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The insect mesh for the outlet of my ducted shower fan is broken (no -
I don't know how or why, the fan was broken too but I've just replaced that with a 100m Xpelair - which came with a nice but unmeshed flapped outlet). The outlet vent is 5.25" square. Ideally I just want a similar sized, black, piece of screen mesh which will let air out, keep insects out and will not rot or corrode. I must be searching for the wrong thing but I can find rolls of the stuff or some vents with it inbuilt but not some sensibly priced/sized pieces. Any pointers please? -- AnthonyL |
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writes The insect mesh for the outlet of my ducted shower fan is broken (no - I don't know how or why, the fan was broken too but I've just replaced that with a 100m Xpelair - which came with a nice but unmeshed flapped outlet). The outlet vent is 5.25" square. Ideally I just want a similar sized, black, piece of screen mesh which will let air out, keep insects out and will not rot or corrode. I must be searching for the wrong thing but I can find rolls of the stuff or some vents with it inbuilt but not some sensibly priced/sized pieces. Any pointers please? Surely if it is *flapped* they could only get in by flying up wind? Unless you want to keep them in the house? -- Tim Lamb |
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On Mon, 30 May 2016 13:01:35 +0100 (GMT+01:00), jim wrote:
The mesh gets bunged up with fluff and the fanwon't extract... On a shower fan? Well it might but it'll take a while, unlike that on a tumble dryer... -- Cheers Dave. |
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On Mon, 30 May 2016 12:31:17 +0100, Tim Lamb wrote:
Surely if it is *flapped* they could only get in by flying up wind? On the ones I've looked at the flaps aren't particulary close fitting so small creatures could get in. As for the OPs problem: 1) See if Expelair or anybody else does a flapped vent with screen. I think the cowled and flapped vents I have here (somewhere) have a screen as well, probably Marley. 2) Look at all screened air vents and see if the screen could be removed and reporpussed. -- Cheers Dave. |
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AnthonyL wrote:
The insect mesh for the outlet of my ducted shower fan is broken (no - I don't know how or why, the fan was broken too but I've just replaced that with a 100m Xpelair - which came with a nice but unmeshed flapped outlet). The flaps are closed when the fan's not in use, this means no flies can get in. The outlet vent is 5.25" square. Ideally I just want a similar sized, black, piece of screen mesh which will let air out, keep insects out and will not rot or corrode. I must be searching for the wrong thing but I can find rolls of the stuff or some vents with it inbuilt but not some sensibly priced/sized pieces. Any pointers please? When the flaps are open, the fan is blowing air from inside to outside, this means no flies can get in. |
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On Monday, 30 May 2016 11:52:19 UTC+1, AnthonyL wrote:
I must be searching for the wrong thing but I can find rolls of the stuff or some vents with it inbuilt but not some sensibly priced/sized pieces. Any pointers please? Ebay is often a good place for small pieces of something. Eg 1 x 1.2 m for £1.79 delivered http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/191876530206 includes free velcro tape Or stainless steel 9" x 9" for £5 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/272251289332 Owain |
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On 30/05/16 16:29, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Mon, 30 May 2016 10:52:16 GMT, lid (AnthonyL) wrote: The insect mesh for the outlet of my ducted shower fan is broken (no - I don't know how or why, the fan was broken too but I've just replaced that with a 100m Xpelair - which came with a nice but unmeshed flapped outlet). The outlet vent is 5.25" square. Ideally I just want a similar sized, black, piece of screen mesh which will let air out, keep insects out and will not rot or corrode. I must be searching for the wrong thing but I can find rolls of the stuff or some vents with it inbuilt but not some sensibly priced/sized pieces. Any pointers please? Cannibalise a kitchen plastic sieve, but don't tell SWMBO! "No dear, I don't know where it is. Are you sure you didn't put it in the bin?" http://www.meshdirect.co.uk/fly-screen-insect-mesh/ -- The biggest threat to humanity comes from socialism, which has utterly diverted our attention away from what really matters to our existential survival, to indulging in navel gazing and faux moral investigations into what the world ought to be, whilst we fail utterly to deal with what it actually is. |
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"Dave Liquorice" Wrote in message:
