that they are exposed to moisture sets in wine bottles, stoppers and fluorine insulate. Cork is an excellent insulator, which means that they can help keep heat out of the space. Or the opposite. This make it useful for creating products like insulated boards and wall tiles. And in our case, a house fire system is naturally by resistant, make it safe and useful material for products that are exposed to heat or flanks, such as a fireplace Logs and hotlines. Acoustic cork has an excellent acoustic properties, which means that they can also absorb sound and reduce noise levels. This make it useful for creating products like bulleting parts and wallpaper. Overall, the abilities of cork make it a unique and valuable material for a wide range of applications. In my case, I have a wallet make of pork, from construction industrial products to consumer goods and decorative items. Cork is a very important material. So why would you call this project? Because we wanted to provide our small friends with them best possible conditions. So we choose our material to be warmer, the outside temperature in the winter and the summer, we want to be fire resistant because we don't want to have a fire hazard in our balcony. But also we want our bird house to be a refuge. So it's going to offer a fantastic acoustic for us, more friends. And last but not least, we choose a material that is going to be lightweight in order to place in the balconies and even waterproof and buoyant for all kinds of conditions. And as always, thank you for watching. 4. How to cut our pieces of cork.: Okay, We talk about why cork is an ideal material. Now I'm going to show you how we are going to divide them material and how we're going to cut the cord into our three main pieces that we need. So obviously, if you are under 18 years old and live and add that to do it. If you're Ananda, be very, very careful because we are going to use various tones like a backscatter. We take a piece of cork. We can take out from the bottle after we use it. When we want to do is to separate the three parts that we're going to cut it like that. We want the piece that this circular like this. We're going to cut exactly the same from the other side. We're going to have two pieces like this that we're going to use for a roof and the walls and flat piece that we took from the middle that we are going to use as the foundation to make the base of our house on the foundation of the walls. So our house is going to consist From the base is going to be 12th flat pieces. This is going to be more or less, if you see it as a space dislike a polymer. So this idea for the small beds. Now I'm going to show you how we're going to go lower base and then we're going to continue with the walls and the roof. And obviously the space that we're going to use to create the entrance. And as always, thank you for watching. 5. The base and the door.: Again, the same, but we said before with the box cutter we're going to use now for the silicone done. Obviously, only if you are an adult, you are going to use. The silicone band is very hot. We'd have to be very careful. What we're going to do is to simply newer material together is very simple. We just apply a tiny bit of silicon in the flat pieces and it just holds them together. So simple is such a light material that doesn't need any power. We already explained before. Y Corp is a fantastic material to do DIY fractions. Now, again, then That's it. So simple. So we have four paid 12. I read the glue them before to save time. Now we're going to glue them together. Now we're going to do first. If you put it down like that. Igloo a little bit of my finger. So perfect. And now we are going to the nest. For now, we have the base for our project. This is the base of our that house. As you see, it's super light. The pieces are very well structured together. We're going to put it like that. Obviously. Now I'm doing everything in a hurry in order to show you how to do it. You have to do it with more patients. As I said before, we're also going to create our door. Door is going to be here. So we glue to glue this here. So what we did is that we left a space of two pieces for our little friends. We can also do exactly the same but without in space in the back wall here. Shear that. Obviously you don't have to put on a phone. You can put more pieces and you can make it even bigger or even smaller. It depends on the kind of beds you have in your area. Me, as I said before, I have many Robbins in the area. So actually my target is more beds in the shifter. I would like to create one, double the size. So we continue one roof more. This is going to be the size. There to be space here. For our little friends. Create this. Only. The gap should not be very, very, very big. So we're going to close it here where the door is only going to go to pieces. I'm going to show you now what I mean. Here. We are going to close it. So shear we need to put silicon from both sides. First we adjust this side than this. You can see how easy it is to work. The silicon. We do the same here but without leaving any gaps. So they're going to use for obviously, there is not any problem if you leave gaps. But I'm going to show you later how we are going to fill our gaps. We are going to create isolation materials. We just want the best possible condition for our little friends. So yes, the shear. And the moment we have at the moment is the base for a bit sloppy here, but we're going to collect everything. Don't worry, if it looks like that. What you want is in this point to have a construction like this. Very, very light bottom and opening. This should be big enough, but not that big. And the backbone, it has some gaps. We're going to collect them later. Now. Let's go to see how are going to create the other ones and the roof variation, we are going to have our own amazing bird house. And as always, thank you for watching. 6. The walls.: So I already made one world in order to win some time. Now we're going to continue with the other world. You see, Can nice it looks with a circular part from the outside. So the world is very, very easy. I have separated here and my pieces into 12, 12, 12 with took a piece that we like and choose the ones, e.g. this one has a lady. So I choose this space. First. We are going to put very carefully Samsung, they called in the outside layer and one in the proton's going to ticket here. Like that. It's so easy. Now we continue. Now it only needs in the bottom. So we put like that. And we continue. As you can see, I'm using a surface. Another, destroying my desk. You can use a piece of paper and Darwin, but be careful with the silicon gun, as it is very hard to use a material that is not going to affect it by the hit. Continue. As I said in the previous part, if you want, you can make it much, much bigger. I think this is the minimum of the size. And now it's going to look like that. And to create a layer above, we just put in the flat area here. Silicone. Let's start with a base here, because the site's always need more. We're going to put and Shia and the one side and in the bottom. So don't worry if it is missing the beginning. We're going to clean them later. So here, one lift the run. They also need