Living in Akkayyapalem
Akkayyapalem is densely built, with older apartment buildings and houses on busy streets. Pigeons find shelter in light wells, ducts and on ledges.
Pigeon nets, light-well and shaft nets and balcony safety nets are the most useful fittings here.
Many families here have lived in the same building for years, and older blocks have steel grills that have rusted in the coastal air. Replacing them with SS 316 cable grills, netting the ducts and adding a drying rack can all be done in one visit. Flats above shops on the market streets see the most pigeons, so their balconies are usually netted first.