Mosquito Nets in Dubai

The word covers a couple of things. For most homes a mosquito net means netting fixed over a window or a door so the room can stay open to the air with nothing flying in. That is what we fit day in, day out. The other picture the word brings up is the net that drapes over a bed or a cot, the kind you might know from travelling. Both keep mosquitoes off you, but they do it in very different ways.

The fitted kind is the more useful for a home, because it guards the whole room rather than only the spot under the net. Once a window or a door is netted, you can move about the room, sleep, or leave the opening wide for the evening cool, and the mosquitoes stay outside the glass. Keeping mosquitoes out is partly comfort and partly health, since they carry much of what the World Health Organization follows, the wide group of vector-borne disease and dengue among it. The same product goes by other names too, fly screen and insect screen among them, set out on our insect screens page.

More nets land on windows than on anything else, since the window is what you crack open for air. There are two broad shapes to pick from. The first is a still panel that holds its place, fitting a window you seldom touch or one mounted high. The second travels with the sash, gliding or rising next to it, so a window worked every day keeps its full movement with the net there. Bedroom and kitchen openings almost always want the moving shape.

On top of those, a broad window may carry a twin-panel net closing at the centre, and a slider gets a net riding its own rail. The right one for each window is judged on the visit, because a net earns its keep only when it fits the gap and shuts tight at every edge. Our fly screens for windows page digs further into the window side.

A door net has to do something a window net does not: let you walk through it. So the forms are built around that. A magnetic net hangs as a light curtain that opens as you walk through and clicks closed on magnets behind, handy for a door you pass with full hands. A sliding net travels a rail set beside a sliding patio door. A roller net draws across and winds itself out of the way once you are through, leaving the doorway open.

Each answers a different door and a different habit. A busy kitchen-to-garden door pairs well with a magnetic net, while a main patio door leans towards a sliding or a roller form. We talk through how you use the door on the visit and match the net to that. Each door form gets fuller depth on our fly screens for doors page.

The hanging net over a bed or a cot is what some people have in mind, especially for a baby's room. It does keep mosquitoes off the child while they sleep, and there is nothing wrong with one. The catch is that it only protects the space inside the drape. Step out from under it, or let the net shift in the night, and the cover is gone, and a curious toddler can pull at a net that hangs within reach.

For a nursery or a bedroom we usually suggest netting the window instead, or as well. A fitted window net keeps the whole room clear of mosquitoes, so the child is safe wherever they are in it and the room still airs through the night. If you do want netting for a cot or a bed in particular, raise it at the measure and we will talk you through the choices for that room.

The mesh is the part you see through and the part the air crosses, so it merits a moment. Day to day, that means a fine fibreglass weave shaded grey or charcoal. Each holds a clear view and passes the breeze while stopping mosquitoes and flies at the weave. Charcoal sits back against the glass and lends a touch more daytime privacy, which suits a front-facing opening well.

A few spots want something other than the standard. A doorway near a pet suits a tougher pet-resistant net, and a tighter weave turns back the very smallest midges, at the cost of a slightly dimmer view. We bring swatches along so you can press each against the actual opening, and the whole range of netting lives on our mosquito mesh page.

It all begins with a free visit, after which we agree a slot, arrive at the home, and take each opening you want netted down to the millimetre, because a net seals only when it tracks the frame to the line. We move from one room to the next so none is overlooked, mark which openings move and which stay shut, and write up the form and the price for each. The visit carries no charge and no paperwork.

When it comes to mounting, the net rides on a strong double-sided strip in almost every job, leaving no drill marks on the window frame, the door surround or the wall behind. That strip stays put through the summer and comes away clean if a net is ever taken down, on aluminium and uPVC equally. Renters gain the most, since nets arrive and depart without a blemish and nothing to clear with a landlord.

Since the nets sit on tape, they peel away cleanly if you move home, redecorate or simply want one down for a while. Nothing is left behind on the frame. That is one of the quiet upsides of a tape fitting over a drilled one, and it is why so many tenants choose it.

Nets do take the odd knock over the years. If the mesh splits, a net falls from its track or a roller jams, on a net we supplied or one that was there when you arrived, we come and set it right rather than have you swap the lot. Nine times in ten a mend or new netting settles it for a fraction of a fresh net. There is no call-out fee, and our mosquito net repair and mesh replacement pages cover it.

Starting off takes a minute. Drop us a WhatsApp with the openings you want netted and the part of town you are in, and we will book a free measure to suit. The call is free and applies no pressure, so you can let us size things up and price it, then weigh the decision at your own pace.

On price, a fixed window net opens at AED 300, an openable one at AED 400, a double-sided one at AED 450 and a door net at AED 700, all before VAT, with the size and the form setting the final figure. A cot or bed net is priced on its own. Each opening is costed during the visit, so the total is plain long before a net is built. The moment you decide, our contact page gathers every line to us in one place.