Changing netting in windows/roof vents for proper midge netting (1 Viewer)

[The Lobster]

So the main Heki vent in the habitation area of our Burstner has insect netting sufficiently small to keep midges out, but the windows and other smaller roof vents just have standard insect netting - find for flies, mosquitoes but no good for Scottish midges.

I've ordered some >3000 holes/square inch netting from here which seems to fit the bill, but how easy it it do dissemble roof/window screens and replace the netting? If this is infeasible and too difficult I'll just velcro the screen around the frame.... any other ideas? Thanks.

 

[Just smiffy]

I had to repair my netting on a small kitchen window as an end came away so no new netting required but when I took it apart I noticed it would have been relatively easy to do, the only tricky bit was to get the spring loaded roller back together so it had tension....

Good luck...

 

[Foxy1956]

We used to spray the netting with Smidge, this worked well in midge infested Kinlochleven.

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[The Lobster]

We used to spray the netting with Smidge, this worked well in midge infested Kinlochleven.

That's a good idea... Did that work with normal insect netting!

 

[Foxy1956]

That's a good idea... Did that work with normal insect netting!

We used net curtains and it worked well. We also have an electric anti midge spray which works well.

 

[The Lobster]

So the midge netting turned up - fantastic stuff. It also turned out that all the roof vents were very easy to disassemble from the inside, and had a neat mechanism for tensioning their netting roller springs before putting them back. Replacing the vanilla insect netting with midge netting was straightforward - now let them try! I got some smidge as backup... and used the spare midge netting to make a door curtain (velcro top/left side and rubber weights to keep it reasonably straight).

So can't recommend http://www.midgie.net/netting.htm enough. They're a Scottish company and seem to know their midges

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[Foxy1956]

So the midge netting turned up - fantastic stuff. It also turned out that all the roof vents were very easy to disassemble from the inside, and had a neat mechanism for tensioning their netting roller springs before putting them back. Replacing the vanilla insect netting with midge netting was straightforward - now let them try! I got some smidge as backup... and used the spare midge netting to make a door curtain (velcro top/left side and rubber weights to keep it reasonably straight).

So can't recommend http://www.midgie.net/netting.htm enough. They're a Scottish company and seem to know their midges

Wow! Death to all midges.