butler.mark•1mo agoOG Member

Those DIY bird tape strips I put up peeled right off in the heat

I read online about using reflective tape on windows to keep birds from hitting them, so I bought a roll of that 2-inch wide bird tape from the hardware store. I spent a whole Saturday afternoon cutting it into strips and carefully sticking them on my big living room window in Baltimore. Well, we had a stretch of 90 degree weather last week and the tape just started curling up and falling off. Now I have sticky residue all over the glass that took me an hour to clean off with rubbing alcohol. I learned the hard way that the cheap tape isn't meant for direct sunlight and heat. Has anyone found a brand of window decals or markers that actually stays put through a hot summer in this area?

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miles541mo ago

Yeah Collidescape's the move for heat, that stuff doesn't budge.

coleman.jamie21d ago

Yeah exactly, the cheap stuff is useless once it gets hot. I put up the Collidescape film on my own windows last year after going through two different tapes that just melted off. It's been through a whole summer and still stuck on there good.

ward.piper1mo ago

3M makes a bird tape specifically rated for outdoor UV exposure, not the generic hardware store stuff. Did you get the clear window film or the shiny holographic kind that's actually designed for this? Cause Ive seen guys over on a trucking forum swear by the Collidescape film for their windshields and it holds up fine in Texas heat.