Sliding Mosquito Nets for Bainguinim.

Nets come second in a Bainguinim home, straight after the curtain tracks, and are worth doing before moving in. Where a new flat has aluminium sliding windows, there is generally a spare channel, or room beside the glass, for a sliding net to run in. The wide doors of plot houses that open onto a garden are better served by pleated nets whose floor track is almost flat, as a single panel or as two that meet at the centre. Vacant plots and building sites can hold standing water in the monsoon, which breeds mosquitoes, so screen the bathroom ventilators as well. On sides that face the wind, prefer the rigid sliding frame. Standard fibreglass mesh suits this inland village.

• Aluminium sliding windows in new flats: a net shutter that slides in a channel next to the glazing, put in ahead of the furniture.
• Garden doors of plot houses: pleated mesh across the full opening, with a flat threshold track that nobody trips over.
• Upper-floor balcony doors open to the wind: a sliding frame with a firm bottom guide in place of loose pleated mesh.