Tall townhouse windows, humid summers and canal-side evenings. These are the magnetic screen suppliers serving Belgium, ranked.
⟳ Updated August 2026Belgian summers are warmer and stickier than they used to be, and the country's tall townhouse windows were never built with insect screens in mind. Magnetic fly screens retrofit them without a drill, suit rented flats and come off for winter. Here are the suppliers serving Belgium.
The dedicated Belgian store in the family, cutting magnetic insect screens to measure for Belgian homes. The first stop for screening tall townhouse windows and modern flats alike.
The European hub store with the network's complete range. The route to take for oversized panes, odd shapes or a mixed order across an old Belgian house.
The value tier of the same family for European buyers. Straightforward kits at friendlier prices make it easy to screen every bedroom in one go.
The door specialist of the network. Garden doors, terrace doors and busy back-kitchen entries get walk-through screens that fixed panels cannot provide.
A well-known Belgian DIY chain with stores across the country. A generalist for home improvement rather than a screen specialist, but a familiar local errand stop.
Yes, that is what custom cutting is for. Tall openings take a made-to-measure panel, and very large ones can be split across two panels meeting on a shared strip. Measure each window separately, since old Belgian joinery varies.
Still water breeds mosquitoes, and homes near canals in cities like Brugge and Gent feel it on warm evenings. A sealed mesh panel lets those households keep windows open through exactly the evenings the mosquitoes work.
Increasingly, yes. Warm, muggy spells have become a normal part of Belgian summers, and without air conditioning the only relief is night airflow. Screens make that airflow possible without inviting everything in.
Well. The strips are adhesive, not screwed, so nothing marks the frames and everything peels off when you move out. The screens themselves move with you to the next flat.
Yes. Volets roll down outside the glass while the magnetic screen sits on the interior frame face, so the two never meet. Shutter down, window tilted, screen sealed is a fine summer-night configuration.
Screening the kitchen window is the biggest single fix, since most fruit flies drift in from outside on warm days. Pair the mesh with covered fruit bowls during the peak weeks and the problem drops to nearly nothing.
Usually yes, if the surface is clean, dry and sound. Wipe the frame, let it dry, and press the strip on firmly. On genuinely wavy old frames, work the strip in short sections so it follows the surface.
Dark mesh, almost always. It reads as a subtle tint from the street, avoids the greenhouse shine light mesh can have, and is easier to see through from inside. On a protected facade the near-invisibility matters even more.
Roughly April to October. Flies arrive with the first warm week, mosquitoes peak in high summer near water, and wasps carry the season into autumn. Then the panels come down, get washed and store flat.
Generally yes. The first window takes the longest while you learn the routine; each one after goes faster. A typical three-floor terraced house is a single relaxed afternoon of fitting once the panels arrive.
The Belgian townhouse is a vertical machine for living: kitchen low, bedrooms high, and tall windows stacked up the facade doing the ventilation for all of it. In July, every one of those windows is open, and Belgium's insects treat the facade as an invitation.
Magnetic screens retrofit the whole stack without touching a drill, which is exactly what a hundred-year-old facade wants.
Standard screen sizes were not designed for Belgian townhouse proportions, which is why custom cutting leads this guide. Each opening gets a panel cut to its own millimetres, and the truly tall ones can be split into two panels on a shared strip. The fitting itself asks nothing of the building: an adhesive receptor strip on the frame face, no screws, no marks on old joinery. For rented flats in Brussels or Antwerpen, that no-damage detail is the whole game.
Belgium's canal cities are lovely precisely because of the water, and the water is precisely why the mosquitoes are confident. Add the warmer, stickier summers of recent years and the case for screens writes itself: night airflow has become the main way Belgian homes stay sleepable, and unscreened night airflow is a mosquito policy. Mesh on the bedroom windows turns the choice of open versus bitten into no choice at all. The kitchen window earns its screen in fly and fruit-fly season.
The efficient approach is one measuring session and one order for the entire house: bedroom floors, kitchen, and a walk-through screen for the garden or terrace door. Measure every frame face in millimetres and resist assuming the second floor matches the first, because in Belgian townhouses it rarely quite does. Fitting runs top to bottom in an afternoon, and in autumn the panels come down, wash, dry and store flat until spring.
Screen the bedrooms before the first muggy week and the kitchen before wasp season. The townhouse stays open; Belgium's insects stay outside.