Patio fly screens, made to measure
Patio fly screens, made to measure
Enjoy the patio in the evening. It is the only time that counts.
In Australia a patio can mean an alfresco under the main roof, a deck with nothing above it, a verandah on posts or a sunroom that is already glazed. Each one takes a different screen, and two of them take none at all. This page sorts your setup out first, then gives you the right product, the real widths and the price in AUD.
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The patio is the best room in the house. Two hours a day.
Too hot by ten, full sun until five, and the one hour that is actually pleasant, from dusk onwards, is exactly the hour the mozzies clock on. From October to March the alfresco you paid for gets used for the barbecue and abandoned before the plates are cleared.
The solution depends on what you have above your head
It is the only question that matters. If the patio has a structure, we close the sides. If it does not, there is nothing to attach to: we screen the opening between the house and the patio instead. Both work, but they are not the same products.
Covered patio: close the sides
Pergola, awning, gazebo, roof overhang: as soon as there are posts and a beam, we make one mesh panel per side. The patio becomes an enclosed room.
Open patio: screen the opening
Without a structure, there is nothing to fix a fly screen to. So we screen the sliding door or French door: you leave it wide open and nothing gets into the house.
Either way, made to measure
No patio is standard. We manufacture up to 600 cm wide and high, and beyond, with 1 to 5 central splits depending on the walkways.
No structure? Close the doorway, not the patio
It is the most common setup, and the cheapest. Rather than trying to enclose an open slab, we screen the sliding or French door. You live outside, and the house stays sealed when you go back in.
- Leave the door open all evening, and all night if you want.
- Come and go hands full: the magnets close behind you.
- A budget in no way comparable to a glazed patio enclosure.
Four setups, four solutions
Identify yours: the right product decides the dimensions and the fitting.
Patio under a pergola
Attached, freestanding or louvred structure: we close the sides, panel by panel.
Patio under a gazebo
Freestanding garden structure, often demountable, in 3×3 or 4×3.
Conservatory or sunroom
Already enclosed with glazing: we screen the windows and the door, not the walls.
Apartment balcony
Upstairs, we screen the French door. Nothing drilled, rental friendly.
Against glazed enclosures and repellents
To make a patio liveable in the evening, three routes exist. They do not share the same budget, the same effect, or the same reversibility.
| Moskera | Glazed enclosure | Repellents (coils, diffusers) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stops mosquitoes | ✓ Physical barrier | ✓ Once closed | ~ Partially |
| Lets air through | ✓ Yes | ✗ No, you have to open it | ✓ Yes |
| No building work or permits | ✓ Yes | ✗ A project, often a permit | ✓ Yes |
| Budget | ✓ Exact price in the configurator | ✗ A building-project budget | ~ Low but bought again all season |
| Reversible | ✓ In minutes | ✗ Permanent | ✓ Yes |
Choose by what you are screening
Every range is made to measure, with the exact price shown in the configurator.
Large opening
To close the sides of a covered patio, or for a large sliding door. Multi-panel, up to 600 cm and beyond.
Made to measure price in the configurator
ConfigureDoor
For the French door opening onto the patio, or a single walkway.
Standard and made to measure price in the configurator
ConfigureWindow
For the windows of a conservatory, an outdoor kitchen or a pool house.
Standard and made to measure price in the configurator
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To fit
No tools, no drill, no tradesperson needed.
And beyond
Width is never the blocker: we add central splits.
Building work
No project, no permit, no trace when removed.
Your questions about patio fly screens
My patio has no structure at all. Is it possible?
Not the deck itself: a fly screen needs a top and two sides to hold onto, and an open deck or a bare slab has neither. What works, and what most Australian customers end up doing, is screening the stacker or French door between the house and the deck. You sit outside with a coil if you must, and the house behind you stays sealed all evening. It is also the cheapest answer by a long way.
On a covered patio, what does it attach to?
To the posts and beam of the structure, with a self-adhesive velcro strip. Aluminium, timber or steel, it does not matter: nothing is drilled and the strip removes without leaving a trace or residue.
