rox
Veteran Member
I wasn't going to write about this project because it was so dippy.
Here in southern France very few people have window screens mainly I suppose because they don't have mosquitos around here. Our home has only 3 windows and all the rest of the rooms have sliding patio doors. Each bedroom a sliding patio door. Our long range plans are to get regular sliding screen doors install on all those patio doors but in the meantime we wanted to have some screens.
Intiially I jsut bought screening by the meter and duct taped it up in the bedrooms and my office. That worked pretty good but for some reason the screen in my office kept falling down. Then I hit on the idea, "Why don't I build an old fashioned wooden screen and insert it in front of the patio door.
Since allt he buildings are built with cement blocks you always have a good 6" of window ledge to work with. Nothing here is ever plumb or straingt so when I measured and cut the permiter boards for the frame I shorted them an itty bit. I was going to wedge some insulation or something around the frame to fill in the uneven spaces between the frame and the surrounding walls.
As I was laying out the screening material on the frame I got the idea to leave about 4" hanging beyond the permiter of the wood frame. When I fit the screen into the non plumb/non square opening, the excess 4 inches of screening material was sticking out on the outside of the wood frame. I jsut used a screwdriver and pushed the excess 4" of screening material in between the frame and the walls and floor. It came out really great
. It is nice and snug and since it is all screening it keeps all the bugs out. Of course in the USA you can easily go to your local hardware store and get all the products you need to do the job right. Here it is not that easy, at least for me.
It is still a pretty dippy project that I wasn't even going to write about but then I thought that perhaps some TBN'er has an old cabin or something where they would want to put in a screen in a non plumb window opening and they could use this low cost dippy way of doing it.
Here in southern France very few people have window screens mainly I suppose because they don't have mosquitos around here. Our home has only 3 windows and all the rest of the rooms have sliding patio doors. Each bedroom a sliding patio door. Our long range plans are to get regular sliding screen doors install on all those patio doors but in the meantime we wanted to have some screens.
Intiially I jsut bought screening by the meter and duct taped it up in the bedrooms and my office. That worked pretty good but for some reason the screen in my office kept falling down. Then I hit on the idea, "Why don't I build an old fashioned wooden screen and insert it in front of the patio door.
Since allt he buildings are built with cement blocks you always have a good 6" of window ledge to work with. Nothing here is ever plumb or straingt so when I measured and cut the permiter boards for the frame I shorted them an itty bit. I was going to wedge some insulation or something around the frame to fill in the uneven spaces between the frame and the surrounding walls.
As I was laying out the screening material on the frame I got the idea to leave about 4" hanging beyond the permiter of the wood frame. When I fit the screen into the non plumb/non square opening, the excess 4 inches of screening material was sticking out on the outside of the wood frame. I jsut used a screwdriver and pushed the excess 4" of screening material in between the frame and the walls and floor. It came out really great
. It is nice and snug and since it is all screening it keeps all the bugs out. Of course in the USA you can easily go to your local hardware store and get all the products you need to do the job right. Here it is not that easy, at least for me. It is still a pretty dippy project that I wasn't even going to write about but then I thought that perhaps some TBN'er has an old cabin or something where they would want to put in a screen in a non plumb window opening and they could use this low cost dippy way of doing it.
