Magnetic Window Screen | Midge Mesh Window Screen | Window Screen With Magnets

It covers a window opening up to 100 cm wide and 100 cm tall, which makes it the best magnetic window screen for a standard single window in the range. You cut the frame down to your exact window, so order the size that is a little bigger than the opening rather than a little smaller.

Measure the frame recess, not the glass. The magnetic strip sticks to the flat face of the frame around the opening, so that's the area the screen has to cover.

Get in touch before you order. We make these to size, so a window past the 200 x 200 cm kit's a quote rather than a problem.

Yes. The PVC frame cuts with a sharp blade or a strong pair of scissors, and the mesh cuts with scissors. No tradesman tools and nothing to drill.

That's where these do better than rigid aluminium screens. Older houses rarely have two windows the same, and because you cut each frame to the window in front of you, an out-of-square opening still ends up with a tidy fit.

Most people do their first window in about twenty minutes and the rest a lot faster. Measure, stick the magnetic strip around the frame, cut the screen, press it on.

Inside. The screen sits on the interior face of the frame, which is why it lasts and why you can take it down without a ladder.

A tape measure, scissors or a blade, and a cloth to wipe the frame before the adhesive goes on. Nothing else.

Yes. The magnetic strip is 3M self-adhesive and it holds on timber, as long as the surface is clean, dry and not flaking.

Yes. It suits all common window types and frame materials. The magnets grip the steel strip you fit, not the frame itself, so the frame material makes no difference.

It's designed to come off cleanly. The strip is what we call permanently temporary: it holds for years but lifts away without taking the finish with it.

Yes, and it's one of the main reasons people buy them. It's about the best DIY insect screen for renters you can fit, because nothing is drilled and nothing is permanent, so the whole thing comes off when you move out.

White, brown or black, all at the same price. White suits uPVC, brown suits timber and black suits dark or aluminium frames.

No. Pick on looks. The idea is that the frame disappears against your window, so choose the one closest to what you already have.

Standard grey mesh is woven 18 x 16 to the square inch with 66% open area. Midge mesh is black, woven 20 x 20 with 45% open area, and it stops the smaller biting insects. This one is Standard Mesh (Grey).

Standard grey mesh is the one most people want. The weave is open enough that you barely notice it from inside, and it still stops everything that normally gets in through an open window.

This is the standard grey mesh, which stops flies, mosquitoes and wasps. Midges and no-see-ums are small enough to get through an 18 x 16 weave. If you live near water, marshland or the coast, take the midge mesh instead.

Fibreglass. It's woven from glass yarn and coated in vinyl, so it won't rust, corrode or stain, and it stays flexible instead of going brittle.

No. Fibreglass screening is non-combustible, which is one of the reasons it replaced the old plastic meshes.

You'll see through it, but it's a screen, so it takes a little light. This one is grey, with 66% open area. Dark mesh is easier to see through than pale mesh, because your eye focuses past it.

No. Air moves through it freely. At 66% open area you get less through this one than through plain netting, but the point of a window screen is to leave the window open, and it does.

There are finger tabs on the bottom corners. Pull a tab, the corner lifts away, you open or close the window, then let go and the magnets snap it back.

The kit includes wind clips for exactly that. On exposed windows fit the clips and the screen stays put in weather that would flap a loose net.

You can, and plenty of people do. Others take them down over winter and put them back in spring, which the magnetic fixing makes easy either way.

Lift it off, spray it with water and a little detergent, rinse it and let it dry before you put it back. Keep grit off the magnetic strip so the seal stays flush.

A determined cat can, because the screen is held on by magnets rather than fixed. If you have cats, look at the cat-proof window screen instead. It is built for that.

Barely. The frame is slim and colour-matched, and from any distance the screen reads as part of the window. That's the difference against a bulky aluminium screen.

The PVC frame lengths, the mesh, the magnetic strip with its self-adhesive backing, four corner pieces and two wind clips.

Yes. Frame is sold by the metre, magnetic strip by the metre, and replacement mesh and corner sets are listed on their own if you need to repair or extend a screen.

There's a lifetime warranty on the magnet attraction, which is the part that has to keep working. Mesh and frame are consumable and cut to fit by you.