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[quote=Anonymous]We have a covered deck with a ceiling fan. It's essentially just like a screened porch but without the screens. We had a screened porch in a previous house, but I didn't care for the upkeep with keeping the screens clean and how the pollen etc. gets trapped inside. This is much easier to clean. Also, where we live now we have lots of high winds in the late winter/early spring, and it seemed easier not to have to worry about the upkeep of screens in the long run. A final bonus is we're not blocking as much light into the house with just a roof... if we had screens we would block more light. The roof still keeps our porch furniture nice and dry which is great (even from morning dew).  
We spray our yard for ticks which helps a lot with the bugs... but also possibly because of our micro-climate of high winds, I think we tend to get fewer mosquitoes overall. So I don't find we need the screens to keep out insects here. In a different house I might feel otherwise though.
We have a small deck and patio area too and use both of those quite a bit too... in the cooler months I like to be out in the sun, not in the shade! If anything in the future I'd like to improve and expand on our patio. I've seen many nice screen porch/covered deck projects that include expansive patio areas adjacent to them.   
 
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