We have insects in Europe, don't we? We all get plagued by mosquitos summer after summer, right? Then why is it that only the Americans have bug screens?
Bug screens are brilliant. You can open your windows or doors to get fresh air, yet keep annoying flying creatures outside where they belong. And if you want to go outside, you just slide the screen aside and Bob is your proverbial.
Fellow New World newbies beware: Don't forget that you have a bug screen and walk straight through. You may end up as I did; with a nasty surprise, a bump on the head and a defenestrated bug screen at your feet.
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I know Americans living in Britain who have wondered the very same thing. Here in Germany, you can buy rolls of bug screens that you stick to your window frames, but I suspect they aren't as robust as the ones in the US that you can remove and replace with storm windows when summer's over and reuse each year. That was a biannual ritual in our house - switching the storm windows for screens at the beginning of the warm weather, and vice-versa in autumn.
I'm intrigued: What are storm windows?
Like the screen windows, they go next to the bottom part of sash windows, and face the exterior. They're just panes of glass in aluminum frames. The window frames have grooves for them - you slide the bottom sash, lift up the screen or storm window and slide it up and out of its grooves, and reverse the procedure for installing the next season's windows.
But don't ask me why you'd need them; I think they came with the house (built in 1937) and we just used them.
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