How to have an open window but also prevent flies from coming in, in a college dorm?

Question

if there's any place that i can find like a screen or any equipment that is not so expensive is fine. it's a college in Miami if it helps for store names etc.

Answer 1

If you wanna go really cheap, just go to a fabric store (or the fabric/craft section at Walmart), and they will sell netting by the yard.  You could just staple or tack it around the window, or find some other way to mount it, I guess.

Answer 2

i think thats an obvious one

probably just a screen

Answer 3

get a screen

Answer 4

#2--go to lowes or home depot and they sell a kit with corners and you cut the aluminum horizontal and vertical frame strips to fit your window and then put the screen in with spline .they sell it in a kit just make sure you get the spline tool.#1--you are in miami call 395-262-6168 i believe they are on 75th nw anyway measure youre opening and get ya a screen made up for less than 20.00 hassle free go #1.....later

Answer 5

An electric fan will do it. Flies don't like flying through moving air. Blow a fan across the open window space and they won't want to enter. Commercial loading docks use this often.

Answer 6

hardware stores sell small screens that are adjustable to fit different size windows, they are about a foot high and probably under ten bucks.  You have to put it in the window every time you open it though.  You could also get some netting at a sewing store or replacement screening at a hardware store (thats not in a frame) and staple it to the outside of the window frame