Floating Screen Room Keeps Bugs At Bay

Floating Screen Room Keeps Bugs At Bay FARM HOME Miscellaneous 30-5-3 Darryl Enns and his family at Elm Creek, Manitoba, were sick of being bitten by horse flies when swimming at their lake place, so he invented a floating screen room to keep out biting bugs. The simple structure worked so well to provide a peaceful sanctuary that Enns started making them for others. "I don't understand how such a small insect can bite so hard, be so hard to swat, and be so determined to spoil a perfect summer day at the lake," Enns' wife Jody says. "When I try to escape them by hiding underwater, they are like white on rice when my head emerges. We used to think there was no way of avoiding them other than going indoors." Darryl's floating screen room provides plenty of room inside for a few tubes and air mattresses, and is also high enough for a football to be tossed around. It has a water-tight plastic frame with no-see-um mesh stretched over it. Enns ties the structure to the dock so it doesn't drift away. "I used the no-see-um mesh, as it keeps out all bugs, and it's not black - a color horse flies love," Enns says. "We enter it by simply swimming underneath. You could lift a corner to get in, but that usually lets flies in also. I made it 8 by 14 by 3 ft. high and it cost about $300. This size seems to be the most functional, without having too much wind resistance on it. But they could be made to almost any size." Enns says it takes about 15 minutes to assemble the shelter for use. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Darryl Enns, Box 10, Elm Creek, Manitoba, Canada R0G 0N0 (ph 204 436-2335; fax 204 436-2335; email info@hoppercover.com).

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