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Magnetic Insect Screens in Townsville

April 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment

This week we replaced our Amplimesh Security Screen with a Magnetic Insect Screen. Here are some photos of the window. The first photo is with the Amplimesh Security Screen, and the second photo is our new MagicSeal Magnetic Insect Screen.

The magnetic fly screen has made a huge difference in the dining room with greatly improved [...]

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Revisiting our Upstairs Security Screens

April 7th, 2008 · 4 Comments

One one of our upstairs windows we installed an Amplimesh Security Screen. There were reasons for installing a security screen on the top floor of our house, but they aren’t relevant any more, so I would get into it now.

The security screen is extremely secure. The one that we got installed is a stamped metal [...]

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7 Types of Window Blinds

March 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I posted an article a little while ago about 10 Advantages of Curtains over Blinds. It was written by someone else and had some good points about why curtains are a a better window covering than blinds. As we slowly get closer to finishing under the house we wanted to look at more options for [...]

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10 Advantages Of Curtains Over Blinds

January 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments

As we are hopefully moving closer to the time that we will actually be able to move into the ground floor of our house we are starting to think and talk about our window furnishings.
We have been quite partial to timber venetian blinds as we had them in our first house, and have [...]

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