Breeze Blinds

After having a broken hab door fly screen for months we decided to take a few days away in Chichester and get our door fly screen restrung
Mark from breeze blinds met me on site and promptly repaired our blind including a faulty roof blind for £100 would highly recommend him

Breeze Blinds Ltd is owned by Mark Osborne , who told me he has 30 years’ experience in the area of making and fitting blinds to yachts. I discovered his name from the forum as he had restrung a habitation door fly screen on a motorhome for a member.

In September 2025 my 3-year-old Horrex fly screen door fitted to my Adria Twin Supreme Fiat Ducato PVC broke whilst on holiday in Spain. The bottom strings in the channel appeared to have been deteriorating with the outer black casing threading to leave the white inner core, I had not noticed this. This meant the sliding part of the door would not retract into the frame. I was able to release the top and bottom strings by unclipping them from the top and bottom tracks where they are secured with little allen key fastening barrels which slot into recesses to keep the tension on the strings. All the remailing central strings of the door appeared intact.

I was able to contact Mark with details from his web site HERE and we communicated via text and email. To my delight he was located not too far from Portsmouth, at Chichester, the port where we would arrive upon our return. He said he could repair the door and he was also happy to come to us at the CAMC site at Winchester, where we had booked a ferry pitch, before we headed off on our way north.

On the morning after we docked, he arrived on time and carried out the repair which took the 2 hours he said it would. He explained the mechanism and gave advice on suitable silicone spraying of the parts necessary, which included not only the top and bottom channels, that I already regularly did, but the eyelets where the middle strings in the door netting went. This he said reduces the friction on those strings too and said they were also separate to the top and bottom ones on my door.

Given the usage of around 5 months a year he thought the string had lasted fairly well, when I must admit I was expecting such things to last the lifetime of the van, not become a consumable. He later invoiced me for his work, which cost a total of £125, and I paid him by bank transfer.

I am very happy with the work carried out and over the moon I was able to get it repaired at all and done without any difficulties to me. Mark did say he was happy to travel further to do repairs, and be home in the day, and had done many other repairs on similar motorhome doors. He just charged accordingly for his time and travel.

I had made enquiries via a friend with a long standing local motorhome dealer who said they had never repaired such a door before, couldn’t give any reassurance they could do it, and said if they could it would cost hundreds of pounds to do the work.

I now know, from trawling the MotorhomeFun forum that this is a problem other members have and mainly in cassette type motorhome doors. Some have managed to repair them themselves by restringing the netting but I would never personally have a go at doing that myself when I can access the services of Breeze Blinds, having seen Mark work.

My only other motorhome, a coach built Bessacarr, had a string jam in the first year and I had to cut it to retract the door. The dealer simply replaced the full cassette under warranty and I now suspect they didn’t have the staff with the expertise to re thread it. My door was an option on build by Adria and I think it cost £450 back then, but because it is not in a cassette I believe their staff would have to fit the 3 sides/tracks and tension the strings themselves for it to work, so not as simple as screwing in a factory made cassette.

I hope this is of help for other members who encounter problems like I did. The photos are my door having been repaired.

Regards
Roy