Big Dutch windows, water in every direction and muggen at midnight. These are the magnetic screen suppliers serving the Netherlands.
⟳ Updated August 2026The Netherlands knows insect screens: horren are a normal Dutch word for a reason. What magnetic screens add is a hor that needs no frame, no drill and no permission from the landlord. For a country of big windows, water everywhere and persistent bedroom muggen, that is a useful upgrade. Here are the suppliers.
The dedicated Dutch store in the family, cutting magnetic screens to measure for Dutch windows. The natural first stop, on a Dutch domain, for screening a Dutch home.
The European hub of the network with the widest catalogue. Useful for oversized panes, draaikiepramen and mixed orders across an older Dutch house.
The value tier of the family for European buyers. Simple kits at lower prices, well suited to screening several bedrooms and a student room or two in one order.
The international brand home of the magnetic screen family with the premium range. A dependable ordering route backed by the network's standard system.
A familiar Dutch DIY chain with stores across the country. A generalist for home projects, including basic seasonal insect items, rather than a magnetic screen specialist.
Framed horren need fitting, often drilling, and stay put all year. A magnetic hor is cut to size, sticks to the frame face, comes off in seconds and moves house with you. It is the hor for renters, big panes and anyone who wants winter windows bare.
The Netherlands is water in every direction: canals, ditches, polders and ponds, all breeding mosquitoes that head for warm rooms after dark. A sealed bedroom screen lets you sleep with the window open, which is the real fix.
Yes. Big single panes get a custom-cut panel, and the largest openings can be split across two panels meeting on a shared magnetic strip. The mesh weight stays low even at size, so the magnets hold fine.
Very well. Tilt-and-turn windows open inward, so the screen mounts on the room-side frame face and stays sealed while the sash tilts for night air. Turn the window fully and the panel peels off for cleaning access.
Yes, and that is a core reason to pick magnetic. The strips are adhesive rather than screwed, so nothing damages the frames, nothing needs the landlord's sign-off in practice, and removal at the end of the tenancy is clean.
The panel seals against the frame along its whole edge, so gusty days do not peel it away. If an extreme gust ever lifts a corner, pressing it back takes a second. Rain passes through the mesh without harm.
Upstairs is where the muggen bite, so screen there first. The panels are light enough to fit from inside without ladders: stick the strip, snap the mesh on, done. No hanging out of windows required.
Magnetic screens generally come in well under framed made-to-measure horren because there is no frame, no hinges and no fitter. You trade a fixed installation for a removable one, which for most Dutch homes is the better direction anyway.
Fit around April when the first warm days wake the flies, and take them down in October once windows stay shut. Washed and stored flat, the panels skip the winter weather entirely.
Yes, and few homes need it more, since the water is right there breeding mosquitoes all season. Any flat frame face takes the strip, and custom cutting handles the non-standard window shapes boats tend to have.
The Dutch invented a word for it, which tells you how real the problem is: hor. A country built on and around water does not get to pretend mosquitoes are someone else's issue, and the Netherlands never has.
The magnetic hor is the newest version of an old Dutch answer, and it fits modern Dutch housing better than the framed original.
Dutch mosquitoes have infrastructure: canals through every city, ditches along every field, polder water tables and garden ponds. Warm evenings send them toward lit windows, and upstairs bedrooms in narrow terraced houses catch the worst of it. The traditional response is the framed hor, and it works, but it is fixed, fitted and often drilled. Magnetic mesh delivers the same sealed protection as a panel that snaps on in spring and vanishes in autumn, leaving the big Dutch panes clear all winter.
Two features define Dutch windows: they are large, and a great many of them belong to landlords. Magnetic screens answer both. Custom cutting covers the famous floor-to-ceiling panes, splitting the very largest across two panels on a shared strip. Adhesive fitting answers the huurwoning problem, because nothing is drilled and the frames are returned untouched at the end of the tenancy. The screens move to the next address and get trimmed or reordered to fit, which framed horren never manage.
Run it like bike maintenance: a spring afternoon and an autumn hour. In April, wipe the frame faces, fit the strips, snap the panels on, starting with upstairs bedrooms, then the kitchen. All summer the windows stay open through warm nights and the muggen stay on the glass side of the mesh. In October the panels come off, get a soapy wash, dry fully and store flat. The strips stay on, invisible, ready for the next season's two-minute refit.
Order from the Dutch store, measure in millimetres, and screen the bedrooms before the first warm week. The water is not going anywhere, but the mosquitoes can stay outside.