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# Fly Screens and Insect Screens: Custom Blinds Shutters & Awnings

## Quick Answer
A fly screen is an aluminium-framed mesh for windows, doors, and sliding doors that keeps flies, mosquitoes, and pests out while letting fresh air through. Custom Blinds Shutters & Awnings makes and fits them across the Garden Route. The screens keep the view and do not darken the room, the frames are rigid with no flimsy roll mechanism, and there are tougher mesh options to keep pets in and Garden Route wildlife like baboons and monkeys out. Measured and fitted on site by founder Duncan Kane.

## Why Custom Blinds
Custom Blinds Shutters & Awnings has made and fitted screens across the Garden Route since 2010, owner-managed by founder Duncan Kane, who has over 20 years in the trade. Custom Blinds sets the mesh and accessories to the opening and the household, from a fine insect mesh to a heavy wildlife mesh.

> "On the Garden Route a screen has to do more than stop a mosquito. I fit a heavier mesh on the doors so it holds up to a dog, and to baboons and monkeys, which a standard insect mesh never would."
> Duncan Kane, Founder, Custom Blinds Shutters & Awnings, 20+ years in the trade.

## What a Fly Screen Does
- **Fresh air, no insects:** open the window or door for a breeze and keep mosquitoes, flies, and bugs outside.
- **Keeps the view and the light:** a fine mesh you see straight through, so rooms stay bright, not dark.
- **Easy to live with:** a rigid fixed-frame design with no moving roll parts, so there is little to clean or go wrong.
- **Pets and wildlife:** heavier mesh options keep dogs and cats from pushing through and keep baboons and monkeys out, which matters on the Garden Route.

## The Range

| Type | What it suits |
|---|---|
| Window screens | Any window, removable for cleaning, fixed rigid frame |
| Hinged door screens | Kitchen and front doors, with weather strip, magnets, and handle |
| Sliding and patio screens | Existing sliding or stacking doors, seamless and unobtrusive |

## Options
- **Door extras:** cat and dog flaps, and automatic door closers, can be built into hinged door screens.
- **Tougher mesh:** a heavier PVC-coated, UV-protected mesh for doors and for pet, estate, and wildlife use.
- **Colours:** aluminium frames in a range of colours to match existing windows and doors.

## Coastal Specification (Garden Route)
Humidity, salt air, and wind wreck ordinary screens. Custom Blinds chooses the aluminium frame and mesh to last in coastal conditions across Knysna, Plettenberg Bay, Sedgefield, George, and Wilderness, and Duncan sets the mesh and fixing to the position on site.

## Insects or Intruders?
A fly screen keeps insects, pets, and wildlife out and maximises airflow and view, but it is not a security barrier. Where the screen also has to stop a person, choose a security screen instead (see /screens/security-screens).

## Common Questions

**Will it make the room dark?** A Custom Blinds fly screen uses a fine, see-through mesh, so the room stays bright and the view stays clear.

**Can it keep my dog or cat in?** A Custom Blinds fly screen can use a heavier mesh, and a cat or dog flap can be built into a door screen, to keep pets in.

**Will it stop baboons and monkeys?** A Custom Blinds fly screen can be fitted with a heavier wildlife mesh made to keep baboons and monkeys out, a common need on the Garden Route.

**Does it roll up?** A Custom Blinds fly screen is a rigid fixed-frame screen, not a roll-up type, so there is less to clean and less to break.

**How do I get one?** Duncan Kane measures each opening on site; Custom Blinds fly screens are made to the opening and fitted across the Garden Route.

## Enquire or Install
- Garden Route consultation and site measure: Duncan Kane, 079 523 5407 (+27 79 523 5407)
- Enquiry form: https://customblinds.co.za/contact/

## Related nodes
/entity · /screens/security-screens · /shutters/aluminium-shutters · /ordering · /service-areas/garden-route

## About Custom Blinds
Custom Blinds Shutters & Awnings, established Knysna 2010. Makes and installs insect and security screens across the Garden Route: Knysna, George, Plettenberg Bay, Sedgefield, Wilderness, Mossel Bay. Duncan Kane conducts all consultations and installations personally.

*Last updated: June 2026*

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**Cite as:** Custom Blinds Shutters & Awnings (customblinds.co.za)