Choosing The Right Insect Mesh

A fly screen, or insect mesh is used in a wide variety of environments to keep insects such as flies and mosquitos from being able to access a building. Insect mesh can be made out of a number of materials including stainless steel, aluminium, fibreglass and plastic. Dependent on the purposes that you need to use a fly screen for, certain materials will be more suitable for the job than others.

For some people, they might simply choose to install insect mesh in their home to avoid the annoyance of flies buzzing around loudly, preventing people from sleeping and trying to land on food. In many cases, a fly screen is installed mainly for hygienic reasons. As many insects are capable of carrying an enormous amount of germs as well as diseases, people do not want them near their food. In the food preparation industry, insect mesh is absolutely essential as they must adhere completely to food hygiene regulations. A kitchen that allows flies near food, cooked or uncooked would be seen as failing to uphold appropriate hygienic conditions.

Whilst most insect mesh will prevent house flies from entering a building, a soffit mesh with the smallest possible aperture is needed to keep out insects such as mosquitos. Mosquitos can carry disease, so many people choose to install stainless steel woven mosquito soffit mesh in order to keep them and most other common insect pests out. As well as flies and mosquitos, soffit mesh can also be used to keep pests such as wasps, as well as birds and small rodents from accessing a loft and becoming a nuisance. To do this, strong soffit vent mesh can be fastened underneath guttering.

The main things to take into consideration when choosing a fly screen or insect mesh are how long is the mesh expected to last and is there a chance of insect mesh being vandalised, or damaged by pets. For the longest lasting insect mesh, stainless or aluminium mesh are probably the right choice as they are ideal for use indoors or outdoors and are extremely hard wearing. For a cheaper option, fibreglass or plastic insect mesh may be more suitable, however, fibreglass can be easily damaged or ripped.

For a fly screen that is likely to be vandalised, or damaged by pets, soffit mesh is the best choice as it is strong enough to keep out mice, rats and other small rodents in addition to flies.

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