Review of Bergan Purple Martin House

The instructions are easy to follow, but it should give you enough warning not to assemble this product when it tells you to stick the first birdhouse floor on a pole and then try to snap all the pieces together while trying to wrestle with a pole.

Second, only a few walls really snap together.The rest are tabs that are too short tab wise and do not "click" with the second floor because there are no flanges or barbs.The tabs were flush with the floor, and not sticking out above as I should think one would be.The interior walls are too long lengthwise in that when one has to align the left side of the tabs under the second floor's holes, the tabs on the right side, because of their shortness tab wise, and the longness of the walls, pop out of the holes that one has somehow wedged them into.Same thing happened when I tried aligning the right side.Even the attempts of bending the tabs inward to meet the holes to compensate for the long walls ended in failure.

I had a frustrating five minutes trying to put all the tabs of the walls in, found it impossible, so I just tried to assemble the roof with the same outcome.Only one tab ever held when I tried taking the roof back off, so in the high winds that we are having today, that roof would have blown completely off in about thirty seconds.I would be surprised if it lasted longer than two minutes.So the end product was full of unstable walls that would not "snap" to the floors because of short, flat tabs with no flanges, and a flapping roof.

I found to my dismay, and a little to my relief, that there was only three walls that had the three holes in them, and not four.I was dismayed because I was wanting to count how long it would take before the bird house would collapse from the 15 mph wind blowing today, and relieved that I have yet another excuse to take the bird house back to the Tractor Supply Co.(tm) where I bought it from.Upon closer inspection of the box, it appears that someone else had tried putting it together, got disgruntled, and returned it to the store like I'm going to now.Now I know why those guys at TSC didn't have a display of it up.

Product Description
The Purple Martin house is made of UV resistant plastic.

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