to put in the sides. Share that this is not thick here. We need to add this again. If you place a piece, don't put it again, clean it. And then now I'm going to put another piece. Perfect. Perfect, perfect. So we're going to have a piece like this. This is entrants inside the walls. We're going to decorate it later and we're going to make some reinforcements to make it more steady. But now it's just one. Show you the main construction. That is, this is very, very simple, as you see, very simple materials. We did very fast. Now we're going to make the roof. 7. The roof.: So to save some time, I made here half of the roof. There's going to be like this arrow. And now I'm going to show you how we're going to do it. We take 12 pieces. We place them upside down. We put them together in order to decouple. Then we are going to use those flood pieces. I'm going to take one. We're going to cut it in the middle. Column is going to repeat, to be very, very careful, when you handle your book Scatter. Have to do everything, really relax. We're not in a hurry. I could have got everything, but I wanted to demonstrate, you know, as you see, we take the species and we can then in three, we take a flood PBIS. We got it in three. We're going to apply. Let's now take a fish. We usually like to connect them together. Mia uses silicone gun, but you can use normal loop. We're going to do the same. This fixed basis. Say six pieces. But and when RPC says dry, we're going to glue them together. So I'm going to blow those. 66. That gives them some time to dry clay, silicone or blue, or whatever other materials you prefer to use. In one side. You saintly way. You'll leave this to dry. We are going to put a flat piece here and a flat piece here. Let's do it. Now you see we call a gap here. We can take a small piece. We can use it for good actions, making that case. So we're going to have two pieces exactly like this two pieces. I'm going to be showing that point. We would like our construction more or less to look like. That is not finished. Now, we have two choices here. Either we glue or roof to our construction, but that limit our ability, clean it later. So we all nicknamed it through the entrance and with water. So we hope that we're going to have small friends in the beginning enter into the house. Or big clue, the roof like this. We can remove it and put it again in order to give it more time. It depends if you want to have it in the base, I will suggest you if you want to have it in the ground, is fine to remove it. If you want to get unfortunately, we have to stick the roof together. How are we going to take that off? We're going to take secular pieces. I'm going to put them in the top and we're going to glue them all together. This creates a nice waterproof surface. They do it. How we're going to do it. They're going to hold the roof like that. Now, we had no connection with point in the talk. We have to wait. Elizabeth. Now, take a sacred her pieces. We add them in. After the end of this phase, should look like this. Now, we're going into our final video where we're going to do our final corrections. And we're going to make it look a little bit more function because now, but obviously it needs some corrections because of the structure. Now let's do the declaration. So thank you for watching. 8. Final corrections.: So now we are going to do that. We're going to make our house a little bit nicer. This is what we want to make better. Here. If you can see, I've got some triangles. It took a flat piece like that. Then I got some triangles like that. We're going to use this thesis that we got it. You're going to, okay, obviously, it depends on the house to fix these gaps that we have here. So what we're going to do first is to put a triangle here in the top to cover this space here. And then we're going to put some other here and we're going to cover it. So I need to tell me that. Let's see, which appears when we need this like this. I'm going to put it in the tub. Um, as you can see, it fits perfectly. And we said, Corp is flexible. If you need to move something, you can always move it. Now, we are going to cover this coordinate here with this triangle. Yes. Fits perfectly. Don't worry for the excess glue or silicones are you going to use? We're going to show you now bowed to cover it. Now we're going to put another triangle here. That case, it has to be smaller. Because this says we don't have a lot of space. We spent months. We can always go heck, did not perfect like that, but there are some gaps. So I'm going to take a thin piece of the flood areas. Let's see. The first two months. The person but toys. Well, it's fine. But recently the lighter the load yet. So what we're going to do is we're going to make this flat areas front into circular. So we are going to do here silicone. Now very carefully. We add circular pieces. Here's your seat. Put a lot of purple to host some birds. This would fail. So now our endurance looks at it and make this match better. With the same way. We're going to cover the circular part, the host we have here. But here we don't have to be so precise and is not practical anymore. So what about the emails? They take these pieces here. Perfect. Another glue them and just put them there to see if it fits. So not to be steady, but we got three of them are circular path. And now we're going to glue it. Shear here and here. Those are the pieces that Sydney bone. He said. This is here. This piece here. Perfect. So now I'm going to loop like that. Obviously now we just clean the excess of the silicon rehab. And more or less we finished. Now, again, we can do some declarations. If you want. You can take a small cork like that. This just this leg here. And you can pretend that he said it similarly. So with that, the piece like that and we can adjust it here and we can contain it is a chimney as I'm going to put it in the wall and don't have to fix the bug. But I only go into both triangles here and here. But I'm not going to make Francais so cooler, so fast. Going to share another area. So they say, yes, Perfect, Perfect. I need a drink. So let's yeah. And in that comment, this and this, I'm perfect. So now you have it totally made of gold. And the glue material, you are going to choose. Bet How's that? There's going to be what the resistance is, super, super light emitted with a way. So I can always lift up and clean inside, but you can glue the roof. I'm put the hunger. I cannot wait to see your projects down. And as always, thanks for watching. 9. Conclusion.: Congratulations on completing this online course of how to create a bird house made. Of course. I hope that you found this course to be funny, creative, honest. And also I hope that I'm going to inspire you continue doing DIY projects from things of course, obviously you can continue doing but houses, but I hope I create this part to that motivate you creating more projects by building this bird house. It was a fun and rewarding activity. I also want you to remember that we also are helping our local environment by creating balance in nature, by supporting our local ecosystem. I hope that the sparkle, your creativity. Thank you for joining me in this journey. And as always, thank you for watching.