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Hawaii has no screens because there are no mosquitoes. Here in Raleigh I found that I only open a few specific windows throughout the year, so those have screens. The rest of the screens I removed and store in a shed because it makes the view out those windows cleaner and brighter.
Yes. If a window does not have a screen, I won't open it. When we bought our house, it did have screens/storm windows but they were old and we opted to buy all new windows (for insulation reasons). The new windows all came with screens which I was grateful for. The thought of buying screens on top of the windows would have been a nightmare (not to mention more expensive). I think there are a few windows that we haven't put the screens in yet but we don't open them so it doesn't matter.
When we bought our sailboat, we were amazed that it came with screens (the people we bought the boat from had them custom made). They attach with Velcro. When you are out in the middle of the lake at night, you can leave the hatch open for air and don't have to worry about getting eaten alive by mosquitoes. The problem was that I had to keep gluing the Velcro on because it kept coming off-but I would much rather do that than not have screens at all.
One of my coworkers promptly removed all the screens on her house after she bought it saying "in the south, we don't put screens on windows, we want to feel the breeze blowing in".
My reference to Europe would be better stated as Austria... in and around Salzburg.
Screens simply did not exist even in the 80's... I shipped over aluminum frames with screen material from my local ACE hardware to do the house...
It was quite a curiosity and neighbors chuckled at my American ways...
Thirty years later there is not a new build or renovation without screens... mostly for the summer mosquitoes... it would be very annoying to be soundly sleeping and hear a mosquito zeroing in on your head... but is was purely seasonal...
Here in California... the Mosquitoes have already been out since mid January... just got off the phone with my friends in Austria and everything is under a blanket of snow!
Hawaii has no screens because there are no mosquitoes. Here in Raleigh I found that I only open a few specific windows throughout the year, so those have screens. The rest of the screens I removed and store in a shed because it makes the view out those windows cleaner and brighter.
We had screens in Hawaii but it was formerly base housing... didn't keep the lizards out.
I was in Germany for a couple of short stints and there were no screens there that I saw. But they all had lace curtains. hmmm....
One of my coworkers promptly removed all the screens on her house after she bought it saying "in the south, we don't put screens on windows, we want to feel the breeze blowing in".
Whether this is true or not, I cannot say.
What a strange thing for her to say! Screens don't keep breezes from blowing in. When my screened windows are open, I can feel the breeze, if any, just fine. Screens are nothing but thousands of little holes, right?
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What a strange thing for her to say! Screens don't keep breezes from blowing in. When my screened windows are open, I can feel the breeze, if any, just fine. Screens are nothing but thousands of little holes, right?
Actually, screens do impede the breeze. It's not by much, but there is a slight difference.
Something I always notice in movies and TV shows, when someone opens a window, there is no screen - they can jump right out, throw something, lean out, whatever.
Where I grew up (northeast US) we always had screens. But I asked about this on another forum a while ago and apparently not everyone has them.
So, do you have them, and what area are you in? Are there places where it is normal NOT to have them?
I have them. The deep south (Louisiana). Have to, because of all the bugs in this subtropical climate.
I think they may not be common in areas that don't have a lot of bugs. Big cities in the north, maybe. Highrises, where it's too high for many bugs.
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