Ballast Nets

Ballast Nets and Commercial Bird Control:

In construction and industrial settings, ballast nets are often used to prevent birds from picking up and dropping ballast pebbles, which can be a major safety hazard. Ballast netting is a cost effective solution to preventing birds damaging your property, as well as being potential hazards to members of the public and the surrounding area in general. The netting is used to cover the ballast pebbles tightly stopping larger birds, such as seagulls and crows, from picking them up and later dropping them whilst in flight. This simple method of protection prevents serious health and safety risks from occurring, such as windows being smashed, cars being damaged, and pedestrians and drivers being injured from falling pebbles.

We offer a range of sizes (50mm, 19mm and 8mm). The nets are made from “flame free” material and are not dipped, which makes them suitable for outdoors unlike dipped nets where the coating washes off.

When looking at your requirements we do consider stone fragments being smaller than the general pebble size. This is an important factor in the selection of net gap size. We have both piercing and non-piercing methods of attachment available, which is subject to circumstance and the building construction.