Any Bird/Pest Control Business Experience?

[Bushi]

I currently run a Sat and Aerial business (Link as per Profile) it was obviously fantastic during digital switchover, but is slowing, lots of lads with ladders carrying out cheap work, probably the same in all trades. I could carrying on building/sustaining this level of work, but it is defiantly a dead end business with TV via internet etc..

So where to go?

I'm thinking being London based Bird proofing protection would be a good add on business using a lot of our skills, commercial contacts and equipment and slowly migrating (poor pun intended) over to full pest control over the next 1-2 years.

Thinking aloud mainly, but any experience, advice or supplementary business ideas happily received.

[amancalledrob]

Not sure if it helps you but I work for an insurer with a fairly large rural premises where the company hires a chap with a raptor (called 'Norman' - the bird, that is) to show up once a fortnight and let the bird off the chain, so to speak. Norman gets fed at the scene so he doesn't kill any pigeons but once the pigeons have seen him a couple of times they don't come back, which is why he only needs to turn up for a few hours twice a month.

Could be something to look into along with bird/pest proofing? Or maybe not. Thought I'd mention it anyway

[Willeh85]

amancalledrob said:

Not sure if it helps you but I work for an insurer with a fairly large rural premises where the company hires a chap with a raptor (called 'Norman' - the bird, that is) to show up once a fortnight and let the bird off the chain, so to speak. Norman gets fed at the scene so he doesn't kill any pigeons but once the pigeons have seen him a couple of times they don't come back, which is why he only needs to turn up for a few hours twice a month.

Could be something to look into along with bird/pest proofing? Or maybe not. Thought I'd mention it anyway

To echo this, I work at a University and they also hire a chap with a bird of prey that turns up couple of times a month. It works well, you still get birds around but nowhere near the problem of the town centre levels.

[Sixpackpert]

Flock Off installer?

ETA link: http://www.flockoff.co.uk/