Anyone installed mosquito nets on windows, screen doors etc?

[d000hg]

It's pretty unusual in the UK, but in many parts of the USA they fit mosquito netting on windows and doors as standard... Fixed panels, screen doors etc.

We live in a wooded area between two rivers and have a lot of mosquitos... Aside from which if we leave a window open at night the ceiling will be black with bugs which is just gross.

I'd love any tips from people who addressed this problem... Or links to companies selling kits/products.
Our Windows are traditional sash types. We did fashion an interior roller blind with some mosquito net, but it seems most people have netting fixed OUTSIDE the windows?

 

[TRUSTME]

It should be mandatory in the UK for house builders to install door mesh. Because of climate change we are heading for a x 100 times surge in UK insect life and a nightmare increase in their survival and breeding rates. Due to climate change we need to ask: Is the invasion of the Super-Bug on our doorstep.

I saw these screens everywhere in the USA, the only drawback was if the screen was closed it darkened the hallway, and, if a Black African was the home owner and was stood behind the screen you had some difficulty seeing him, some opened the screen to callers and some didn't. In the USA the door screens are built like an inner-door on door-hinges. The NHS might get involved in any promotion of screen-use in view of the health risks from flies and insects.

I have been to Africa and seen children playing out surrounded and covered by fly swarms, so are nearby cattle, pigs, sheep, chickens and even lions. I have seen lions sleeping in the sun and some very brave to me flies walking all over the Kings mouth and jaws, taking a possible inaccurate guess a lot of African children eye and health problems might stem from flies landing on their face each day causing dry-sore-skin and eye problems. A way to catch house flies is to use a vacuum cleaner hose, switch it on and wave the nozzle near them and they soon get the message - death arrives out of the air. Homeowners who live near butchers shops badly needsd these screens fitted, butchers shop yards often contain dust bins full of bones and meat scrap waste and these mini-dumps attract thousands of flies each summer to them. I knew someone who used to spend hours killing flies with a twanged elastic band, his aim was so deadly he could kill 100 or so in no time using a piece of elastic about 10 inches long, he was the best known elastic twanger in Middlesbrough. The Tom Mix of downtown Middlesbrough who feared no fly, wasp or beetle. Its rumoured that the Russian's once dropped an atomic -bomb on Middlesbrough and it did £10-00 worth of damage, the 1930s fly-capital of England it was, and presumably still is.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I hate flies buzzing round the house, but like having my back door open when its warm. I bought one of those magnetic closing meshes, they part down the middle, pulled together by several magnets. That part worked absolutely fine, but not the method of attachment to the door frame, using velcro.

It constantly kept coming unstuck. I liked the idea so much, I decided to try to solve the velcro problem. I made up a frame of 15x15mm timber, which I then screwed to the door frame through the mesh. It now works well, you just push your way through it and it closes up behind you.

 

[JP_]

I rented a flat in 1995 that had a metal mesh screen fitted to the windows, it was great. No moths got in, kept room cool. No idea who made it though! Probably somebody like these https://www.noflystore.co.uk/

 

[JohnD]

They are readily available on Ebay

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_...0.Xinsect+mesh.TRS0&_nkw=insect+mesh&_sacat=0

And some DIY sheds

https://www.homebase.co.uk/sanremo-screen-door-set-white_p471616

https://www.homebase.co.uk/fly-screen_p284204

They seem to be listed as "fly screen"

https://www.google.com/search?q=scr...droid-samsung&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

I have fitted them in Australia but not here.

You usually buy a cut-to-size frame and a roll of mesh. They go outside (unless you have outward-opening windows)

 

[d000hg]

Thanks all. I was trying to figure out if I want them up all the time since they do spoil visibility and block some light. Or if I'd take them all down when it's not summer. That would probably impact inside or outside fitting. A simple frame clipped/magnet-ed would be easiest I guess.

Screen doors are great but might not bother with that.

 

[Tigercubrider]

Years ago I made a simple timber 2x1 frame with centre horizontal rail that I painted white. Then stapled white net curtain to the frame. It lasted years and was trapped in an aluminium patio door frame, held by slightly closing the door.

Later I bought a quite expensive kit that comprised of extruded aluminium rails and plastic fixings. Net was held into a grove by forcing a round plastic /rubber string into it. Worked well. But that was before Amazon

 

[charliegolf]

I've used these several times (all upstairs rooms have the pull-down window roller blinds), and am happy with the ease of diy-ing and effectiveness. Not cheap tho'!

https://newblinds.co.uk

I also have a full height 1200 wide roller-to-the-side model which is good for venting, but my family keep yankin' it out of the track! But they are dicks

CG