There must be a 1001 options for fly screens, but having got fed up with the overlapping ones that are a buggers muddle to get through and others that flap in the breeze and let the blighters in anyway – we found a solution that still works for us.
Before replying I checked out on Toms wonderful ‘Little Exsis Book’ and found reference to my post of a few years ago – it can be found under Fly Screens section 64 on page 597/996, along with other comments on this subject.
I have just fitted it up in the van (quick as a flash) as it is held by a Velcro strip along the top and we have added 5 little strips down each side to keep it taught and aid the coming together of the magnets, click click click. just push to open and walk through and give each side a quick flap and it just comes together. We did buy the second screen because the magnets were 170mm apart and were a bit gappy. The white one stitched inside is sufficent to prevent this and makes the whole net hang better anyway – and they don’t come through. I will post some photos that I have just taken, after I have uploaded them
I have also just checked to see if this ‘disposable’ item is still available……and would you believe it, it is!
Look up JML Snap Screens magnetised Mesh Door Curtain, I also found it in Argos still at £10.
Here is what I copied from p.597.
Its a two piece net held together at the centre by magnets and by self adhesive
Velcro at the sides. It only cost £10 at Wilko – but at the first trial fitting we
thought the gaps between the magnets was too big allowing gaping – so we bought
another (cheap enough at £10). Gill joined them together with black outer & white
inner offsetting the magnet positions to decrease the gaps and prevent gaping.
There is a fair bit of sewing – as the original nets are too long & too wide & and a
weight has to be added to bottom. Gill is brilliant dressmaker & machinists…..
perhaps we need a ‘Sewing Bee’ at the Exsistravaganza.
It functioned really well and was a joy to use -‘just push through at the centre and
it just clasps back together with the magnets at the centre with very little faffing
around with the net. Perhaps the double layer also acts as a breeze barrier also.
We only really saw midges one night whilst wild camped by a river – it worked
well.
Fred
