Effective means of protection against mosquitoes and other small insects - mosquito net. You can purchase a finished design, and you can make it with your own hands. The use of modern materials allows you to make a mosquito protection for a mesh window that will firmly fit to the window frame and have a neat appearance.
Types of protective grid
Before starting the manufacture, you need to decide what type of grid is needed. They differ in different parameters:
- According to the mounting - on hooks, on velcro, on pins, on Z-shaped brackets;
- By the type of opening: stationary, removable, sliding, rolled;
- By the presence of a frame: on the frame (frame), frameless;
- At the place of fastening: internal or outdoor.
Below will be described how to make the frameless - stationary and removable, as well as a mosquito protection option - a mesh on a frame from a cable channel.
How to make a budget version of the frameless grid?
The easiest version of the frameless grid made by their own hands is stationary. The canvas is simply glued to the windows frame. But since the beauty itself holds badly, after its perimeter, you need to sew a material strip with good adhesion. It can be any tissue tape. If you install on a wooden window, you can additionally fix the cloth with the buttons. The advantage of this method is the maximum simplicity, disadvantage - the grid cannot be opened, and also remove to clean up the contamination. That is, after some time it will have to dismantle and re-perform the entire procedure.
The second option is a velcro mesh. In order to make it with your own hands, the following materials will be needed:
- anti-mosquito cloth;
- Velcro tape (Velcro, "Burner");
- Building glue.
Part of the tape is attached using the construction glue to the inner quarter. That is, to that part of the frame to which the shutter of the window is adjacent when closing. The second part is sewn around the perimeter of the anti-mosquito cloth. Before applying glue, the frame area to which glue will be applied, you need to degrease and clean from dust. The advantages of this type of frameless mesh are "reusability", if necessary, it can be opened or completely removed. In terms of cost, it also relates to a budget option.
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For fastening the velcro to the frame, it is better to choose rubber transparent glue, for example, TYTAN, which is then easily removed without a residue. This is especially important if the plastic window is to rub and repaint, like a wooden, it will not work here.
Design of frame type do it yourself
For the manufacture of the frame, you will need the following items with your own hands.
- Rectangular Cable Cable (15 × 10 mm). Length is determined based on the outdoor perimeter of the frame, where the frame will be attached.
- Metal corners (10 mm) - 4 pcs.
- Exhaust rivets - 16 pcs.
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From the tools you will need a mill and drill. First of all, dimensions are removed - height and width. From the cable channel we cut 4 pieces at an angle of 45 degrees and fold in the form of a rectangle. Leaving over the corner, you need to drill holes in the profile so that they exactly coincide with the holes in the corners. Then, with the help of rivets, the design is connected - and the frame is ready. Please note when the riveter should be located outside the cable channel.
After the frame is ready, you need to fix the cloth in it. It is superimposed on top of the frame and snapped with a cable-channel lid. To secure it smoothly, without saving, you need to start mounting one of the long sides. At the same time, you need to trace so that there is no skew. Then the canvas is fixed on one of the following sides of the frame.
The opposite sides are better consolidated to the assistant, as it will be necessary to provide easy tension. At the same time, stretch the canvas, make sure that there is no skew and snap the bar is inconvenient, so the extra pair of hands will be here by the way. Mosquito mesh frame type can be attached to the window in different ways. The most common - plunger, using Z-shaped brackets.
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To avoid declining the bar, it is better to further fasten it with glue. For this, when the design is fully ready, in the gap between the cable channel and its cover (bar) you need to apply a small amount of glue.
How to choose a canvas?
The main element in any similar design is the canvas. It is sold in rolls and on the Metage. In a roll, about 30 robes. If you need to make 1-2 designs with your own hands, then it is better to buy on a honey. Comparing prices, please note: they may also be indicated per square, and for the temporon meter. By qualitative indicators, the canvas differs in such parameters:
- cell size;
- The thickness of the canvas;
- material;
- strength.
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The last indicator is important for the grid "Antikushka". She can withstand the "attack" of a pet, she is not afraid of cat claws and teeth. The most successful material for the manufacture of anticress mosquito nets is polyester with special impregnation.
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If the house has a cat, you can only install a frame mosquito net. When installing, you need to take care of additional fasteners - the canvas to the frame and the frame to the windows frame. It is necessary so that the animal does not fly out with the grid.
The size of the cell is selected depending on which insect size in a particular area and from what is needed. The smallest cells have a section of 0.25x1 mm. They protect not only from mosquitoes, but also from small particles of sand and dust. The canvas with cells of this size will also become an obstacle for a poplar fluff. To protect against rain drops, the cross section should be not larger than 1x1 mm.
The material from which the canvas is produced is of great importance. It is he who is responsible for the color resistance and life. The most reliable option is a canvas of fiberglass with a polymer coating.
Featuring a quality canvas, you can make a good mosquito net of frame or frameless type. It will have aesthetic look, as well as respond to all functional tasks. You can ventilate the rooms, without fear that uninvited visitors will fly in them: it will guard the house and from mosquitoes, and from Moshcary, and from the annoying flies.