Floating Wooden Duck House with Nesting Area

Came well packaged. Very easy to assemble. It is not thick planks of wood but adequate for the task. I don't know how long it will last but with care I think I can get 5 good years from it. I took the precaution of giving it another coat of preservative because I had a tin. I also took someone else's suggestion and added about another inch of polystyrene at the base, sealed in with garden permeable matting, because I had both in my garage anyway. Floats beautifully, looks good. I've put straw and duck food in it to encourage the ducks currently visiting our pond to consider it as a home! We'll see. Thinking of buying another. I also plan to pull it out of the water over winter. You need to clean them out between seasons and disinfect anyway so a good time to let it dry out and put some more preservative on.

I bought this for my mother and it is very easy to assemble. The wood while quite thin seems pretty strong and I have given it a few coats of wood preservative and decking sealer. Just to enhance it's flotation I used the polystyrene packaging held in place with two cans of expanding builders foam so it will not sink!! It is essential to fit a strong tether and anchor it firmly to the bottom of the pond or lake. Hopefully with the occasional coat of wood preservative it will last for may years.If you have any it is worth replacing the small hinge screws at the top with stainless ones.

We had this duck house for 14 months and thought we should give it a look over and see what maintenance it needed, you can see from the photos we had given it 2 coats of Ronseal wood waterproofing and our cat gave it an inspection before being placed on our pond.The other photo is 14 months later it just fell apart. Even the polystyrene was waterlogged, which we hadn’t seen before.The only good thing was we did get to see a duck lay some eggs in it and nest on them. A month later she gave up, they weren’t fertilised unfortunately.

arrived quickly and disappointed with the size, thought it would be bigger.easy to build but the wood on the top of the roof was rather flimsy and my husband broke it so had to go and buy some wood to repair it and matching paint. Looks ok now but be careful during assembly, Bought at half price which I think was the correct value.Looks good on the pond but I feel we will have to paint every year as in the water. my wild ducks have not even bothered with it yet!

This is the second Duck House I have assembled. Although the wood has had preserver applied I gave it 3 more coats of Barrantine, so it should last at least twice as long. I also added extra buoyancy underneath to ensure it stays afloat even as the wood slowly becomes waterlogged. Finally I added extra screws at stress points and fixed down the opening roof flap, because you cannot get to use it when it’s in the middle of the pond and the last one got ripped off by the wind!

This came very quickly and was well packaged. We chose to buy more galvanised screws and treated it with water resistant clear stain, to hopefully extend its life as this was much cheaper than others we had looked at.The instructions aren't great, but it is pretty obvious what goes where. We floated it on Saturday and though no ducks have shown an interest yet - I think we've probably put it out a bit late for this year, I am hoping next year something nests in it. If not, so be it, it still looks lovely on our pond.After about a year it started sinking, we have pulled it in, fitted a netting to the bottom and filled it with empty plastic bottles - it is now floating again, but I wish we had done this at the start.

Sadly this didnt last a year. Started to list and getting lower in the water. I pulled it out and found that the wood had become saturated and was starting to crumble. It lasted a year!Also, the door was too small for my Muscovy Ducks. I cut a new door but they didnt like squeezing in. The wild ducks also found it tight and the only occupants were the local wild Moorhens.I cannot recommend for these reasons.My advice is to keep looking for a product and dont get this one

The media could not be loaded. Mrs Duck moved in within a couple of weeks and 12 ducklings hatched today! They can easily get on & off the platform, so the duck house is a success.It was easy to build and didn’t need anything extra to help it float. I wasn’t keen on the orange colour so I painted it.