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Tiny bugs getting thru screen
wrote in message news Whenever I leave the window open with the screen, tiny gnats, or whatever they are called, go right thru the screen, and drive me nuts, Right now there are about 100 of them swarming around me. I have the smallest standard window screen I could find. This is the plastic type. I even put duct tape all the way around the screen frame to the window frame, so none of them can sneak in around any gaps. There are no holes in the screen. How can I stop this? I can not find any screen with smaller holes. Thanks Mark close the window. |
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"Charles Spitzer" wrote in message ... wrote in message news Whenever I leave the window open with the screen, tiny gnats, or whatever they are called, go right thru the screen, and drive me nuts, Right now there are about 100 of them swarming around me. I have the smallest standard window screen I could find. This is the plastic type. I even put duct tape all the way around the screen frame to the window frame, so none of them can sneak in around any gaps. There are no holes in the screen. How can I stop this? I can not find any screen with smaller holes. Thanks Mark close the window. turn on a/c (if you have it), grab shop vac, and suck the little buggers out of the air. In daylight, they will gather around a window, and at night, around lights. aem sends.... |
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Abe wrote:
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:53:29 -0500, wrote: Whenever I leave the window open with the screen, tiny gnats, or whatever they are called, go right thru the screen, and drive me nuts, Right now there are about 100 of them swarming around me. I have the smallest standard window screen I could find. This is the plastic type. I even put duct tape all the way around the screen frame to the window frame, so none of them can sneak in around any gaps. There are no holes in the screen. How can I stop this? I can not find any screen with smaller holes. Thanks Mark -------------------------------- Look in the yellow pages under windows or screens, call a couple of places and see if they sell a smaller mesh screen. Spray the screen with a bug repellant. Works for me. The "no-see-im's" won't go near it. |
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"Chuck B." writes:
Spray the screen with a bug repellant. Works for me. The "no-see-im's" won't go near it. If you don't like the stink/chemicals, I would suggest a couple things: 1: decrease the mesh size of your existing screens by spraying with paint/shellac/etc. Multiple light coats should decrease the screen size without clogging the holes. Shellac has an advantage of being easilly removable if you don't like the results. You can likely use a "pump" style hair spray bottle if you don't have a sprayer. (I've heard some hair sprays *are* thinned shellac.) Look for one containing denature alcohol in the ingredients. 2: introduce a positive pressure inside the house that the bugs will have to fight to get through the screen. the trick here is that that source will need to be filtered. Box fan with a furnace screen over the intake should work. good luck. -- be safe. flip Ich habe keine Ahnung was das bedeutet, oder vielleicht doch? Remove origin of the word spam from address to reply (leave "+") |
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