Published September 8, 2011 | 
Deer control has been an on-going problem in many cities in Texas. Every year there is much discussion on how to get rid of the thousands of deer in areas such as Lake way, Rolling wood, etc.
Now, BirdGard has come up with a great solution for those cute but destructive deer. Deer Shield Pro uses digital recordings of aggressive, hostile and territorial deer sounds, broad-casted through high fidelity weather-resistant speakers to trigger a primal fear and flee response and it is very effective in controlling deer populations. It has a built-in motion sensor, so it only turns on when the deer are present. The motion sensor can detect deer up to 75 feet away. The detachable high fidelity weather-resistant speakers can cover up the 1.5 areas. Sounds and timers are fully adjustable. The digital chip has 8 different sounds. It runs off A/c or D/C voltage and comes with optional solar panels and marine batteries.
The Deer Shield Pro is ideal for: residential yards, commercial landscaping, grape and blueberry orchards, small farms and airfields. We like this product and plan to install them for our customers from Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, Waco and Fort Worth. This product can also be purchased from us if you would like to install yourself.
Published August 31, 2011 | 
Town Lake Construction, LLC the leading commercial pest control company serving all of Texas including Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Galveston, Corpus Christy and all smaller municipalities has recently included a full service division for the control of birds and other wildlife in the grape & wine industry. We have been attending regional field days in Texas and showing the attendees all their bird abatement options, such as: sound systems, visual deterrents, bird control netting and fogging supplies. We offer in house design, install all of our products and offer warranties.
Along with getting our feet wet in the wine and grape growing industry, we have been busy this year designing, building and installing bat houses for insect control. Due to the drought we have been having in Texas, this year has been especially busy in the snake department. Among the snake calls we have taken this year, other than catching and relocating single snakes, we have found ourselves incorporating snake control with the use of traps and electric snake fences. Visit our website for more information at www.batspecialist.com
Posted in Cave Notes | 
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Town Lake Construction in Austin, TX, is a preferred contractor that has installed bird control products on many of the buildings on a local university campus. The extensive campus is comprised of many buildings requiring ongoing maintenance. “We won several bids for work in the 1990s. The university was impressed with our work and we have been a preferred contractor for more than 10 years now,” explains owner Tom Regner. One of the industrial buildings on campus houses a chilling station. Large, open passages allowed pigeons and grackles to roost and breed inside the building. The amount of debris left by the birds had become so overwhelming that employees refused to enter the building. Bird Barrier’s Stealth-Net was an obvious solution, as it can completely exclude birds from a structure. Installing zippers in the netting maintained access to the interior for university workers. “The biggest challenge with this project was the cleanup,” Regner explains “Using Dissolve-it, two Town Lake employees spent two days cleaning the area prior to installing the Stealth-Net. The installation process took two additional days.” Of course, anyone who has ever visited Austin is familiar with the large bat population. Regner and his team chose to use 3/4-in. black Stealth-Net to ensure that neither birds nor bats could gain access to the building through those passageways. Taking Netting to new heights several months later, Town Lake was called in again to address another bird problem. This time, the affected building was an academic center. Concrete decorative latticework on the exterior of the building’s windows had become a favorite roosting spot for pigeons. The dilemma extended beyond the aesthetic. A bird mite infestation was the more serious issue. An entire floor of the building had to be closed off to deal with the situation. Once the area had been sterilized and the windows removed and cleaned, the installation of Stealth-Net on the building’s exterior began. Operating on a campus with 55,000 students was difficult. The latticework was 54 ft. off the ground. Working at that height required a lift for access. “Moving the lift around the building among the heavy foot traffic was the most complicated part of this job,” describes Regner. Ultimately, the installation took three men five days to complete. However, because of the quality of both Town Lake Construction’s work and Bird Barrier products, they will likely remain a preferred contractor for this college in perpetuity.
