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Building flyscreens on windows

Headley

Headley

BigRed Kunce
Hey guys,

Moving upstairs at the gym into a big queenslander house. Has lots of windows with no flyscreens but there are a lot of bloody mossies and midgees flying around so need to get some screens made.

Gonna grab some of the following:

https://www.bunnings.com.au/rolltrak-spares-11mm-clear-fly-screen-clip-offset-100-pack_p3962160

So with a bag of them, a bag of these: https://www.bunnings.com.au/rolltrak-spares-25mm-fly-screen-corner-stake-50-pack_p3962159
And the arm holes:
Some lengths of this: https://www.bunnings.com.au/screen-insect-frame-coolaroo-25mmx2-5m-bronze-466121_p4110463
Some flyscreen: https://www.bunnings.com.au/cyclone-1830mm-fibreglass-insect-screen-lineal-metre_p4112132
Some spline: https://www.bunnings.com.au/cyclone-tufflite-5mm-x-6-5m-prepacked-insect-screen-spline_p4110376 (being the right thickness of course)
And a roller: https://www.bunnings.com.au/cyclone-tufflite-plastic-spline-roller_p4114558
 
To be honest fly screens are pretty cheap to get made and it's hardly worth making them yourself, I used to make them and fit them as a job when I was about 17 or 18, and when we build our house recently I got a quote, and decided it's not even worth doing yourself (and I still have the tools and some materials in my shed) and I paid someone to do them and fit them for me, I even got the pet proof and fire/ember proof ones as I am in a bush fire region and the price was pretty cheap.

There is a bit of a knack to making them as well, if you have not done it before you will stuff a few before you get one rights as the frames are flimsy and deform easily when fitting the actual mesh.

And I am the sort of person that will do most things himself, I just completed about 300 meters of fencing as I could not justify paying someone to do it.
 
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