I'm seeing them available for purchase everywhere now. Its a well known psychological effect, but really, its very odd.
Robert Dyas have full-door flyscreens for £13 or so - made of metal links, and some are like vertical blinds. Lakeland, of all people, do door curtains like this too - even Lakeland manage a door curtain for £36, including a very jazzy version of bamboo. So the money I was originally quoted for a window - £230 or so - means a horrendous amount of profit would have been made from me. 100% markup can be fair enough, but its starting to sound like 1,000%, though I know that small businesses can't have the bulk savings that big firms do.
Lakeland also do a kit - consisting of fibreglass mesh and "adhesive hook and loop tape" (erm, velcro, anyone? anyone?). The screen mesh is one metre by two metres, and the kit sells at £16.99; with an unknown amount of additional tape (velcro! its velcro!) being available at £4.99. Okay, the profit margin on this may "only" be in the region of 100% or so. Good grief.
The final product dear Lakeland do is a weird foldaway thing - it covers a door, and it looks like when its folded up it'd be the size of a nappy changing pad... again, it sticks to the door with velcro, not the hanging blind version, so its ventilation only - it'd be impossible to use the door as a door. Mental!
It would be hard to express how pleased I am I found the roll of screening at the princely sum of £2 a metre :)
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