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- It’s humane: Stealth-Net provides a harmless and impenetrable barrier against all pest birds. Stealth-Net can completely exclude birds from structures by sealing off openings like archways and other unenclosed areas. Using stand-off brackets and weighted cable, Stealth-Net can even protect individual HVAC units.
- It’s versatile: Zippers can be inserted into Stealth-Net to create access points for maintenance, such as changing light bulbs. And by using support poles, it can be configured to protect just about any structure.
Posted in Cave Notes | bird control, bird debris, bird droppings, grackles, pest birds, pigeons, roosting pigeonsPublished June 10, 2010 | 
We perform quite a bit of research before our company, Town Lake Construction LLC endorses a new odor control product or procedure. New methods to combat odor problems come on to the market daily. We try quite a few of them, most of which do not live up to their claims; one of these products being deodorizers. Town Lake Construction flatly refuses to use any kind of deodorant as a means to remove odor from a commercial building, because most deodorants morph the smell of bat guano or bird dropping into something that, in most cases, are intolerable to building occupants. Getting rid of smells, not simply masking them, is our goal at this company. Whether the smell comes from a dead raccoon enclosed in a wall or roosting pigeons on a privacy balcony, we have the equipment and the odor abatement knowledge to tackle the source of any odor problem. Quite frankly, we have learned what we know through trial and error. When I first entered the pest control business, in Austin, TX, some 20 years ago, there was little in verifiable methods for the lasting control of odor. Twenty years and 4000 smell good products later, we have finally determined the good from the bad in treating unwanted smells. Our clients are typically from large Universities, corporations and municipalities. These institutions usually try to treat odor problems “in house” so by the time they give us a call, asking for assistance, the existing conditions have escalated out of control. Imagine 10 years worth of bird carcasses stacked up in a hot electrical vault, or 50 years of accumulated bat guano in a county court house attic. Dealing with this type of odor abatement project is all in a days work for us. Our staff has the verifiable training, certifications and the experience to do what it takes to make your odor problem disappear.
Tom Regner
Town Lake Construction LLC
Published June 9, 2010 | 
06/08/10
Dear Dan,
In response to your email regarding the closing of your clean room. Let me get this straight, you run the maintenance division of a large corporation in Austin, TX and you have found out that your clean room is overrun with rats and mice. At first, it started with reports of rat droppings. You called your “under contract pest control company” and told them you might have a rodent issue. They came out three days later to perform a brief inspection, check their outside bait stations and set a few traps. Everyone was happy, including your now increasing population of commensal friends, the rodents, but every day, new reports of rodent sightings come into your office. The pest control company in which you selected was supposed to get rid of these rodent situation. You have seen them advertise on television and you thought they were reputable because their company name starts with ABC and they are a local Texas company. Well you ask, “what did I do wrong?” Don’t feel too bad, this is typical for the industry. The difference between Town Lake Construction, LLC’s approach to your rodent problem and current pest control company you have under contract is the difference between happy clients and unhappy ones. First, you hired them for their low bid approach to general pest issues, not for a more dynamic, problem oriented companies, comprehensive approach. Unfortunately, getting what you paid for does nothing to solve an over population of rats and mice living in your building. For example, we never utilize bait station on the outside of a building until all foundation openings are closed. I cannot tell you how many sites I have been to like yours with obvious rodent entry/exit points directly adjacent to the bait stations. Secondly, T.L.C. does not have our crew on pest control routes, unlike your first in the phone book “critter ridder”; we stay with your building until we are satisfied that every possible opening has been sealed and the problem has been solved. This approach takes time. We do not have to spray for roaches at noon, kill ants at 2 PM and then try to squeeze you in to deal with hundreds of rodents crawling between the floors of your building. You should never let a route oriented pest control company near a problem like you have described. Hiring a company that won’t cut corners and has building engineering experience like Town Lake Construction, LLC is the right approach. Our staff has the verifiable training, certifications and the experience to do what it takes to make your rodent problem disappear. More on this later ………
Tom Regner
Town Lake Construction LLC
Published February 6, 2010 | 
When the average person goes onto the internet to find a pest control company to solve their bird or bat problems, what they will find is that every pest control company with a website is the best, the largest, the most experienced and all of the rest of the industry is hugging their coat-tails trying to catch up. Bologna! After all, there can only be one pest control company that is the best, the largest and the most experienced, and that company just so happens to be my company, Town Lake Construction. O.K., you see what I am driving at?
