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When on freaking earth do we not have window and door screens in this country?

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Add message | Report | Contact poster By Wed 01-Jul-09 12:41:13
Weve got the Lidl stuff. Got all our windows open. Its great.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Wed 01-Jul-09 12:26:41
KM - my friend's mother had a door screen on her back door - also in Ireland (she had lived in the US for a long time!) Don't know where she got it from though - I would think she got someone local to make it for her (or she might have made it herself - she is quite handy at stuff like that)
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Mon 29-Jun-09 21:47:18
just buy raid, one squirt and they're dead
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Mon 29-Jun-09 21:45:58
Aldi have them cheapat mo
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Mon 29-Jun-09 21:40:06
we made our own in Australia

i have never understood why you don't have them in the UK.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Mon 29-Jun-09 20:35:20
and I've just this afternoon seen more of that netting with the velcro on the back of my SIL's betterware catalogue.......looked quite a bit more expensive though
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Mon 29-Jun-09 14:25:35
The flies are revolting I agree, but I still don't want to have screens or close the French doors <stubborn>.

Disgusting little creatures - eyes up bad big ol fly in room.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Mon 29-Jun-09 14:21:04
off to lidl. i have googled and they're all EXPENSIVE looking. Fgs. They cost nothing in the states.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Mon 29-Jun-09 14:19:38
i think we just don't have them as the norm becuase we'd use them for such a short time each year so it isn't really worth it

but yes, they are definitely easily available
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Mon 29-Jun-09 14:18:48
Lidl do great mosquito netting that comes with sticky-back velcro to put around your windows.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Mon 29-Jun-09 14:18:05
i'm in ireland
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Mon 29-Jun-09 14:17:45
really????
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Mon 29-Jun-09 14:17:33
Where are you? Are you not in UK, as you say UK 'as well'?

Google it. They can be bought in UK at least. I proved this once to an American friend who was always complaining that window screens weren't the norm. It's just a cultural thing that we don't tend to bother with them in the UK, but they are perfectly readily available.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Mon 29-Jun-09 14:16:57
you can buy them, just google
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Mon 29-Jun-09 14:14:58
And UK as well.

FFS

I am sick of these black flies.

I am going to start a new business. I was in Croatia and there were screens on every window. Same as in the States.
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