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R1gger · Oct 2, 2025

Good morning guys from sunny Spain.

We had an interesting experience last night when a young kitten decided to try and enter our van through the roof open roof window. Unfortunately the fly screen was closed at the time, not sure who got the biggest scare 😂😂.
Result is a damaged roof window blind/screen. Any recommendations as to how to repair welcome from you knowledgeable guys?

Thanks in advance

Andy

Gee-jay · Oct 2, 2025

Is it actually repairable? You may need to fit a new fly screen. If it’s a HEKI have a look on the Dometic HEKI website for instructions.

R1gger · Oct 2, 2025

Many thanks. Fortunately it wasn’t damaged and I managed to re-thread the guide rods ok.

thanks for the response

jiwawa · Oct 2, 2025

Is it fixed then? And what did you do with the kitten?!

Smabob · Oct 2, 2025

I hate to think of the damage if that happened to us...likely our Labrador pup would've launched himself up throut the mesh

JanHank · Oct 3, 2025

Teach your Pup to leave cats alone, it´s a simple task, cats and sheep, done it with 9 dogs

nickkdx · Oct 3, 2025

It will be worth watching this video on repairing the mini heki

JanHank · Oct 4, 2025

Thats a very useful video Nick, I don´t need it and hopefully never will, if however I do I can show it to someone else to do for me

.
It is now saved in my documents

Is there a fix for side window flyscreens that don´t stay up while travelling ?

GMJ · Oct 4, 2025

Those mini heki's are a bit of a pain. I repaired ours 3 times as the little plastic catches on the blind part are under great strain due to the design, and they eventually snap. I screwed in a small round eyelet which worked for a while but in the end I gave up and bought a whole new blind from O'Leary's for around 40-50 quid.

Johnscouseone · Oct 5, 2025

You can buy the material and replace the fly screen pretty easy

erneboy · Oct 5, 2025

Please explain how we do that with a pleated flyscreen. I'm very keen to know how I didn't know it was possible with pleated

Johnscouseone · Oct 5, 2025

Look on eBay or Amazon just a thought or Google it

erneboy · Oct 5, 2025

I dont think pleated material is available. I haven't found it. Maybe you can point it out.

Perhaps you didn't notice that the blind seems to be pleated?

Johnscouseone · Oct 5, 2025

erneboy said:
I dont think pleated material is available. I haven't found it. Maybe you can point it out.

Perhaps you didn't notice that the blind seems to be pleated?

Change the style some one must make them

Malshadow · Oct 5, 2025

Could this little chap have been Andy R1gger's intruder.

JanHank · Oct 6, 2025

I´ve not got a lot to do at 6.30am

I didn´t look for the big one

OTTO
The Dometic Mini Heki Inner Frame - Grey is a fly screen and blackout hatch suitable for your Mini Heki roof hatch.
The inner frame features a pleated blackout screen and a pleated fly screen.
The inner frame comes with metal clips that click into the frame of your roof hatch.
dometic-mini-heki-innenrahmen-grey-566783.html

Replacement clips Amazon

Amazon.de : heki fenstersicherung

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