[Greenbuilding] rainscreen, siding, and yellowjackets

[Rob Tom]

On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 13:52:22 -0400, susannah <susannah at cyber-dyne.com>  
wrote:

> gap ... layers is prime yellowjacket habitat. I'm thinking of using some  
> windowscreen fabric to try and preventthem from moving in

> But at the bottom, it's more difficult.

It's also prime condo space for earwigs, $#!t flies, wasps, ...well, it'd  
be easier to list the critters that wouldn't like to move into the  
airspace.

Susannah;

If you were to take some aluminum or copper window screen which unlike the  
plastic stuff has some rigidity ... and were to cut it to length and roll  
it into a tube of a diameter that is slightly larger than the airspace (ie  
7/8" diameter tube if the airspace is 3/4"),  I think that you could  
probably stuff it into the gap and have it stay there by itself, sort of  
like foam backer rod.

Come to think of it, if the screen "tube" doesn't stay in the gap on its  
own, I suppose that you could take some foam backer rod and snip off three  
short pieces (say 1" long each) and roll it into the screen tube (one plug  
at each end and one in the mid-section of the tube) and the backer rod  
would likely provide enough pressure to keep the tube in place.

If the backer rod doesn't provide enough pressure, then maybe some stiffer  
tubular material (garden hose ?) and if that doesn't do the trick...a  
couple of dabs of silicone, using a coupole of tabs of tape to hold the  
tube in place until the silicone cures.

To make the rolling of the screen tubes idiot-proof, you could use a short  
piece of
7/8" OD pipe as a jig, possibly using something like a fold-lock seam to  
keep the tube from unrolling.




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