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Systems antipalomas

Protect the historical buildings of the attack of the pigeons

Editorial Interempresas28/11/2012

The pigeons generate dirt, bacteria, corrosion and erosion of the stone, obstruction of canalones, propagation of illnesses and the apparition of other plagues of insects. The Commission of Environingingment of the Group of Cities Heritage of the Humanity ensures that since it set up a specific service of control of pigeons, have been captured 35.000 copies.

Pigeons in the Cathedral of Tudela.

Our historical buildings suffer a progressive deterioration owing to the settlements of Pigeons. The damages that cause them, could finish with them. So much it is so the community of the Cities Heritage of the Humanity already has declared them the war. Gathered the past week to treat, among others, this subject, the thirteen municipalities: Alcalá de Henares, Ávila, Cáceres, Córdoba, Cuenca, Ibiza, Mérida, Salamanca, Saint Cristóbal of The Lagoon, Santiago de Compostela, Segovia, Tarragona and Toledo, agreed to set up a specific service of control of pigeons, and only since, have been captured already 35.000 copies.

Since the pigeons choose the historical buildings by his characteristics of construction and big oquedades to shelter, are these those that more suffer them, although no the only. And it is that his excrements litter the faã§ades and corrode the stone limestone and the metal, as they are composed by chemicals highly corrosivas, with sulphates, sulfitos, nitrates, sour úrico and fosfórico, that wear out gravely the surfaces where pose . Besides, they propagate and they transmit around 40 illnesses, like the ornitosis or the salmonella and, in case it was little, facilitate the apparition of secondary plagues of insects in his nests. In the case of the airports, suppose a danger added for the aeroplanes to the despegar and when landing.

Damages caused by the pigeons in the canalones of the buildings.

Commonly defines them to him like ‘rats with wings' and is not for less since, to attain conserve our buildings, monuments and our own health, have to protect us of them and avoid his effects.

Jacinto Díez, director of Marketing of the company Rentokil, ensures “Work with a wide and effective variety of systems antipalomas no cruentos that they install in function of the characteristics of the zone to protect and of the gravity of the plague. They are systems in which we combine the utilisation of networks, cables tightened, quills and tended electrostatic. But it is very important to realise the performance in front of the first signs of colonisation of the building to be able to break more quickly the querencia of the birds to pose by these zones”.