What about a conservatory that is already enclosed?
A conservatory is glazed: the walls are not the problem, the openings are. So we screen the windows and the door, with the window and door models, not with large-opening panels.
Does it hold on a windy patio?
In an ordinary breeze, yes: the large opening range has galvanised steel weighted bars along the whole bottom hem, so the panels hang straight and settle back after each pass. On a coastal block that takes the afternoon southerly square on, take the panels down before a blow and put them back after; it is a minute each way, which is the point of a screen with no frame.
And for a pergola specifically?
Same principle as any covered patio: one made-to-measure mesh panel per side, fixed to the posts and beam with adhesive velcro. It works on attached, freestanding and louvred pergolas alike, because the fixing goes on the frame, never on the louvres.
How much does it cost for a 4-metre patio?
A four metre run on a covered alfresco is one made-to-measure large opening screen, from A$199.99, cut as several panels with magnetic splits wherever you want to walk through. If you only screen the doorway onto the deck, a stacker or a pair of French doors is a smaller job, from A$59.99 with the door screen. The product page shows the exact price for your width and height before you order.
The page that matches your project
Patio fly screens in an Australian house
Alfresco, deck, verandah or sunroom: what each one is, and what goes on it.
The alfresco under the main roof
The most common Australian setup is not a patio in the European sense at all. It is an alfresco: a paved area under the main roofline of the house, open on one or two sides, with the kitchen window looking onto it. That gives you a beam above and posts or walls at the sides, which is everything a fly screen needs. One made-to-measure panel per open side, stuck to the posts with adhesive strip, and the alfresco becomes a room you can sit in after dark from October to March. The large opening screen is the model for it, cut as several panels with magnetic splits so the path to the barbecue stays open.
The deck with nothing above it
A timber deck off the back of the house, with no roof and no posts, cannot be screened, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you a marquee. What you screen instead is the opening between the house and the deck. In most Australian homes that is a sliding stacker of two to four metres, and that is the case the large opening screen was designed for: the panels hang on the fixed frame, not on the moving door, so the stacker slides freely behind them all summer. A single sliding door or a pair of French doors is a job for the door screen instead, from A$59.99.
The verandah on posts
A Queenslander or a Federation home has a verandah on turned timber posts, and the logic is the same as the alfresco: posts and a beam, one panel per bay. The difference is the joinery. Nobody wants screws in a hundred-year-old post, and the adhesive strip is what makes the question go away. It holds on painted timber once the paint is sound, and it peels off without a trace when the house is repainted.
Renting, strata and who is allowed to drill
A large share of Australian households rent, and a growing share live under a strata scheme where the outside of the building is common property. In both cases a screen that is screwed to the frame means asking first and arguing about it at the end. A magnetic panel on adhesive strip needs no permission from anyone, and it moves out with you. If that is your situation, the detail is in our page on fly screens for rentals.
Heat, north-facing frames and salt air
Two practical notes for the climate. Fit the strip in the morning or the evening, not on an aluminium frame that has been in the midday sun, so the adhesive cures on a cool surface. And on a coastal house, wipe the frame with a damp cloth before fitting, because salt film is what stops adhesive from bonding. Once it is on, there is nothing else to look after: no spring, no track, no cassette, nothing for the salt to seize.
What the mesh stops, honestly
The 18x16 fibreglass weave is built for mosquitoes, houseflies and wasps, which is what ruins an evening outside in most of the country. Biting midges on some estuary and coastal stretches are small enough to get through a standard weave, and what stops them is a much finer mesh than we make. If midges rather than mozzies are your problem, that is the screen to look for, and we would rather say so than sell you the wrong one.
Off for winter
From April the panels come down in a minute each and lie flat in a cupboard, which is the other thing the frameless format is for. The strip stays on the posts, invisible, and the whole thing goes back up on the first warm evening in spring without a tool in sight.
Your patio could be used every single evening
Tell us what you have above your head, we take care of the rest.
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