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Hey Amsterdam? I'm really bitter about the lack of window screens right now...
I woke up to 18 mosquito bites this morning. Eighteen. ON ONE LEG! I do not understand why a city built on freaking CANALS hasn't developed, like, the latest technology in window screens at this point.
I close the windows at dusk and do a sweep of the room, but it looks like I missed one. One gluttonous and now too-fat-to-fly motherfcuker, that is. *tries not to scratch*
Re: Hey Amsterdam? I'm really bitter about the lack of window screens right now...
Try living in a rainforest with no screens. The casement windows and french doors all open OUT. We were able to screen the aluminum windows, but the pretty ones are a no go.
Judging by the lizard poop on the walls and the mud wasp nests in the rafters, our past tenants didn't seem to mind.
i had a bee stuck between my open window and bedroom curtain over the weekend. i was taking a nap and the sound of it trying to get out woke me up. went out to the balcony and watched it for about 20 minutes. it was stuck for about an hour.
we almost moved into a ground floor apt in a house with a beautifully landscaped backyard. so glad we didn't because the yard attracted a ton of frogs and i just don't think i could deal with those or closed windows in the summer.
i'm bitter, too.
Ahh, I don't understand this! How difficult are freaking screens? I mean other things I can sorts buy like buildings being old so they are not 100% wheelchair accessible yet. Or the streets are narrow, what can you do. But screens, but them in they are cheap.
Foxes wouldn't be eating children if there were screens in windows in and screen doors either, just saying.
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We were looking at an apartment in Modena before we decided to move here, that had pull down screens in all the windows. So amazing.
Ahhh! This was me a few weeks ago. Seemed like all the mosquitoes preferred me to my DH.
Now we have a fan in our room. We set it up so it blows over us while we sleep. It hinders mosquitoes from being able to land on us.
What did NOT work: this contraption we bought at Kruidvat that (silently) buzzes and is supposed to deter mosquitoes from coming in the room. we bought it on a recommendation from a friend. FAIL
Bugs, mosquitoes, spiders, and a homing pigeon. I just love the random crap nature hurls into my bedroom whether I want it or not.
praxis and gamma both sell screens and some cool screen options for all kinds of crazy doors and windows. And those awning stores with the custom awnings also sell custom screens. Now, just price them up.
I'll go take a look. I hate to be a big complainer, I just feel helpless in this. It's not my apartment, so I can't really install anything in the windows and they're GIGANTIC (both wide and long (over 200cm each way) so none of the temporary options that you can buy at Xenos (the stick on netting) fit.
But I'll go see if Praxis has anything . . . I think there's one not too far from me. Thanks!
Apparently they have them here... we rented a huge summer house wth my DH's family last week and they had 3. Yep, 3 screens with a wooden frame you could fit in the window. In a 4 bedroom house. And our room alone had 4 windows.
Still, until then I haven't seen them here.
LOL. Screens are not the answer!
I live in MN, land of the mosquitoes. I have screens on all my windows (that I never open anyway due to A/C) and they are eating me alive. Granted, not in my house, outside when I am gardening but still! I managed to live in France most of my life with no screen on any window. Said windows were wide open on summer nights and I almost never got stung. Just buy one of these plugs against mosquitoes. The kind with a liquid or a little scented cardboard tab. They are very efficient.
And screens only work for flying insects. They do nothing for spiders, centipedes, earwigs, ants.... And it also seems that as soon as you open an exterior door, al the flying insects are coming in, as if it was a payback for having screens everywhere.
Do your windows slide open or tilt open? You could easily make a frame and cover it with netting to fill the open part of a sliding window.
They have screens in Sweden?! No way. We need to go find some when I get back.
Seriously, why has Europe not figured this out yet? It's amazing to me.
I lived in MN on the ground floor with screens, and had orders of magnitude fewer insects in my abode than I do on the third floor in Denmark with no screens? with the exception of ants. Screens do nothing about ants, I will grant you. Still, I wouldn't have flies and bees in my flat if we had screens, so as far as I'm concerned, screens are the answer.
If I had a garden, I'd use bug spray before I did my gardening. In MN, I definitely used a lot more bug spray than I do here, because yeah, there really are more mosquitos there. I still want my screens, though. Two different issues in my mind.
Denmark is far from a rainforest
but everything opens out in our flat, and nothing is pretty. Our windows are pretty awful in every imaginable way, and we want to replace them, but unfortunately all the windows we can buy new also open out. That's just how they work here, as far as I can tell. They open out or they don't open at all. I hate it.
They open IN (like French doors). It's like the whole apartment is conspiring against me, LOL. I did manage to find the one that bit me and kill it (YAY!).
Lorry, why do you always have to rain on my parade? LOL
From my experience of living 25 years in Europe (France and Germany) with no screen, I never had the problems I have here in MN re: bugs in the house. And I am someone who lives with windows open year round, even in MN when it's -40?C outside. I need to air rooms daily.
About the bug spray, I bought some because mosquitoes have been nasty this year. But that sh!t is toxic as hell. I am surprised it is not illegal due to the insane amount of warnings on the bottle. Ever since I bought it, I cover myself as much as possible now so I can avoid using it.