On Mon, 30 May 2016 13:01:35 +0100 (GMT+01:00), jim wrote: The mesh gets bunged up with fluff and the fanwon't extract... On a shower fan? Well it might but it'll take a while, unlike that on a tumble dryer... Yup on shower fans. Tumble dryers should have their own filters in the machines with stern notes about cleaning before every use ... -ask the wife? -- Jim K ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
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On 30/05/2016 16:37, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 30/05/16 16:29, Chris Hogg wrote: On Mon, 30 May 2016 10:52:16 GMT, lid (AnthonyL) wrote: The insect mesh for the outlet of my ducted shower fan is broken (no - I don't know how or why, the fan was broken too but I've just replaced that with a 100m Xpelair - which came with a nice but unmeshed flapped outlet). The outlet vent is 5.25" square. Ideally I just want a similar sized, black, piece of screen mesh which will let air out, keep insects out and will not rot or corrode. I must be searching for the wrong thing but I can find rolls of the stuff or some vents with it inbuilt but not some sensibly priced/sized pieces. Any pointers please? Cannibalise a kitchen plastic sieve, but don't tell SWMBO! "No dear, I don't know where it is. Are you sure you didn't put it in the bin?" http://www.meshdirect.co.uk/fly-screen-insect-mesh/ He's looking for about a foot square of the stuff not a 5M roll. Every flapped outlet I have seen is close enough fitting to prevent insects flying in. Perhaps they'd be able to crawl in but no houses are hermetically sealed (something you'd need to keep ALL insects out). |
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On 30/05/16 21:24, soup wrote:
Every flapped outlet I have seen is close enough fitting to prevent insects flying in. Perhaps they'd be able to crawl in but no houses are hermetically sealed (something you'd need to keep ALL insects out). My soffit vent has a mesh insert - something like this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/S/141330179058 |
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Tim Watts wrote:
On 30/05/16 21:24, soup wrote: Every flapped outlet I have seen is close enough fitting to prevent insects flying in. Perhaps they'd be able to crawl in but no houses are hermetically sealed (something you'd need to keep ALL insects out). My soffit vent has a mesh insert - something like this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/S/141330179058 Can't really see the relevance of a soffit vent mesh to an extractor fan. Very different functions! Tim -- Trolls and troll feeders go in my killfile |
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On 30/05/16 21:58, Tim+ wrote:
Tim Watts wrote: On 30/05/16 21:24, soup wrote: Every flapped outlet I have seen is close enough fitting to prevent insects flying in. Perhaps they'd be able to crawl in but no houses are hermetically sealed (something you'd need to keep ALL insects out). My soffit vent has a mesh insert - something like this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/S/141330179058 Can't really see the relevance of a soffit vent mesh to an extractor fan. Very different functions! Tim Well, it stops things nesting there... |
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On Monday, 30 May 2016 23:14:16 UTC+1, Tim Watts wrote:
Can't really see the relevance of a soffit vent mesh to an extractor fan. Very different functions! Well, it stops things nesting there... And last year I had a bird nesting in my extractor fan vent. It's no longer used and was plasterboarded over on the inside, but not sufficiently meshed on the outside. I just discovered the inside bit today and it should be getting foamed up later this week. Owain |
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I was surprised how much putting this stuff over a fan outlet reduced the
flow when I put a fan in to keep my workshop cool many years ago. Maybe this is why many do not have it these days. On my air bricks I used some small sized expanded ally mesh which appeared to have been anodised. Yes it had to be cut and clamped in little frames, but seems to have survived for many years.. I think originally it came from Wickes or however one spells it. Brian -- ----- - This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from... The Sofa of Brian Gaff... Blind user, so no pictures please! "AnthonyL" wrote in message ... The insect mesh for the outlet of my ducted shower fan is broken (no - I don't know how or why, the fan was broken too but I've just replaced that with a 100m Xpelair - which came with a nice but unmeshed flapped outlet). The outlet vent is 5.25" square. Ideally I just want a similar sized, black, piece of screen mesh which will let air out, keep insects out and will not rot or corrode. I must be searching for the wrong thing but I can find rolls of the stuff or some vents with it inbuilt but not some sensibly priced/sized pieces. Any pointers please? -- AnthonyL |
