Moving to Aargh 13 - Fly screens

We don't seem to have many mosquitos here, but there definitely are flies. 

Kitchen, upstairs bathroom, and downstairs wc, now have nice aluminium fly screens, crafted by engineer Jansen himself.

The downstairs wc screen has aluminium mesh, as you can reach it from the street, and the window is large enough to climb through! Don't want that.

The kitchen window has two large panes that swing open to the outside.  Chose to restrict that to the space between window and screen.

Mind the gap - terrace door

 The upstairs terrace door needed some work. 

Not just that, when it rains we always have a puddle of water behind that door. 

Engineer Jansen has spotted why. Can you spot it too? 

Congratulations, you spotted the ansteystyle gap.

Here is a solution. An iron T-bar was added to the door threshold, so the gap is removed. The door now rests against the T-bar, no gap.

To keep water out of the house,  at the bottom of the door there now is an aluminium profile that makes water fall off on the outside of the T-bar. 

A little silicone for water proofing.

Hm, the alu profile is a bit off the door at the lower part. However, there is some silicone there.

If it rains very very hard water may still get in, there still is a small gap at the side:

If that happens the engineer will add a tiny extra aluminium profile.

Jobs milestone

Today a milestone was reached in working on the house: the very last fly/mosquito/termite/... screen was finished. Now all twelve windows have a flyscreen.

This is the very oldest "window" of the house. It's not a window, but just a frame and a hatch. No glass. Possibly an original window, the others are much more recent. The wood was very dry and split. I soaked it in linseed and tung oil, it will probably last a while more. It does have a bit silicone around the frame, but as it's quite a bit up I won't bother to clean it up more. And I filled some gaps with silicone, too.