Fly Screens in Dubai Hills Estate

Dubai Hills was planned around its green, and that is what draws the insects. The central Dubai Hills Park runs through the middle of it, planted boulevards thread between the clusters, and there are water features and pools across the estate. All that irrigated greenery and standing water, sitting in the warm air, gives mosquitoes the calm, damp spots they breed in, and they drift toward the homes that ring the parkland. A green address is a pleasant one, but it is also one where the bugs turn up.

Holding them off is about health, not only comfort. A large share of what the World Health Organization monitors is spread by mosquitoes, the broad family of vector-borne disease and dengue among it. A fly screen lets the tall doors and the balconies stay open to the park air while mosquitoes and flies stop at the mesh, the reason so many homes in the estate run them.

Dubai Hills holds two kinds of home, and each calls for a different plan. In a villa or townhouse the openings are large and modern, so the wide sliding door to the garden suits a retractable screen that slides across and tucks away, or a sliding screen on a rail of its own, and a run of floor-to-ceiling glass is screened to its full height. A span too broad for one panel takes a pleated screen that draws flat and folds aside.

In an apartment the job is smaller but the idea is the same. The balcony door is the one residents most want screened, and a retractable or a light magnetic screen suits a tower balcony well, while the high-floor windows take fixed or openable screens. There is more to see on our retractable and magnetic pages.

The estate splits between villa clusters and apartment buildings, and the openings differ from one to the next. The villa side takes in modern homes with big glazing and garden doors, among them Club Villas, Fairway Vistas, Maple, Golf Place, Sidra and Parkways. The apartment side runs to towers and mid-rises looking over the park and the boulevards, among them Socio, Park Point, Acacia, Collective, Mulberry and Park Heights.

The home changes but the method holds. Wherever you are in the estate, we size up each opening that day and propose the screen type for each, then price a villa as a whole or an apartment by its openings. A townhouse in Sidra and a flat in Park Heights get the same custom-built treatment.

Dubai Hills Estate is one of the newer master communities in the city, laid out by Emaar around a central green spine, with the Dubai Hills Mall and an eighteen-hole golf course at its heart. It sits just off Al Khail Road, roughly midway between Downtown and the Marina, one reason families settle here and one reason we are over so regularly. The homes carry that newer planning: wide panes of glass, slim modern frames, open-plan rooms that run straight out to a terrace or a balcony. Those large contemporary openings are lovely for the light and the greenery, and they are precisely the ones that call for a screen, so the air off the park can come in without the insects that come with it.

It all comes down to the mesh, and the common choice is fine fibreglass in grey or charcoal. You look right through it, air moves freely, and it keeps the routine mosquitoes and flies out. Since so many homes here face the park, a clear outlook counts, and both shades hold one, with charcoal giving slightly more daytime cover. For most homes across the estate this everyday mesh is enough.

Two add-ons come up a lot. Quite a few owners in Dubai Hills have a pet cat or dog, where a sturdier pet-proof mesh stands up to the clawing far better. To stop the very smallest biting insects or fine grit, a tighter weave keeps more out, and we cover these at the measure, and the whole range sits on our mosquito mesh and insect screen pages.

It opens with a free site visit to take the sizes. We agree a slot, come by, and record each opening to be screened to the exact millimetre, since a custom screen seals only where it matches the frame. A villa usually has a long list of openings, so we go room by room and price the home in one; a flat is a quicker call with fewer to settle. Either way nothing is paid and nothing is signed on the day.

From there each screen gets built to your measurements and we return to put it up, generally inside four to eight working days. Each one mounts on strong double-sided tape, so no drilling and no mess, and a single screen takes minutes. A full villa fills a fitting day, an apartment is normally faster, and firm dates are set at booking to suit your week.

Nearly all our screens sit on strong double-sided tape in place of screws. Nothing is bored into the frame, the glass or the wall, and a screen lifts off leaving no sign of where it once sat. Made for the task, the tape holds firm right through the Dubai summer and keeps a panel sitting just as it was set, season after season.

For Dubai Hills that suits both kinds of home. On a modern villa, the frames are part of the look and an owner would rather they were not drilled. In a rented apartment, nothing is altered, so a lease can end with no question over a deposit, and the tower glazing is left untouched. Move a screen and it comes off cleanly, so you are never locked in.

Putting screens in is only half the job, since we keep them in order down the line as well. If a screen, ours or another company's, ends up with torn netting, a buckled frame, a jammed roller or a worn-out magnet, we come and put it right. A repair or a re-mesh usually covers it, costing well under a replacement, and with the estate nearby the visit is short.

That free visit covers a repair in the estate just as it does new work. Message us a photo showing the problem and we will reply with the fix and the price. There is more on our fly screen repair and mesh replacement pages.

Getting started is quick, helped by the short drive. The first move is simply a WhatsApp message giving your cluster or building and a rough tally of the windows and doors needing a screen. We then pick a measuring time to suit you, come to the home, and go from there. With Dubai Hills near our base, the measuring and the fitting both drop in easily.

On price, a fixed window screen begins at AED 300 and a door runs to AED 700, with the single and double window screens between them, every figure ahead of VAT and matching the rest of Dubai. The measure is without charge and the figure is agreed before any work, so it is clear from the start. Ready to go ahead? You will find every way to reach us on our contact page.