Customer Reviews

Coleman 14 x 12 Insta-Clip Screen

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I will be ordering my third one of these this year. I live in an area where we get winds up to 40, even 50 mph sometimes. I put this up in the Spring and enjoy it as long as it survives. It will get demolished by wind sometime during the late summer or fall. In the meantime I will have enjoyed it for several months--I leave it up all summer. I have tried several different brands and this is the best designed for the beating they get here at 7000 feet. Some of the other brands have not lasted a month.

The only reason I didn't give it five stars is that the vent in the top is crappy. Designed to drench you when it rains. Of course they didn't anticipate that anyone would want to sit out there in the rain, but I do, and so do both my cats. I hang shower curtains over the sides for wet weather but there's nothing you can do about the vent.

This has been up for about a month on the shore of Lake Champlain. It sways in 40 mph wind, but doesn't move. So far, it's great and does keep the bugs out.

Screen house blew over the first day on the beach in a gust of wind. Four of the poles were bent, but could be straightened. We used it the rest of the week with out a problem. Contacted Amazon about my problem and I was taken care of quickly and in a very fair way. Not only was I taken care of fairly it was done with great haste and no arguments. I will buy from Amazon and have found in a lot of cases it is cheaper than and easier than bidding on eBay.

Our use is for camping. We have a screen house from a National Retailer, and quit using it after about 4 times because it was such a pain to assemble. Two couples we know own this one, and we end up at their campsite whenever we go camping together. We finally bought our own. We got it up in 20 minutes the first time. Getting the pins in the ends of the stakes is a bit tough but we did it. We might shave a bit off the ends of a couple poles if it doesn't stretch after a couple uses.

My husband & I are extremely pleased with this screen room. It is assembled & disassembled easily and quickly, provides good shade and good protection against flying pests. We use it while camping out in an RV at the lake over the picnic table in our pad. We string up chili pepper lights around it, even cook on a portable gas grill inside of it and also put in a couple of reclining lawn chairs. Our dogs lounge in there with us. Great buy! People walk by and inquire about where to buy it and say they too must get one!

This is a great great enclosure for camping or general use. It goes up easily and stores well in bag - very good value for price.

Just used this on a weekend camping trip. Its very easy to set up and is accomplished within 10-15 mins. We staked down all 6 coners and all 6 steadying strings. A few hours later a huge rain storm came through and the tent didnt move. I think the key is a good stake job in solid ground (not sand) and the tent should hold up in rain and pretty rough winds. Although when we took the tent down we found the ends of 3 of the 6 plastic stakes had bent...super cheap! we're going to buy some heavier duty metal ones. Also at one of the tent pole conections where the poles fit together the chain that holds them together was slack (just hanging out losely, not pulling the poles together anymore) so now we have to feed it into the pole then push them together...hopefully this doesn't happen on any of the other poles!

THis screen room was pretty easy to assemble, but one person would have a hard time with it. Seemed very sturdy and roomy. Even went back into the carrying case with no problem. We took it camping and left it up for about 3 days. Very nice!

Since the weather took a turn towards winter right after I sent in my order, I still haven't had a chance to set this up. Shipping was very fast though.
I will leave a review in the spring when WI weather allows me to set the unit up.