Mild summers, open windows, and every fly in the townland heading for the kitchen. The magnetic screen suppliers serving Ireland, ranked.
⟳ Updated August 2026Ireland never bothered with window screens, because the summers seemed too mild to need them. Then every warm evening ends with flies in the kitchen and moths around the lamp. Magnetic fly screens fix it without drilling, which suits Irish rentals and period homes perfectly. This guide ranks the suppliers serving Ireland.
The Irish flagship: custom magnetic screens cut to your measurements and fitted without a screw, suiting uPVC estates and older timber frames alike.
The value tier for Ireland: simple kits and quick fitting, priced so screening a whole flat or house is a small project rather than a big one.
The budget tier for Irish homes: the lowest-cost route to screening every window that opens, in the same no-drill magnetic format.
The door specialist for Ireland: walk-through screening for the back door that stands open all summer, on farms and in townhouses alike.
Ireland's DIY chain stocks basic insect screen kits and mesh seasonally in stores and online. The walk-in option for standard sizes and quick fixes.
Yes, this is the renter's format. The adhesive receptor strip fits without drilling and peels off cleanly at end of tenancy, so there is nothing for a landlord to object to and nothing for a deposit inspection to find.
Flies are the main event, especially near farms and bins in summer, plus moths at lit windows, wasps in autumn and the general parade of things that follow warmth indoors. Screens turn an open Irish window from an invitation into a view.
A sealed screen blocks the classic autumn spider route through open windows. Spiders can still arrive by other paths, but households with screens notice far fewer eight-legged lodgers in September and October.
Perfectly. Estate uPVC gives the adhesive strip a clean flat face, making these the fastest installations in the country. Most estate windows are close to standard sizes, but measure each one anyway.
No. Mesh and magnetic strip both shrug off moisture, and the screen lives on the frame face where rain rarely reaches. The damp Irish climate is far harder on timber and paint than it is on a fly screen.
The Irish store serves the island; check the delivery options at checkout for your county. Orders ship domestically rather than from overseas, which keeps timings short and returns simple.
Yes. Screens lift off in seconds and fresh receptor strip for the new house costs little. Renters moving between similar estate houses often find their existing screens fit the new windows with no changes at all.
Barely. Standard mesh reads as a very light tint, and on a grey Irish day the difference is hard to perceive. If maximum light matters, remove screens for the winter months when the insects are gone anyway.
Enormously. Rural kitchens near livestock get the worst fly pressure in Ireland, and a screened window plus a walk-through screen door transforms them. The kitchen stays ventilated for cooking while the flies stay with the cattle.
Yes, and it is one of the best windows to do. Bathroom windows stay open for ventilation more hours than any other, which makes them a favourite insect entrance. A small screen costs little and works around the clock.
Ireland's relationship with the open window is complicated. The mild summer makes open windows the only air conditioning the country needs, but every warm evening imports flies to the kitchen, moths to the lamp, and, come autumn, spiders with opinions about your skirting boards. Screens never became an Irish habit. They deserve to be.
The magnetic format suits Ireland unusually well, and here is why.
A huge share of Irish households cannot drill into their window frames, either because a landlord owns them or because the frames are older than the state. Magnetic screens sidestep the whole problem: an adhesive strip on the frame face, a mesh panel that snaps to it, and clean removal whenever needed. Deposits stay intact, sash frames stay unpierced, and the screens move house with you. For estate uPVC the fitting is measured in minutes per window.
Ireland's problem is not tropical: it is flies through the summer, peaking near farms and warm bins, moths on lit windows through late summer, wasps as the fruit ripens, and the September spider promenade. Standard mesh handles all of it. The windows that matter most are the ones that stay open longest: the bathroom window airing round the clock, the kitchen window over the sink, the bedroom window on a warm night. Screen those first and the household's insect traffic drops to almost nothing.
Rural Ireland knows the real front line is the back door, standing open from breakfast to dark all summer. No fixed mesh survives that traffic, which is what walk-through magnetic door screening is for: it parts for people, buckets and dogs, then closes itself behind them. Pair it with a screened kitchen window and the busiest room in the house finally gets ventilation without the livestock's entourage. Order door and window screens together and the whole house is done in a weekend.
No drill, no deposit drama, no flies on the dinner. Ireland does not need screens often, but on the evenings it needs them, it really needs them. The suppliers above have the island covered.