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(More customer reviews)We got a Bug Off Reversible French Door Screen for our 6' patio doors. It was indeed easy to install. Just a tension rod at the top and a couple of Velcro fasteners on the sides.
While it keeps out a lot of flying things (bees, birds, bats, etc.) mosquitoes have no problem finding the gaps at night. It's pretty hard to completely eliminate any small openings at the bottom and they are enough to allow those bloodsucking demons to make your life a living hell. We're on the water so, to be fair to Bug Off, we may have more of a problem than locations other than "Skeeterville".
Our doors open in and the right hand door from the inside is our primary door. (I know... it's a left hinged door for the illuminated few that understand that backwards builder sort of talk.) It IS reversible, but, to have the opening on that side it means the short flap on the right opens out and the long flap is on the inside. (They maybe should've had the opening closer to the center.) So??? What the heck is the difference you moron??? Well, I started to try a mechanical explanation, but it was getting too long and convoluted. Let it suffice to say the flaps keep getting reversed so that the magnets are no longer facing each other. Also, at the top where the flaps now cross they force themselves apart enough so they don't close tight. I know it sounds like such a silly, minor thing, but every time you go in or out you have to straighten the flaps or you'll have gaps. Skeeter gaps. (We don't need no steenking skeeter gaps!) It gets old and that makes me cranky. I should mention I'M old, so maybe THAT makes me cranky. Could be EVERYTHING makes me cranky, but that's another story for another venue.
One last little thing is that the more robust users (e.g. kids and tough-guys) will pull the tension rod down so, if you are not at least a little easy on it, you will have to keep adjusting the rod or putting it back up.
I don't mean to make it sound like a piece of crap because it's not. It's very useful if you need a temporary screen and you can move it in seconds to anyplace it's needed. For a more permanent situation such as ours, though, we will be getting real screen doors as soon as possible. In the meantime, it is okay for a quick fix and not prohibitively priced.
We paid $53.77 at SmartHome on Amazon in June 2010. They sent it out very quickly and we had it up just a few days after we ordered it.
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