I like that the spikes go all different directions. I placed them side by side and end to end under my bird feeders to reduce the pigeons feeding directly under them, but the birds just push right between them! I was surprised. They may work better if used as designed, on a narrow ledge/roof area.

This "Bird-X Stainless Bird Spikes, 24-Feet" worked absolutely perfectly. I own a business in the city, and a lot of pidgin's would nest on top of my roll down gate. They were a MESS. There was poop and twig's and broken egg's all over the place in front of my shop. I evicted the bird's with a broom then installed the spike strips, and they never came back.

They were incredibly easy to install, only used a small tube of thick adhesive and they stuck just fine. They are strong and sturdy and well made. You can fit them into any space by simply breaking them and making the strips smaller. They are light weight and easy to install yourself, no need to pay someone big buck's to come out and do the same exact thing.

The only 1 issue I did not like was that they are kind of scary looking. I had to install them in a place that is easily visible to my customer's unfortunately, and they would make my shop almost look like a prison with barbed wire. I spray painted them green to match my shop and now they blend in great and look great.

After I installed them I saw them work first hand. The bird's would come and try to land, but they could not land. They could not fold their wing's without being poked, so they just flew away. Now they are gone for good and this shop is MY TURF AGAIN!

Having a South-facing terrace in a large building where someone is undoubtedly feeding the pigeons, I came home from a trip to find a mess. I tried various remedies: an owl (the birds could care less), pinwheels (the pigeons sat next to it), reflective tape that moved (they are fearless). This is the first product that worked as advertised without hurting them. At first, they swooped in to land on the rail to sun themselves, but chose another terrace to defile when they saw the spikes. They are not going to impale themselves: Don't worry!

I don't find it attractive to live with spikes on my terrace, but living with a pile of pigeon droppings is worse. I'll keep you posted if they get used to it and start scratching their backs on the spikes.

We attached the spikes with cable ties--no damage to the terrace rails. (Thanks to the Amazon community for advice!)

If you really want to get rid of birds, this is the real deal!

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.

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.