Retractable screens
Pull the mesh over a patio door, then let it wind back into a slim cassette when you head out to the garden. A favourite on the doors that face the lake. More on retractable fly screens.
The Springs · Dubai
Fly Screens in The Springs
Slide the patio doors open to the garden and the lake beyond, let the breeze through the townhouse, and keep mosquitoes and midges out. Custom fly screens, made and fitted throughout The Springs, on every townhouse type and the larger semis, by the water and back from it.
- For every Springs townhouse type, each door and window cut to measure
- Fixed with tape, so no holes and no damage to an owned or rented home
- Fine mesh that stops the midges off the water getting indoors
- Free measurement anywhere in The Springs, with no obligation
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Screens on real Springs townhouses
A few quick clips of our screens on Springs townhouses, by the lake and indoors. Tap one to watch.
1,200+Homes fitted since 2017
2017Serving the UAE
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Screen Types For Springs Townhouses
The screens that suit a townhouse
The Springs is a community of townhouses and small villas built around its lakes, with patio doors, compact gardens and upstairs windows. These are the screens that go up most often on homes here.
Sliding panel screens
A mesh panel that runs in a track next to a sliding patio door and moves with one hand. Right for the wide rear openings a townhouse tends to have. See sliding door fly screens.
Door screens
Screens for a townhouse front door or the door out to the garden, cut to size and bonded on so the door keeps its look. More on fly screens for doors.
Magnetic screens
Two panels that snap shut on a magnetic seam, closing behind you with nothing across the threshold. Handy on the kitchen door. More on magnetic fly screens.
Window screens
Each frame gets its own screen, fixed or opening, for the upstairs bedrooms that look over the lake or the street. See fly screens for windows.
Pleated screens
Soft folds draw the mesh aside, a tidy fit for a wide living-room opening onto the water. See pleated fly screens.
Around The Townhouse
Where screens go in a Springs home
A Springs townhouse lives towards the back, where the garden and the lake are. These are the openings where a screen lets you keep the house open instead of shut.
Lakeside patio doors
The sliding doors at the back, onto the small garden and the water, are the ones that matter most. A sliding or retractable screen keeps them open to the evening while the midges off the lake stay outside. Related sliding door fly screens.
Upstairs bedroom windows
The bedrooms upstairs are where the lake or street view is, and where a window left ajar at night lets insects in. A fixed or openable screen on each keeps the room airing without them. See window fly screens.
Front and kitchen doors
The front door and the kitchen door both take a screen, so the townhouse can breathe at either end without flies drifting in each time someone steps out. More on door screens.
Living-room glass onto the water
Many Springs homes open the living room to the lake through a wide glazed run. A pleated or panel screen covers the span so you can have the doors open and the view without the bugs.
Compact townhouse gardens
The gardens here are small and well used, right on the water in many homes. Screening the doors onto them means the family can sit out at dusk, when the midges are worst, with the house still open behind them.
Kitchens and utility
The kitchen door and any utility opening are simple to cover. A fixed or magnetic screen on them leaves the working end of the townhouse free of insects through the warmer months.
Why Choose Us In The Springs
Made for a lakeside community
Living by the water is the whole appeal of The Springs, and it brings its own insect load. We fit screens with the lakes in mind, and we already know the townhouses inside out.
We know the Springs types
Built by Emaar to just a few repeating designs, the community holds few surprises, so we already know your townhouse patio doors and window runs and can put the right screens on quickly.
Made for life by the water
The lakes and the planting around them draw midges and mosquitoes, worst at dusk. A fine, close mesh keeps them off the glass while the breeze off the water still comes through.
No drilling, no damage
Screens here are fixed with strong tape, not screws, so an owned townhouse keeps its finish and a let one keeps its deposit. Nothing goes into the frame and the lot peels away cleanly.
Three systems to pick from
Most suppliers carry one mechanism; we keep three on hand, so the gear behind the screen answers to the door and to the budget rather than the other way round.
Genuinely free measure
No charge for the call-out, and nothing to put your name to. We size each opening, let you see the mesh against the light off the lake, and set a firm price before a thing is made.
Repairs as well as new
Has a screen in your Springs townhouse ripped or jumped its track? We can repair and re-mesh it, even one that another firm put in. More on fly screen repair.
Springs Pricing
Clear starting prices
Each screen is cut to a single opening, so the price tracks the size and the system selected. The figures below make sensible starting points for Springs townhouses, ahead of the five percent VAT.
Fixed window panelSlim fixed panel for a window kept shut
from AED 300
Single opening windowOne opening screen for an upstairs bedroom window
from AED 400
Wide or twin window screenA two-panel screen for a wide window or a narrow patio door
from AED 450
Patio and garden doorsWide lakeside sliding doors and townhouse main doors
from AED 700
A wide patio slider runs to more than one upstairs window, as size and system set the figure. The full price is agreed at the free measure, with nothing added afterwards. Pay by cash or online.
Step By Step
How a Springs job runs, start to finish
The same straightforward path for a two-bedroom townhouse or a larger semi.
