Peak Bat Season is nearly over, book your surveys now

Back in May we showed you just how many bats can live under roof tiles. Now it's time to remind you about bat surveys, and in particular the peak season for bats and how it affects such surveys.

If you need to carry out a bat survey on a property then they can be done at any time of year during the day by a specialist surveying company. However, if a further activity survey is required it can only be carried out during peak season. That season ends on August 31.

So, if you know, or suspect such an additional survey will be required, you need to book it this week in order to have a chance of getting it carried out. The alternative? Potentially months of delay until the peak season begins again.

Source: Middlemarch Environmental

How many bats can live under roof tiles? Lots!

Anyone reading this ever had to have a bat removed from their roof? Even if you did, I bet there was only one. But if you're unlucky a colony of bats may have decided your roof is a perfect nesting ground, with the result potentially being the removal of all your roof tiles.

The video above is pretty unbelievable purely for the number of bats that keep appearing as each roof tile is lifted. Apparently a survey was done on the building, but no bats were discovered. So it came as a complete surprise to find hundreds of them.

Source: Forth Demolition