Polyester windscreen is regarded as the top quality windscreen fabric. It is by the way the most expensive. Around 10 percent less expensive, polypropylene is viewed as the cost-effective option to polyester. Polyethylene windscreen is relatively new and is quickly turning into the favorite between tennis court operators all over north america. Polyethylene Windscreen is the most affordable of the 3, and the most robust so no surprise if it become so popular.

Polyester and polypropylene tennis windscreens are custom cut to the width of each fence panel, and are hemmed and grommeted all around the perimeter. Each screen panel is established by calculating the length between 2 extreme fence posts. An end post can be any of the subsequent: a gate post, a corner post, or any fence post where there is a changeover from one height of fence to the other (example: a transition from 12 ft . fence to 6 ft . fence)

You in fact need to calculate the length between the pressure bars simply in top of these fence posts. The image beneath shows how to determine each panel for windscreen. The four pictures under will assist you comprehend what I am attempting to explain.

Polyethylene, the toughest and most adaptable windscreen, is offered only in rolls of 120 ft with eyelids grommets, spread out every 12 in, at the top and bottom. You basically roll out just what you require for every panel, cut it with an convenient tool (provided with the windscreen roll), and fold the 2 sides so they produce a dual layer of one to two inches. Plastic ties are used to secure the windscreen to the fence at every grommet on the top and bottom, and every one feet alongside the folded windscreen fabric at the sides.


My Advice

To sum it up, if funds were not an concern, you may choose six foot, open mesh, polyester windscreen for your tennis court. If cost were an crucial issue, you may prefer to pick 6 foot, polyethylene windscreen, with grommets at the top and bottom. It is probably better to only choose polypropylene windscreen if the cost were the most and almost only critical aspect, and you wished the ease of custom made cut windscreen panels. The selection between six ft . and nine ft . windscreen is an individual one. Many contractor have viewed too many fences affected by nine foot tennis windscreens, you really have to take care before making that choice. They are, nevertheless, chosen very often over 6 foot windscreens, by many tennis court managers.

As the wind damage issuesis concerned, our advise is using closed mesh windscreen only where the wind is most of the times gently, or the when your fencing installation is reinforced with at least 3 in . diameter posts at every 5 feet or less.Bound windows and vents are surely an interesting option and it can reduce the wind stress but most of the time not enough for a windy or high wind area.