In older town-centre homes
Houses and small buildings in Danavaipeta, Innespeta, Aryapuram and around Devi Chowk often have deep ventilators above every window, carved sunshades and narrow light wells between neighbouring buildings. Pigeons from the nearby markets use all of them. Usually several openings need netting together, and closing just one simply moves the birds to the next.
In family houses
In Prakasam Nagar, Alcot Gardens and Tadithota, the problem often starts at a single ventilator above a bathroom window, or on an upstairs balcony used only for drying. Netting that first spot early stops the birds settling.
In newer apartments
Buildings towards Morampudi, Lalacheruvu and Diwancheruvu attract pigeons to empty AC brackets and duct shafts soon after families move in. A net behind the AC unit and across the shaft top deals with most cases.
The materials
| Part | What goes in |
|---|---|
| Net | UV-stabilised HDPE or nylon, 50 mm |
| Colour | Transparent or black |
| Border | Tensioned rope or coated stainless wire |
| Hooks | Stainless steel |
The river air is humid much of the year. Iron hooks rust quickly and stain walls, so every hook we use is stainless.
On the day
We find every place the birds use, measure each opening, clear old nests from the fixing points, fix hooks close together, tension a border round the opening and tie the net at short intervals. The corners get extra ties.
Afterwards
Brush or rinse the net every few weeks and check it after heavy storms.
Good to know
A net doesn’t harm the birds; it closes the opening and they nest elsewhere. Spikes and sprays, by contrast, tend to move birds a short distance or wear off in the rain.
Before we come
Send a photo of each spot birds use on WhatsApp so we bring enough net.
More on pigeon nets, or balcony pigeon nets in Rajahmundry for whole balconies.
Common situations we see
A pair on the bathroom ventilator. It starts with a few twigs on the ledge. Within weeks there are eggs, and the ventilator fan stops turning. A small framed net over the outside of the opening ends it; the fan and the airflow carry on as before.
Droppings below the sunshade. Birds sit on the concrete sunshade above a window and the wall beneath turns white. Netting the gap between the sunshade and the wall takes away the perch.
Birds in the light well. The cooing echoes through every room that faces it. One net across the top of the well, with a hook-off section for cleaning, closes it for the whole house.
How many openings will need netting?
Walk round the outside of the house in the early morning, when pigeons are most active, and note every place a bird sits or flies out from. Most homes have between two and six. Netting all of them in one visit is quicker and cheaper than calling us back for each one.
