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I like my screens & I have them all year round, I also open the windows alot to let fresh air in, & keep cats in too.
If you ever notice a warning on a screen, the label that says" warning for insect repellant use only, it is because some jerk of a "Dad" threw his toddler through a window, & then sued the screen company for not stopping the child from falling out the window.
Screens are important, especially while you sleep, so that a bat doesn't fly in. Having had a great aunt who died from rabies due to a bat flying into the house I always think of this.
On HGTV, a wall of slider windows are popular, spending $10k on the 3 piece sliding wall door instead of the regular two panel sliding door. Don't younger people worry about insects or bats as you say? NJ talk radio has been doing the bat topic pretty regularly, so I wonder if bats are a problem in most parts of the state these days. There seems to be no shortage of people calling in about bats in their home during the hour they devote to topics I don't ever remember bats flying in or near homes from when I was a kid in the 70's, but I live in a part of Jersey that was pretty built up unlike where I now live in South Jersey. You can regularly see bats flying around at night
At our old house that we just sold, my garage door was mostly up because everyone smoked in the garage. Every year we got at least one small bird in the garage that I knew about. I'm sure they regularly came in. No bats, even if the garage door was up or partially up at night when my husband was working nights.
I guess I should have added - when I said the great majority of homes have hung windows - I meant in the areas where screens are used. 2nd biggest metro area (I'm assuming LA...?) - I think A/C is your friend there, not year round open windows, and probably snow is not too common.
Orig. post that led to window types was the question about if the screens are in or out - and my comment on that is since most windows (WITH SCREENS) are on doublehung or single hung windows, the screen is nearly always out.
For sliding doors with screen in - how do you lock the door? I mean - seems like a complex arrangement - at the very least, I'd have to open the screen - then open the door - then close the screen - to make use of it, no?
For "cranky" windows, be they casement or awning, they are more common in "new" homes (maybe?) but new homes aren't the majority of all homes. Older homes (WITH SCREENS) by far have single or double hung windows.
Sheesh! This was a deep hole for a simple OP question: "Screens are common in cooler areas as AC is NOT common, and bugs are." Very simple.
I guess I should have added - when I said the great majority of homes have hung windows - I meant in the areas where screens are used. 2nd biggest metro area (I'm assuming LA...?) - I think A/C is your friend there, not year round open windows, and probably snow is not too common.
Orig. post that led to window types was the question about if the screens are in or out - and my comment on that is since most windows (WITH SCREENS) are on doublehung or single hung windows, the screen is nearly always out.
For sliding doors with screen in - how do you lock the door? I mean - seems like a complex arrangement - at the very least, I'd have to open the screen - then open the door - then close the screen - to make use of it, no?
For "cranky" windows, be they casement or awning, they are more common in "new" homes (maybe?) but new homes aren't the majority of all homes. Older homes (WITH SCREENS) by far have single or double hung windows.
Sheesh! This was a deep hole for a simple OP question: "Screens are common in cooler areas as AC is NOT common, and bugs are." Very simple.
It appears to be really important for you to believe in the hung window prevalence, god knows why.
Screens are everywhere out here, on sliders and casements.
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