Fly Screens in JBR

Coastal living is hard on screens in a way inland apartments never experience. Salt sits in the air in JBR all year, and a flimsy frame that might survive in another part of Dubai corrodes, stiffens and starts to look tired quickly on a beachfront balcony. That is why we use powder-coated aluminium frames as standard on coastal jobs: the coating protects the metal underneath, so the frame keeps working and keeps its finish in the sea air.

The mesh matters just as much. Ours is fine enough to stop even small insects, so the point of living in JBR — doors open, sea breeze moving through the apartment, the beach and the Ain in front of you — is not given up the moment the insects appear in the evening. A sliding screen on the balcony door does the daily work, moving with the door as you go in and out, while fixed window screens let bedrooms take the breeze overnight without inviting anything in with it.

Anyone who has lived in more than one JBR tower knows the buildings are not standardised. Door dimensions differ across the community's many towers, and sometimes differ between rooms in the same apartment, which is exactly why off-the-shelf screens disappoint here — a screen that almost fits will rattle, gap at the edges and let insects through the gaps. We make custom sizes for the different door dimensions across JBR's towers, measuring each opening in your apartment individually and building each screen to that measurement in our workshop.

That approach also makes it simple to combine systems in one home: a sliding screen for the main balcony door you use all day, fixed screens for the bedroom windows, and a pleated or rollup screen from our range where an opening calls for something that folds or rolls away. However the doors in your tower are arranged, the screens are made for them — not adapted from a size that was meant for somewhere else.