1
Free measurement
Message your Springs address and a suitable time on WhatsApp. We come over, take the measurements of every opening at the townhouse ourselves, and talk you through the screen and mesh suited to each. It costs nothing and there is no pressure to buy.
2
Made to your size
We then build each one to those measurements, in whichever system and mesh colour you chose. They are made to order rather than pulled from stock, so reckon on four to eight working days.
3
Fitted with no drilling
Finally we come back and install, fixing each screen to the frame with a tough tape and no screws at all, about fifteen minutes for a typical opening. With nothing drilled, the townhouse looks exactly as it did before.
Where We Work
The Springs and the rest of the UAE
We are out in The Springs regularly, and we work right across Dubai and the rest of the UAE besides. Close by you will find us fitting screens in JVC and Dubai Hills, and the full list sits on our services page.
Recent Work
Screens fitted around The Springs
A few screens from recent jobs on townhouses around The Springs.
A Community Around Water
What a Springs townhouse asks of a screen
The thing that defines The Springs is the water. Emaar laid the community out around a chain of lakes, and the townhouses are arranged so that as many as possible look onto them. It is what gives the place its calm, and it is also what brings the insects. A lake is standing water with greenery around it, which is exactly what mosquitoes and midges need to breed, and on a still evening they lift off the surface in numbers. Homes right on the water feel it most, but nowhere in the community is far from a lake, so putting a screen on the openings you actually use is the simple way to keep the view and lose the bites.
The other thing that helps a Springs job go smoothly is how the community was built. The houses come from a small set of Emaar townhouse types, repeated street after street, so the patio doors, the upstairs window runs and the awkward corners are familiar to us. We have screened the same layouts many times, which means we can usually tell you what your home needs before we arrive and put a sensible package together fast. We still measure every opening on the day, because a tape and a careful eye beat an assumption, but the groundwork is already done.
Then there is the question of keeping the home as it is. The Springs is freehold, so some owners live in their townhouses for years while plenty of others are let to families, and in both cases nobody wants holes drilled in the property. Our screens answer that by gripping the inner frame on a strong tape, with nothing screwed in and nothing left behind when they come off. An owner keeps the value of the house intact, a renter keeps the deposit safe, and in both cases the screens sit neatly at the glass and leave the lake view clear. Send your address and we will bring samples by and measure up at no cost.
There is a rhythm to The Springs that suits screens well. People here tend to stay, walking the loops around the lakes in the evening, gathering at the Springs Souk and the Pavilion, raising children who cycle between the houses. The trees planted twenty-odd years ago have filled out, the streets feel green and shaded, and life runs as much in the gardens and on the doorsteps as it does indoors. A home you can leave open, doors back and windows up, without surrendering it to insects fits that life exactly. That is what a good screen quietly delivers: the lake air and the evening cool inside, the midges and mosquitoes left out on the water where they belong. One quirk of the Springs layout is worth a mention. The townhouses are terraced, sharing side walls with their neighbours, so each home really only opens at the front and the back. That puts the weight on the rear doors onto the lake or the landscaping and the windows above them, which is where we concentrate the screens. End and corner units gain an extra side elevation, and the lake-facing rows tend to ask for a little more at the back than the road-facing ones. We work to however your particular townhouse sits.
The Springs Screen Guide
Points worth settling before you screen a Springs townhouse
Straightforward pointers for life by the lakes, covering the midges on the water and renting in an Emaar community.
The Springs runs on a limited range of Emaar townhouse designs, and the screen list follows the design. A smaller two-bedroom home is mainly the rear patio door and a few upstairs windows, well covered by a sliding or retractable screen at the back and window screens above. A larger semi adds a wider living-room opening and more windows. Wherever your home sits in the range, the principle holds: an opening screen where the family goes in and out to the garden, a fixed one on the windows that mostly stay closed.
This is the question we are asked most around the community, and the answer is the water. The very lakes that draw people to The Springs are also breeding grounds, since mosquitoes and midges thrive on standing water with planting at its edge. At dusk they rise off the surface and head for the lit, open doors of the houses nearby. A home backing onto a lake notices it sharply, but even a few streets back the pressure is higher than on a dry inland road. You cannot move the lake, and you would not want to, so the fix is to screen the openings you use and enjoy the water from behind the mesh.
The view of the water is half the reason people choose The Springs, so a screen that blocked it would defeat the point. It does not have to. The mesh is a fine netting you see straight through, and in a dark shade it reads as almost nothing against the lake and the greenery beyond. We keep the frame slim and finish it close to your glazing so it sits quietly at the edge of the glass. Bring your questions to the free measure and we will hold samples against your own outlook over the water, so you can see for yourself how little the screen shows before you choose.
The rear patio doors are the openings that earn a screen their keep in a Springs townhouse, leading out to the small garden and the lake. The gardens are compact, so the screen needs to be neat and out of the way when it is open. A retractable screen that disappears into a cassette suits a hinged door, while a sliding panel on its own runner matches a sliding door and a pleated screen handles a particularly wide opening. We tension the mesh so it holds steady in the breeze off the water and set the track so the screen moves with a finger.
