The Screen Tent You Unfold at Mosquito Hour

Mosquitoes take the patio back at dusk, and the usual answers are repellent on your arms, a citronella candle, and going indoors anyway; the permanent fix is a screened structure somebody has to build. This is the option in between: ten feet by ten of fine mesh that opens out of a carry bag, walled on every side from the fabric roof down to a skirt lying flat on the ground, with arched doorways and no floor, so it drops straight onto grass or a deck. That is a hundred square feet under a roof seven and a half feet up, which holds a small table and chairs with room left to get around them. Buyers report it does keep bugs and mosquitoes out, and that putting it up and taking it down is simple.

The catch every product here has oneThe mesh is the whole product, and it is the part that fails first: buyers report the original screen tearing after only a few uses. Wind is the other limit. Reports on sturdiness split, some finding it solid and others saying it will not stand up to winter gusts, and the maker's own instructions say to take it down once wind passes 24 mph, so this is a room for calm evenings rather than a shelter you leave standing through weather. It is not rated water resistant either, and some buyers find it a little tricky to fold back down.

Buyers report

Buyers call the quality good and report that it keeps bugs and mosquitoes out, that it goes up and comes down simply, and that there is room inside for a small table and chairs. The recurring complaint is the original screen tearing after a few uses, and sturdiness in wind divides them: some find it solid, others say it does not hold in winter winds. A few also find it tricky to fold back down.

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