do you have a fly screen at home that looks a little like this? either from
wear-and-tear or pets! if you do... wait right there I'm going to show you how to
easily replace your fly screen with a pet mesh, a stronger product let's get into it
so to remove the fly screen, open up your sliding window, lift it up and remove it
you've either got pull tabs on your flyscreen,
or just lift it up at the top - comes away at the bottom,
wiggle it side to side and remove it. So find out where your spline starts,
it's here, and just pull that out remove it all the way around.
so sit your spline to the side, remove the old mesh, that's going in the bin
probably 20 years of dust in there, now this is the product that I found this is what we'll try.
It's from Cyclone that's called pet mesh, it's got a little picture of a doggy on it, claims it's six times
stronger than a standard mesh! Now does the picture of the dog does that tell us
that this can withstand and overweight labrador running at your flyscreen
or is it more just suited to a little kitten climbing up and chasing bugs
I'd be interested to know! if you've used this product before comment down below
let us know does it handle the abuse from a dog or is it just a slightly stronger product
Layout your flyscreen mesh with about 50 mm or 2 inches of overhang all the way around the window frame
in the name of being resourceful
let's reuse the spline because it's an okay condition that's not perished and
it's not brittle rather than throwing it and tip and buying a new product we'll reuse it
Start by pushing it right into the corner there
it'll be interesting to see if we can use a standard size spline or whether we
need to go to a slightly smaller profile it's proving to be quite tight going into
that same channel what you can do is you can cheat a little bit with spline
that's too thick, and you can actually pull it a little bit and by stretching
your spline it narrows its diameter so let's do that
it's definitely a thicker product you can see how it's so much more durable...Wow!
push it in around the corner there try not to... Well actually, i was gonna say
try not to rip it with your screwdriver but if it's as durable and strong as
they say it is you shouldn't have a problem
my $3 spline roller is barely strong enough to get that in there
Oh.. running repairs!
it's at about this point on being very mindful because this is quite a strong
product and the window frame we're putting it on or the screen frame we're
putting on is quite flimsy quite thin, it's got a tendency to draw it in at the
sides, like bow it in or buckle it in, just because of the tension that the
screen is putting on the aluminium. so try not to pull your screen too taut but
we also don't want it to be baggy it's a bit of a fine line sometimes it's trial
and error and you've got to maybe do it once or twice to get it right
you can see how much we've stretched that spline, pulling it taut to narrow the
diameter, just to try and fit it in that spline groove with this thicker product
I'm not really happy with that shape just there it seems to be a little loose
so I'm gonna pull that spline out pull that screen a little bit taut as I roll that spline back in there
now to trim off the excess have your knife at about
a 45 degree angle just resting on top of that spline
and just work your way around the window like that
cutting off the excess and it leaves you with a nice clean line
I got to say that was harder than I thought it would be to use this product and get it into those
spline channels and reuse the existing spline next time I think I'd shell out
the extra $10 or whatever and get a smaller diameter spline which is that rubber
Just to make life easier. My $3 spline roller - it's a sad day - that's cactus!
but that'll teach me for buying a $3 one right I think it's a little darker than
a standard flyscreen mesh but there's no problem seeing through it.
so I've just hung up a standard mesh obviously there's a gap there that's natural light
and that's the pet mesh so you can see how this pet mesh being a thicker
product is actually quite a bit darker but you know what for the bedroom I
don't think that's going to be a problem it might even stop that Morning Sun from
heating up the bedroom just that little bit you know a little bit of UV
protection a little bit of shade I think that's going to work well
the holes are definitely bigger and the material is definitely thicker I think now is the
time to have a beer sit back and relax watch the cat do its best and the cat
won't get out and the bugs won't get in hopefully this video was helpful if it
was give it a thumbs up I'll see you on the next video