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No the vent might be needed to be open with no fan running at times. IE
ventilation but no fan. Brian -- ----- - This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from... The Sofa of Brian Gaff... Blind user, so no pictures please! "Tim Lamb" wrote in message news In message , AnthonyL writes The insect mesh for the outlet of my ducted shower fan is broken (no - I don't know how or why, the fan was broken too but I've just replaced that with a 100m Xpelair - which came with a nice but unmeshed flapped outlet). The outlet vent is 5.25" square. Ideally I just want a similar sized, black, piece of screen mesh which will let air out, keep insects out and will not rot or corrode. I must be searching for the wrong thing but I can find rolls of the stuff or some vents with it inbuilt but not some sensibly priced/sized pieces. Any pointers please? Surely if it is *flapped* they could only get in by flying up wind? Unless you want to keep them in the house? -- Tim Lamb |
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Tim Watts wrote:
On 30/05/16 21:58, Tim+ wrote: Tim Watts wrote: On 30/05/16 21:24, soup wrote: Every flapped outlet I have seen is close enough fitting to prevent insects flying in. Perhaps they'd be able to crawl in but no houses are hermetically sealed (something you'd need to keep ALL insects out). My soffit vent has a mesh insert - something like this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/S/141330179058 Can't really see the relevance of a soffit vent mesh to an extractor fan. Very different functions! Tim Well, it stops things nesting there... And how are they going to get past the flap? Mesh is absolutely fine for a diffusion vent but will dramatically impair the function of a forced flow fan if one tries to use a mesh small enough to keep insects out. Tim -- Trolls AND TROLL FEEDERS all go in my kill file |
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On 31/05/16 08:16, Tim+ wrote:
Tim Watts wrote: On 30/05/16 21:58, Tim+ wrote: Tim Watts wrote: On 30/05/16 21:24, soup wrote: Every flapped outlet I have seen is close enough fitting to prevent insects flying in. Perhaps they'd be able to crawl in but no houses are hermetically sealed (something you'd need to keep ALL insects out). My soffit vent has a mesh insert - something like this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/S/141330179058 Can't really see the relevance of a soffit vent mesh to an extractor fan. Very different functions! Tim Well, it stops things nesting there... And how are they going to get past the flap? Mesh is absolutely fine for a diffusion vent but will dramatically impair the function of a forced flow fan if one tries to use a mesh small enough to keep insects out. Tim What flap? |
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On 30-May-16 9:24 PM, soup wrote:
.... Every flapped outlet I have seen is close enough fitting to prevent insects flying in... The standard for stopping flying insects getting into water supplies is an aperture no larger than 57 microns. You must have seen some particularly well fitting flapped outlets. -- -- Colin Bignell |
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On 31-May-16 7:38 AM, Brian Gaff wrote:
I was surprised how much putting this stuff over a fan outlet reduced the flow when I put a fan in to keep my workshop cool many years ago... The mesh I use on insect screens for water supplies has only 40% open space, so the screen needs to be 2.5 times larger than the cross-sectional area of the pipe it is fitted to in order to maintain full flow rates. -- -- Colin Bignell |
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On 31/05/16 08:16, Tim+ wrote: Tim Watts wrote: On 30/05/16 21:58, Tim+ wrote: Tim Watts wrote: On 30/05/16 21:24, soup wrote: Every flapped outlet I have seen is close enough fitting to prevent insects flying in. Perhaps they'd be able to crawl in but no houses are hermetically sealed (something you'd need to keep ALL insects out). My soffit vent has a mesh insert - something like this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/S/141330179058 Can't really see the relevance of a soffit vent mesh to an extractor fan. Very different functions! Tim Well, it stops things nesting there... And how are they going to get past the flap? Mesh is absolutely fine for a diffusion vent but will dramatically impair the function of a forced flow fan if one tries to use a mesh small enough to keep insects out. Tim What flap? From the OPs first post: " which came with a nice but unmeshed flapped outlet". Tim -- Trolls and troll feeders go in my killfile |
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On Mon, 30 May 2016 07:48:51 -0700 (PDT),
