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Fig. 9

From: Participatory development of practical, affordable, insecticide-treated mosquito proofing for a range of housing designs in rural southern Tanzania

Fig. 9

The panels show how some of the larger  brick houses with metal roofs fitted with netting on their eaves following the request of house owners. A, B Are both representative the kind of large houses that required a lot of netting, tape, nails, glue and other sundry materials to screen their eaves. The netting screens were first glued to bottom of the iron roof and then other hanging part was nailed on to the walls. Unfortunately, this particular installation format never lasted more than a year after installation (C), due to detachment of the glued section from the iron roof sheets. As illustrated in A, in all cases brick houses requesting netting eave screens declined to have the brickwork in their window spaces reorganized into lattices

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