Keep sandflies and mozzies out of the villa, the townhouse and the bach without drilling a single hole. The NZ magnetic screen suppliers, ranked.
⟳ Updated August 2026New Zealand summers are built for open windows, and the sandflies know it. Magnetic insect screens snap onto window frames without screws, suiting everything from Edwardian villas to new-build joinery and the bach that only gets screened in January. This guide ranks the suppliers serving New Zealand.
The custom-cut NZ flagship: screens made to measure for New Zealand joinery, from villa sashes to aluminium sliders, with domestic delivery.
The value tier for New Zealand: simple kits, quick fitting and pricing that makes screening several rooms straightforward.
The budget tier, ideal for screening the whole house or the bach without ceremony, keeping the magnetic no-drill format at the lowest cost.
The door specialist for New Zealand: walk-through screening for ranchsliders, French doors and the entries every summer barbecue flows through.
The Australian sister store, useful for trans-Tasman households and as the reference for the family's premium mesh options.
New Zealand's home improvement co-operative stocks basic screen kits and mesh in stores nationwide, the same-day baseline for standard sizes.
Bunnings' NZ stores cover the budget retail end: standard kits and repair mesh available immediately across the country.
Yes. Villa sash windows take magnetic screens well because the screen sits on the flat frame face while the sashes move behind it. Measure each window individually; villa joinery is charmingly inconsistent.
Standard mesh stops mosquitoes and flies, but sandflies in the wrong parts of the country demand fine mesh grades. If your summer includes the West Coast or Fiordland, order fine mesh and thank yourself later.
They are practically designed for baches: fit them in December, pull them off at Easter, store flat, repeat next summer. No tradesperson, no permanent fixings, no drama.
Yes, they are the bond-safe option: adhesive receptor strips instead of screws, clean removal at end of tenancy, and the screens move with you.
Very well. Modern NZ aluminium joinery offers clean flat faces for the receptor strip, making new builds the easiest installations in the country.
Budget kits screen a bedroom for the cost of a couple of flat whites a week, with custom-cut screens above that per window. Whole-house bundles bring per-window pricing down across every tier.
Measure the flat frame face where the strip will sit, width and height in millimetres, for every window separately. The supplier guides walk through it, and careful measuring is the entire secret to a sealed fit.
Doors need walk-through screening rather than fixed panels, which is the door specialist's job: formats that open with you and reseal behind you, built for exactly the ranchslider openings NZ homes love.
UV-stabilised mesh gives many seasons in New Zealand sun, and seasonal removal over winter extends that further. The magnetic strips typically outlast the mesh itself.
Standard mesh passes nearly all breeze and reads as a light tint on the view; darker mesh actually sharpens outward vision on bright days. The only thing missing from the open window is the insects.
Pull the screen off, wash in warm soapy water, dry and snap it back. Once a season is plenty for most homes, more often near the coast where salt spray lands.
It is the efficient play: one measuring session, one order, one weekend of fitting, and every window opens all summer. Mixing tiers, custom for living areas, budget for the rest, keeps the total sensible.
New Zealand houses are built around the summer evening: the ranchslider open to the deck, the sea breeze through the villa hallway, dinner drifting outside. The insects appreciate the architecture too. Screening is what lets the Kiwi summer plan survive contact with the mosquitoes, and the magnetic format is what makes screening a weekend job instead of a joinery quote.
Here is the New Zealand-specific playbook.
The country's insects are regional: mosquitoes nearly everywhere in summer, sandflies ferociously in the west and south, flies wherever farms and barbecues meet. Standard mesh handles the mosquito-and-fly belt; sandfly country needs fine mesh, full stop. Order for the worst insect your region offers, because the mesh grade cannot be upgraded after the bite.
Villa and bungalow sashes, mid-century timber, modern aluminium: New Zealand streets mix a century of window styles, and screens must be measured to the window, not to the era's reputation. Measure every opening individually in millimetres. New builds fit fastest, villas reward patience, and nothing about either requires a drill.
The holiday house gets the best version of magnetic screening: fit in early summer, remove at the end of the season, store flat in a cupboard, refit next year in minutes. Mesh stored out of winter weather lasts dramatically longer, and the bach stays screen-free for the off-season months nobody visits anyway.
The ranchslider is the soul of NZ indoor-outdoor flow and the biggest hole in any screening plan. Walk-through door screening reseals behind traffic, keeping the flow and closing the gap, and it belongs in the same order as the window screens. A screened house with an open slider is only a suggestion to the insects.
Regional mesh, honest measuring, seasonal rhythm and the doors done properly. That is the whole formula, and the suppliers ranked above cover every piece of it. The breeze is waiting.