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Insect Screens
Useful advice John and thank you, assuming you mean on the road from Cabarete to Sosua - not sure I want to see what he has got but certainly would like to see his range of flyscreen material. :surprised
Another problem with screens, aside from dogs 
is that most frames here are so poorly fitted/made that there are always gaps that allow mosquitos in.
We have all our windows and doors screened but still have our share of mosquitos in the house.
Having a skanky, mosquito breeding lagoon across the street at an abandoned construction site doesn't help.....aranoid::ermm:
is that most frames here are so poorly fitted/made that there are always gaps that allow mosquitos in.
We have all our windows and doors screened but still have our share of mosquitos in the house.
Having a skanky, mosquito breeding lagoon across the street at an abandoned construction site doesn't help.....
aranoid::ermm:
As said by others... NO!
Dominicans seem to only know how to open doors, not close them behind them.
I constantly have to close doors behind them everytime they come to the house. I built a house for the in-laws with screening, they leave the doors open all day and at night until they go to bed.
Asking them to do otherwise is a waste of time.
Don ♥ SantiagoDR
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It's a possibility; but not in all places...
This isn't a bad idea to promote with officials...
'ta loco tu????
At least 80% of the homes in this country are made out of palm wood with large (>6") spaces left between the roof and the top of the wall. Not only that the palm wood is very irregular and many spaces are left on the interior and exterior walls. The doors are equally porous as well. See an example below from the inlaw's house.
Question
Sorry to go off topic but I seem to remember you Momma talking about the mosquito Magnate ! Do you use it in the DR and if so does it work well? Or was it another product you where using?
is that most frames here are so poorly fitted/made that there are always gaps that allow mosquitos in.
We have all our windows and doors screened but still have our share of mosquitos in the house.
Having a skanky, mosquito breeding lagoon across the street at an abandoned construction site doesn't help.....
Sorry to go off topic but I seem to remember you Momma talking about the mosquito Magnate ! Do you use it in the DR and if so does it work well? Or was it another product you where using?
'ta loco tu????
At least 80% of the homes in this country are made out of palm wood with large (>6") spaces left between the roof and the top of the wall. Not only that the palm wood is very irregular and many spaces are left on the interior and exterior walls. The doors are equally porous as well. See an example below from the inlaw's house.
That's 80% in the campos maybe, 95% of homes in the City of Santiago and Santo Domingo de Guzman are built with cinder blocks and concrete roofs...
:ninja:
Let me explain something to most folks here:
Samana, Puerto Plata, La Romana, etc... Were never cities to themselves, but always considered campos close to the sea...
When you think of the DR and all the provinces don't try and compare them to the same rule of other countries. In the DR there are two big cities only and the rest is pretty much campo still.
The influx of foreigners that have come to the DR and made those coastal cities home; is what has added to the growth as cities to those campos.
Santiago for example has grown horizontally unlike the D.N. of Santo Domingo.
When I hold a conversation with anyone about the DR and we touch on cities, I make it a point to speak of the two mentioned above; the rest is "montes y culebras".
Samana, Puerto Plata, La Romana, etc... Were never cities to themselves, but always considered campos close to the sea...
When you think of the DR and all the provinces don't try and compare them to the same rule of other countries. In the DR there are two big cities only and the rest is pretty much campo still.
The influx of foreigners that have come to the DR and made those coastal cities home; is what has added to the growth as cities to those campos.
Santiago for example has grown horizontally unlike the D.N. of Santo Domingo.
When I hold a conversation with anyone about the DR and we touch on cities, I make it a point to speak of the two mentioned above; the rest is "montes y culebras".
You must have forgotten that I live here in Santiago. Thre is no way on God's green earth that 95% of the homes here in Santiago have concrete roofs - or have you forgotten El Ejido, Pueblo Nuevo, La Joya, Bella Vista, etc etc etc?