The sun is out, the door is open ............and I am ****** off with flies coming in and crawling over my windows. I have a door curtain up which works a bit but can't someone invent a window cleaning fluid with either a fly killer or repellant in it.
I have tried spraying with flyspray... but that leaves marks on the windows and I try not to use it because of the dog, I have a fly killer thing just inside the door that they avoid and they ANNOY me. :-D

Totally agree

Can't stand flies in the house, won't tolerate them

I have a Fly Swat :-D

I'm known as the Ninja Fly Swatter, Very few get through our Door Curtain - cheap plastic strips, look awful but more effective than the more substantial bamboo/bead ones - but those who do don't survive long, one expert swat and that's it ;)  I seem to remember when I bought this one that it supposedly had a fly repellent on it, but I haven't noticed any difference, they all work well.

For upstairs we have a netting over the one window sealed on all three sides, it's a tilt and turn window that all the flies and wasps seem to get through, but not any more :-D  

I used to make a spray of Lavender, surgical spirit and water (enough spirit to make the water cloudy)  give it a good shake and spray it around the door frame to keep the flies out.

In the summer, well now....... it's finally arrived. :-D I always leave all my windows open in the house just a little and flies, bees, wasp, whatever flies in from the open doors and windows eventually finds it's way out again. It has worked for the last few years doing it this way and I very rarely have dead insects all over my windowsills now and the constant buzz buzz sounds of trapped insects.

You just have to remember to go around closing them all on a night. :-D

I can't abide fly's either, if one gets in the house then it's a hunt and destroy mission. I've just recently discovered the joy of the fly swat, they don't appear to be able to see the swat for some reason as even the mental kamikazie fly's are a doddle to eliminate.

with you on this one carrington. open everthing and they seem to find a way out :) the dogs are pretty good fly swats too and you get the laugh of watching them catch them

Last house we lived in had a ledge built into the back wall.  I bought two large chunky citronella candles and put one on either side of the door.  They would get lit when the door was first opened and would stay so until last thing a night.  It seemed to create a citronella force field around the door preventing the house being infested with thunder flies which was our problem.  I made sure that the candles were well out of the dogs reach and not near anything flammable and as they were outside the smell didn't seem to travel indoors.  I now use these candles on the window sills of any open windows as well.

Try these or this

I find the stickers to be slightly more effective.

Glad I'm not the only one with this problem. I can't bear them and was convinced I run a filthy kitchen. I'm not the Olympic champion fly swatter that Dill clearly is, and the dogs get extremely excited at the prospect of a new game that seems to consist of a demented human flinging herself and a newspaper at the windows. They all want to join in and the result is pandemonium. I won't use sprays--but wonder if a water pistol loaded with salt water might work?

Am I the only one whose dog proves his worth when it comes to summer flies?!

Im glad its not just me then, they seem to fly in squares just below my light fitment.  One year I even bought one of those electric blue light things, as the flies were near the ceiling and that was standing on the windowsill it didnt work.

Last night I had a really mosquito-ey type noise flying about my head so I splatted it against the wall.  It was at least a couple of inches long. Goodness knows where it had been as it was filled with what looked like bright red blood ughghghghgh.

I must have super stoopid fly's, my window's are open most of the time and the don't find their way out again, they whizz round the room like they are doing Speed, headbutt the window then zoom off again.

Last night I had a really mosquito-ey type noise flying about my head so I splatted it against the wall.  It was at least a couple of inches long. Goodness knows where it had been as it was filled with what looked like bright red blood ughghghghgh.

Wonder if it was a Sexton Beetle, I had one in my bedroom last year, insects don't normally give me the heebie's but this thing was enormous, and had a very loud buzz, got it out the window with great difficulty. Took me ages to identify it.