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24/8/2015 at 11:00pm
Location: Sheffield
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Hi
After a lovely festival weekend in our new Guadeloupe the only thing that bugged me was....bugs....
On a hot evening, having the front unzipped for air meant that the tent filled with many flying creatures, most of which were harmless luckily, but it made me yearn for a proper flyscreen door.
Has anyone managed to make something of that kind to cover the door area? I would be interested to hear from owners who have done a nifty attachment using fly mesh.
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25/8/2015 at 8:52pm
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Anyone??
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26/8/2015 at 8:02am
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I haven't done one for our barbados, but why not have a removable one that is attached by velcro. You could use the velcro which sticks on one side. You would need little strips and just buy some netting material and hem it around. You could then just roll it up when not needed. Thats what i would do :)
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26/8/2015 at 9:04am
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Yes, I'd go for the Velcro method too.
Or...if you had some sort of tie loops already in place above the door, you could use a very light curtain rod threaded through these, with a tie on fly screen suspended from that. I made a fly screen from a garden cane and piece of net curtain one year in France, as an emergency mozzie defence mechanism. I tied the cane across the doorway to the same elastics that secured the front flap when it was rolled up. It didn't look very tidy, I could have done a much better job if I'd had proper sewing supplies and a sewing machine with me. But it worked okay.
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26/8/2015 at 10:43pm
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Hi, I made a curtain screen for my Noumea, the Guads smaller sister tent, I threaded it on to the pole that goes over the door before I put the legs on and had clip on weights at the bottom to weigh it down, it wasn't totally sealed but worked really well.
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28/8/2015 at 1:45pm
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ooo yes Fiona, that is a brilliant solution, a net curtain that threads onto the cross pole of the door...
Thanks everyone, I shall measure up and get sewing!
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01/9/2015 at 10:59pm
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Right.... Got the fabric from here
And I shall use adhesive Velcro to fasten it over the door pole. And on another thread, I saw these little magnets which could work for holding the edges to the tent canvas...... these
If we get some more camping trips in, I shall post pics of my efforts!
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