Bird-X Original Stainless Steel Bird Spikes, 6-inch Regular Wide Spikes Since 1964, Bird Spikes for Pigeons and Other Small Birds, Easy to Install, Contains 2 ft. Strips, Cover 24 Linear Feet Area

The item was installed under my deck where birds were nesting and making a mess.Installing them was pretty straightforward. I used a 90 degree attachment on my drill/drive due to space constraints.The are extremely effective in keeping birds from nesting, and making messes!!

If you happen to only need 12 feet, or just over 24 feet, well... you probably want to look at different offerings than this as you're buying in a pretty big increment with this 24-foot (in two foot increments) choice. There seem to be many choices in the 2, 6, 12 and 14 feet ranges. If you're buying in bulk however, this is your huckleberry.I give 5-Stars because 1) It works for a variety of bird sizes, 2) Is the cheapest I can find in practical amounts, and 3) There is nothing I can think of that I really dislike about it.If you need more than 2 to 6 feet of this stuff, you're going to start caring about how much it costs.The Amazon pic is awful. You don't see the plastic center-spike (very important so little birds don't just land in the middle mocking you). I've uploaded a couple of pics to help you better see what these spikes look like.Also, beware of super-cheap polycarbonate spikes. Besides being ugly (and oddly enough more expensive in most cases than stainless) if a worker swings a tool across them, they are toast and snap off. Not so with stainless.When you install this stuff, just make sure you have a clean surface (dust is bad - at least wipe the wood/stone down with a rag), squirt some adhesive down, and squeeze it into place. You're done.......Notes:......*Does NOT come with adhesive but any good "outdoor adhesive" bought here on amazon or at your local box store will suffice......*You don't need to go nuts with the adhesive... just a few dobs here and there......*If you're putting it up in a "heavy doo-doo area" bring a strong spatula to make the job much easier ;-)Lastly, watch your shipping costs when you buy. As of this writing (7/28/11) Amazon sells these spikes and a few others you might choose from so that's probably where you want to buy from instead of outside choices. (For most of you Amazon-stocked items probably means free shipping of one kind or another.) Otherwise the shipping really influences your total price-per-foot cost.Other points:1) This works for birds large and small2) It's among the cheapest price-per-foot I can find, especially with Amazon Prime shipping3) Can glue or nail (although nailing through those holes might be a pain)4) 5.5 inches wide x 4.5" high (not 6" wide as claimed in description)5) Can easily snap/break the plastic base into desired lengths (comes in 2 foot sections) - Note that some of the other cheaper options you're looking at have all-metal bases that are harder to work with6) If you're trying to decide between spikes and some other deterrent like plastic owls and spray... just buy the spikes and save yourself some time. Those other deterrents are barely more than gimmicks.-------------------Update (5/24/2012): Recently rec'd a comment on this review that someone rec'd a product that looked a little different from the pic I uploaded, but seemed to be a legit product otherwise. I don't know if this is a good thing or bad, but be aware they might have redesigned the product since I bought it last.

These work pretty good but the tiny little birds just go between the spikes and go ahead and build a nest. So I had to get Gutter Guard and use that for a bird screen in some places.

These strings of spikes are incredibly easy to install! I need to purchase more because the dog-on "tree rats" (squirrels) find a way over them if I have a BBQ near the fence. And recently found a corner to slip under the fence. If placed on a tree put two together and a few inches apart add more!!! Such destructive critters.

We had a woodpecker assaulting the side of our house, directly underneath our eaves. Unfortunately it took me a long time to investigate what the damage might be - the eaves are too deep to access from the roof, and the house is three stories high there so I needed to find a much taller ladder (I also bought climbing gear to rope in).I wished I'd investigated sooner! There were big holes in the house and one of them went all the way down to the plywood (all of which I filled with wood putty - it took much more than I'd anticipated). Then I attached two rows of the bird spikes under the eaves, and also in places where the woodpecker rested between assaults.The directions all seem to say that they are glued on. I found this difficult since I was attaching them to a vertical surface. Instead I used a staple gun. There are small tabs that stick outwards from the plastic base. It's pretty straightforward to get a staple gun right on top of this tab and fix it to the wall (but I was glad I was roped in during the process, it took both hands to do this).That side of my house doesn't get much weather so stapling is sufficient. If there was more wind there I'm not sure they'd stay up. There are small holes in the base where you may be able to nail the strip up, but these are hard to reach with the spikes sticking out.Our woodpecker hasn't come back since we put the spikes up; instead it moved one house North to my neighbor's. Here's their solution: they had some of those motion-activated spiders left over from Halloween, and they hung them under the eaves where the bird was. Every time the bird shows up a spider drops down and 'scares' it away. It seems to work - and it was easier than putting the spikes up.

We have a racoon problem in the middle of Brooklyn, NYC. The racoons live behind the garage and come out at night to feast on our grapes, which we grow every year. The trellis is attached to the garage using metal pipes so they are able to walk from the garage roof to get to the grapes. My dad wanted to catch and release because we are not allowed to kill them. But instead, I found these on Amazon. We attached them to the pipes and on the garage roof. The spikes are sharp but not to the point of cutting a paw. My dad attached the ones to the steel pipe using metal wire instead of the glue but we did use the Gorilla Glue to attach them to the garage roof. So far so good. Last night I stayed up and was able to see that there are 5! yes 5 racoons. They were on the garage roof but could not get across the pipe to the grapes. Success!! I am ordering more to keep on hand. Excellent product. These must be strategically placed in order not to leave any room for the animals to step over or across.