Date:         Tue, 15 Feb 2000 07:40:38 -0500
Reply-To:     eric.henning@US.ABB.COM
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From:         Eric Henning <eric.henning@US.ABB.COM>
Subject:      Re: bug netting on sliding door
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Wendy Silva wrote:

>Also has anyone used mosquito netting for a bug screen on the sliding door.
>I know there are serveral good sliding door screens on the market now but
>sadly our sliding door screen money just turned into the new water pump
>fund.

Wendy,

Last summer while I was camped out with my family in a friends front yard over
looking the
Sakonnet River (R.I.), I used window screening clipped to the rain gutter, door,
 floor and used a magnetic
strip on the leading edge of the slider opening.  This was done out of
desperation during the hot nights.
Worked pretty well.  Everybody in the van woke up with no mosquito bites, but I,
 who slept out under the stars
was covered in bites.  I think with a little fine tuning, bug screen can work
very well.  Major donwside
is access thru the screen.  My haphazard design slapped together in seconds did
not lend itself to
opening and closing without reattaching most of the clips that would going
spronging off into space if the
screening was yanked.

eric h.
80 westy