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Mosquitoes & Malaria

How Do You Get Malaria? People can only get malaria in tropical zones where a lot of disease and most of mosquitoes live and breed due to the warm muggy weather. Malaria is a virus that is carried by mosquitoes that is found in tropical zones and travels around by mossies. The process of malari…

Curtain, curtains

A curtain (in the US, also known as a drape or drapery) is a piece of cloth intended to block or obscure light, or drafts, or water in the case of a shower curtain. Curtains hung over a doorway are known as portieres. Curtains are often hung on the inside of a building's window to block the travel o…

Blinds

A window blind is a window covering composed of long strips of fabric or rigid material. Examples include shutters, Venetian blinds, roller shades and curtain-like track blinds. In Britain awnings are also considered blinds. A blind limits observation and thus “blinds” the observer to the view. The …

Vertical blinds, how to measure and install

Vertical blinds are going to run from the top of your window down to the bottom of your window, or even to the floor. Vertical blinds can be installed on the inside of the window casing or on the exterior of the window casing, which would put the blinds on the top of the window but on the out edge o…