How do you stop woodpeckers from damaging cedar siding on a house?

To stop the woodpeckers all you have to do is cover the house with a plastic tent, but leave enough space so the paint can dry.

They believe that inside the Cedar Siding there will be insects to eat, like in trees and telephone poles.

woodpeckers peck on cedar siding because they think it is a tree and are looking for bugs that they sally find in trees or in the red headed woodpeckers case think it is a dead tree and a good place...

feed them some poisoned nuts

Well you can use various sparays that smell Like lemon or citrus. Cats do not like he smell of citrus so they stay away from curtains or items that hey normally like to spray or 'mark' on that smell...