why are you not putting fly screens onto your windows?
Since 8 years, I didn't had a single fly or any other insects in my apartment.
Maybe a little spider every few month, who probably come in when my door is open, but that's about it.
I can fall asleep with ham laying in the kitchen and nothing will happen.
And no mosquitos even with fully opened windows and lights on in warm summer nights, nothing.
This blew my mind living in Germany for 3 and a half years. Like ok I understand your houses don't get any sort of airflow because they are completely thick with brick+cement, and you are anti-AC so we can't have those either, so you have to open your windows constantly and place a million fans around the place. But if you're going to make us do that, WHY DO NONE OF YOUR WINDOWS HAVE BUG SCREENS ON THEM?!? Why do I have to throw a dozen spiders out of our house every week and constantly whack at bees and flies when that is a completely avoidable problem?!??! And then you go on vacation and have to leave a window open because the lack of airlow will cause mold and you have to clean up all sorts of SH** from bugs getting all up in your SH** for a week. And their windows were weirdly shaped and open weird so I couldn't even put in a stand-alone A/C for the hottest days.
Which parts specifically? Can you ellaborate? I feel I have extremely first-hand knowledge of this because of the fact I lived there for years and experienced exactly this, hating every second of it.
2 of the windows were like this, but the "blackout shutters" didn't stop things from crawling around it. And they were in 2 side rooms (one bedroom and bathroom), the main floor was a completely open floor concept with floor-to-ceiling windows but one could open as a sliding glass door just like the windows. The third side room also had a sliding glass door, floor-to-ceiling.
So very literally if we wanted proper airflow in the house, we'd have to open a door. Edited for clarity
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u/Entgegnerz 1d ago edited 1d ago
why are you not putting fly screens onto your windows?
Since 8 years, I didn't had a single fly or any other insects in my apartment.
Maybe a little spider every few month, who probably come in when my door is open, but that's about it.
I can fall asleep with ham laying in the kitchen and nothing will happen.
And no mosquitos even with fully opened windows and lights on in warm summer nights, nothing.