wrote: On Monday, 30 May 2016 11:52:19 UTC+1, AnthonyL wrote: I must be searching for the wrong thing but I can find rolls of the stuff or some vents with it inbuilt but not some sensibly priced/sized pieces. Any pointers please? Ebay is often a good place for small pieces of something. Eg 1 x 1.2 m for =C2=A31.79 delivered http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/191876530206 includes free velcro tape Or stainless steel 9" x 9" for =C2=A35 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/272251289332 I tried Ebay - honest - never came up with anything as handy as this - thank you. -- AnthonyL |
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On Tue, 31 May 2016 10:46:27 -0000 (UTC), Tim+
wrote: Tim Watts wrote: On 31/05/16 08:16, Tim+ wrote: Tim Watts wrote: On 30/05/16 21:58, Tim+ wrote: Tim Watts wrote: On 30/05/16 21:24, soup wrote: Every flapped outlet I have seen is close enough fitting to prevent insects flying in. Perhaps they'd be able to crawl in but no houses are hermetically sealed (something you'd need to keep ALL insects out). My soffit vent has a mesh insert - something like this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/S/141330179058 Can't really see the relevance of a soffit vent mesh to an extractor fan. Very different functions! Tim Well, it stops things nesting there... And how are they going to get past the flap? Mesh is absolutely fine for a diffusion vent but will dramatically impair the function of a forced flow fan if one tries to use a mesh small enough to keep insects out. Tim What flap? From the OPs first post: " which came with a nice but unmeshed flapped outlet". OP here - being lazy the existing outlet, already in situ, has the broken mesh and no flaps and I was simply going to replace the mesh. No idea how it comes to be broken. The new fan comes with a flapped outlet which means I have to remove the whole of the old outlet, not just the grill, and then no doubt find some silly issue with where to fasten the new outlet. A bit of nice mesh should take minutes, the latter, with my luck and lack of skills, likely to take a whole morning. Sorry for any confusion though if you read the OP it is as I said. -- AnthonyL |
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On Tue, 31 May 2016 11:10:33 +0100, Nightjar
wrote: On 31-May-16 7:38 AM, Brian Gaff wrote: I was surprised how much putting this stuff over a fan outlet reduced the flow when I put a fan in to keep my workshop cool many years ago... The mesh I use on insect screens for water supplies has only 40% open space, so the screen needs to be 2.5 times larger than the cross-sectional area of the pipe it is fitted to in order to maintain full flow rates. Good points thanks. How much do flaps impede the flow? -- AnthonyL |
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On 31/05/16 11:46, Tim+ wrote:
Tim Watts wrote: On 31/05/16 08:16, Tim+ wrote: Tim Watts wrote: On 30/05/16 21:58, Tim+ wrote: Tim Watts wrote: On 30/05/16 21:24, soup wrote: Every flapped outlet I have seen is close enough fitting to prevent insects flying in. Perhaps they'd be able to crawl in but no houses are hermetically sealed (something you'd need to keep ALL insects out). My soffit vent has a mesh insert - something like this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/S/141330179058 Can't really see the relevance of a soffit vent mesh to an extractor fan. Very different functions! Tim Well, it stops things nesting there... And how are they going to get past the flap? Mesh is absolutely fine for a diffusion vent but will dramatically impair the function of a forced flow fan if one tries to use a mesh small enough to keep insects out. Tim What flap? From the OPs first post: " which came with a nice but unmeshed flapped outlet". Tim I was referring to mine As it's a downwards facing soffit vent, it's open all the time - and the fan's an axial in line, so that doesn't have one either (never had a problem with wind blowing in with that arrangement). But point taken WRT to the OP... |
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On 31/05/2016 11:06, Nightjar wrote:
On 30-May-16 9:24 PM, soup wrote: ... Every flapped outlet I have seen is close enough fitting to prevent insects flying in... The standard for stopping flying insects getting into water supplies is an aperture no larger than 57 microns. Flying? Doubt it. Crawling? Pretty conceivable see my PP (But NOBODY lives in a completely sealed house). |
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On 31/05/2016 12:33, AnthonyL wrote:
Good points thanks. How much do flaps impede the flow? Depends. When two successive house painters have covered the light plastic flaps with masonry paint - quite a lot. (I gave up. There's a flap on the fan too, so I fixed the outside ones open at 45 degrees, enough to let air through but keep rain mostly out) Andy |
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