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Old 06-14-2007, 12:50 PM   #75
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The cedar siding is nice, but it has drawbacks, primarily because the woodpeckers and the pigmy nuthatches think it's a big dead tree. They drill holes in the walls to make nests, some of them 4 inches in diameter, and pull out the insulation.
My folks had the woodpecker problem. After many years of replacing wood and cursing the little peckers, they stoped staining and painted the house. That did it.
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