Birds keep building nests and perching on my light fixtures and knob and tube electric. How can I repel them?

It depends on the building codes where you live. Where are you going to put the lamps in the kitchen and bath room?

Sure, but table lamps are not popular in bathrooms. As a result, you house is an "odd-ball construction" meaning it is worth less than one that has ceiling pots for entrance way, bathroom, bedrooms,hallways, stairwells, kitchens, dining rooms. Having the pots already in the ceiling cut into the drywall and wired up and inspected.

Living rooms usually do not have a ceiling light mainly because of the light entering the large window during the day and have corner lamps or lamps on furniture like stereos or coffee tables. The roughed in wiring in a stick house is inspected by the city inspector all in one go. It has to be signed off by a certified ticketed licensed electrician.

The inspector will demand it. Otherwise you can not live in the home...or ever sell it.

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