Screens use different running gear, and in a family townhouse the tilt is towards the tough on the doors and the light on the windows. Our three system families, made in Germany, Italy and Turkey, let the mechanism suit the opening instead of one type going on throughout. A busy rear patio door the children use all day calls for a strong, smooth runner; a still upstairs window is happy with something plainer. At the measure we lay out the sensible choices for each opening, each with its own price, and put the differences in plain words so the call is yours.
The Springs is freehold, so the homes split between long-term owners and families renting, and both groups care about the same thing: not marking the property. A tenancy will rarely allow drilling, and an owner does not want holes in a house they may sell, so a fixing that needs neither makes sense for everyone. Our screens are bonded to the inner frame on a strong tape, which leaves nothing screwed in, nothing showing and nothing to make good when they come off at the end of a lease. The home stays exactly as it was, and the insect protection is full whichever way you hold the keys.
Living near a lake means a touch more damp in the air and a few more insects, but it asks nothing unusual of a screen beyond an occasional clean. An occasional wipe of the mesh, and a brush of the runner, keeps a sliding or retractable screen moving sweetly. Should anything wear with time, a stiff track, a loose panel, a tired roller, it is nearly always worth mending rather than scrapping, and we re-mesh and re-hang screens of any make, ours or not. More on our repair service and mesh replacement.
The year in The Springs has two halves, and a screen matters in both. From about October to April the weather is the reason people came, and a townhouse wants its doors and windows open to the cool air off the lakes. That is exactly when the midges gather at dusk, so a screen is what lets you keep the home open of an evening instead of sealed up. Through the hot months the doors stay shut more, yet the early mornings and late nights still tempt you to air the place, and the humidity hanging over the water carries mosquitoes with it. A short, dusty spell in spring is the other thing the lakes pull in, and a fine mesh keeps the worst of it off the sills too. A screen, in other words, earns its keep right across the calendar, not in one season alone.
Why It Matters
Good for comfort and for health
Screens are as much a health measure as a comfort. The World Health Organization lists window and door screens among the everyday steps that shut out disease-carrying mosquitoes. The lakes that make The Springs so pleasant also hand mosquitoes a place to breed, so a screen lets you open the townhouse to the breeze off the water without inviting them in. The same thinking runs through guidance on illnesses such as dengue, where keeping bites down at home is a wise routine.
Springs Questions
Frequently asked questions
The questions we field most from Springs residents ahead of a free measure.
Yes. We work right across The Springs, every townhouse type from the smaller two-bedroom homes to the larger semis, near the lakes and back from them. Since the whole place was laid out by Emaar to a few repeating designs, we can usually anticipate the patio doors and windows your home has, which makes the job quick and the fit exact. Send us your Springs address and we will drop by to measure free of charge, with no obligation to order after.
It is mostly the water. The Springs is built around man-made lakes, and standing water with planting around it is where mosquitoes and midges breed. Homes near a lake notice it most, particularly at dusk when the midges lift off the water, but the whole community sees more than a dry, inland street would. The lakes are a big part of what makes The Springs lovely to live in, so the sensible answer is not to drain them but to put screens on the openings you use, and enjoy the water without the bites.
Yes, and that is the whole idea. The mesh is a finely woven netting you look straight through, and in a dark shade it all but vanishes against the water and the greenery, so the lake stays in full view from the living room or the bedroom above. A narrow aluminium frame in a tone near your glazing keeps it discreet against the glass. We bring colour samples to the free measure so you can weigh them against your own outlook over the lake before deciding.
It turns on how the door opens. For a sliding patio door we generally use a sliding panel on its own runner; for a hinged one, a retractable screen that winds back into a slim cassette when idle. Either opens the back of the townhouse to the garden and the lake on a warm night with insects shut out, and either folds away to leave the doorway clear. We check your door at the free measure and point you to the screen that fits.
We do. The Springs was built by Emaar from a set of standard townhouse types, repeated across the community, so we have measured and screened the same layouts many times over. That means we usually know the size of your patio doors, the run of your upstairs windows and the tricky spots before we even arrive, and we can suggest a screen package that suits your particular type. It makes the measure quicker and the quote more accurate, though we still check every opening on the day to be sure.
Yes, and it suits both. The Springs is a freehold community, so some homes are owner-occupied and many are rented, and neither owners nor tenants want holes drilled in the property. We hold every screen on a strong double-sided tape, with nothing screwed into the frame and nothing that cannot be taken off cleanly later. An owner keeps the townhouse in good order, a renter safeguards the deposit, and the insect protection is identical either way.
As a rough guide, a fixed screen starts near 300 dirhams, an opening window screen around 400, and a door from 700, with the five percent VAT on top. Springs townhouses often have wide patio doors and a run of upstairs windows, so a large lakeside slider runs to more than one upstairs window. Each opening is measured and priced free in advance, so the whole cost is clear before we begin, and nothing is added later.
Yes to both. We take on repairs and re-meshing for screens already fitted, whoever put them in first, so a torn panel or one knocked off its runner is set right rather than replaced. And since The Springs sits within Emirates Living, we cover the neighbouring communities just as readily, from The Meadows and The Lakes to The Views. Send a photo of yours over on WhatsApp and we will tell you plainly what the repair involves.
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