The Invisible Dark Screen

The ninja are trained to be subtle enough to do things to you that are not even perceived. Provide you with an incredible high while taking your minds (let your brain be eaten by parasites that produce dopamine). Masked in ordinary things, with a slightly different rate, or occurrence or location.

Every time i went with my nose real close to a window screen i felt the smell of mold. How is that possible, manny would ask. Windows screen are outside, exposed to wind and sun, and look clean.

It is possible and i'm going to prove it to you. Not only that, but it can be used as intermediary buffer, between you and the ninja.

I usually start my searches with what i know about a subject. I knew windows screens, the kinda i have here at the apartment are made of of a woven fiberglass yarn that is coated with PVC. No matter how much i tried right now, (got tired after first hour of searches, right after "i came to terms" that is, actual, real search terms after i became familiar with the subject), i can't find a better magnification.

What happens is glass, (ordinary glass, not quartz of optical) is opaque to Sun's disinfecting UV. If the PVC coat gets damaged, then all kinda stuff will get inside the woven yarn. And grow in there and get ready for the next jump. Inside and onto you.

Windows screens are really another major health hazard i identified in American homes.

I wash them regularly (used to every 6 months, now every month) with a micro-fiber cloth, water and a drop of detergent. Water comes dirty mostly due to dust that settles onto it that also harbors a whole biology.

Prior to re-painting of all buildings (by SAGE team) the screens upstairs where so dirty, they turned red-brown (due to redwood chips, got pictures, somewhere). Two years after power washing, they now already started to look different then mine, that i keep as clean as possible. But when i washed them last night, disturbing and breathing the dust, i thought i felt the distinctive smell of cat. When they got warmed by the worm water that i used. Today i know i got reinfected, big time.

So don't be shy as i was before i became desperate enough, removed them from windows and washed them with a sponge and the showerhead in the tub. First time i did that here the water came black.

That was before i realized you can wash them on the window. They won't break, even after many washes. That fiberglass is quite tough, a similar type is used for reinforcing wall repairs. If you don't believe me, go to Home Depot, buy a piece and try to break it. Or try to walk through a door screen, as i did in Lake Oswego.

Can wash them even from inside with warm water and detergent, water will fall like rain does, through the holes left in window's frame. But easiest is form outside, with windows closed. At least for ground level. Detergent will leave some foam, it will be gone and dried in half hour.

But they won't last long clean, at most a couple of weeks. Careless design, cheap poorly chosen method of fabrication, they're a dirt trap. A bad idea.

In the image the mesh seem to be made of a continuous string, but it's many tiny woven fiberglass strings.