We specialize in high-rise pest control, via bird and bat proofing of buildings, so we gain a tremendous amount of experience in these specific fields. We do not kill ants, trap rats or spray lawns. Day-in and day-out we service high-rise building, municipal buildings and commercial facilities. The same men that the other companies send to your job may have been trapping possums at 10 A.M., spraying for bugs at 2 P.M. and be ready to tackle your bird problem at 4 P.M. I shudder to think about it. Even with the constant exposure to our specific line of pest control, we go through many learning curves daily. When you hire a pest control company to set up a bird-control system 300 feet in the air, the last thing a business owner needs are technicians on their building, that have little, or no experience, which is very common in this industry. We don’t spray to kill bugs, etc. even though we are licensed to do these things. If we are called to do it, we refer them to a pest control company that we like, which may I tell you is few and far between. You may ask why we don’t take on this extra work, after all, everyone else that is the biggest, the largest and the best does it. The answer is, if we don’t have the experience, the “know how”, and the capacity to be the best at it, or pretty close to the best, we don’t want any part of it at all.
–Tom Regner
Published February 4, 2010 | 
The hardest part of anything for me is at the beginning. Ideas come easy. Making something solid and useful from my ideas is something entirely different. You know, creating something from what’s between your ears. It sounded like a good idea; “yeah, let’s have a Blog on the new website”. Now sitting in front of my computer, I am at one of those moments…In the beginning, forming this Blog out of thin air and transforming it into what you see before you. Bear with me for a few more sentences while I try to transform some idea to write about. O.K., I’ve got one, let’s try to second guess what goes on in the mind of a, domesticated from the wild, bird. Not ready for it, me neither. Some other time perhaps, when I have had my next encounter with Albert Einstein disguised as a Grackle. Maybe I could talk about when I first starting excluding bats from buildings. I could theoretically do this but and in reality, the events which led up to my first “bat encounter” are much too entertaining and in depth for me to go into at this hour. Now I am at the moment of truth, what do I say now? “I like this industry!” Where can you go repelling off buildings and get paid for it? Some of the places I have had access to, range from the infamous book depository building in Dealey Plaza, The George Bush Governors Mansions, Darrel Royal Stadiums to movie sets and chance encounters with movie stars. I can’t remember how many times I have been interviewed for T.V. and the newspapers. You get the idea; we work in pretty cool places and meet a lot of interesting people. I never thought of the prestige we would gain when I first came up with this concept, way back in”93”. Another thing I really like about my business is the “specialist” aspect of our company. Most of my customers, have tried many ordinary pest control companies, to help them with their (insert animal) problem before I get the first call to do my “thing”. Desperation leads to some pretty accommodating circumstances for my Company, Town Lake Construction, which is now an LLC, formed to protect me from loosing my house. But I digress… so, the desperate conditions we come in to make us look like saviors on chariots, chariots in the form of pick up trucks with ladder racks. The scenario usually plays out like this: Bats are trapped in a building and are now swooping down on the accounting department, which incidentally really likes me now and will pay me in record time for our heroics, after we are finished, of course. After all, they are accountants. I like being “that guy’ who is a true specialist. Re-inventing the wheel and building a better mouse trap is an everyday occurrence for us. At least once an hour, I come up with some sort of contraption or new idea that will revolutionize the industry.
These are the topics which I can write about. So let me tell you about them one at a time…
– Tom Regner
