How to Clean Window Screens

Screen Cleaning Made Easy

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Fourth dimension

A few hours

Complexity

Beginner

Price

$five–10

Introduction

Cleaning window screens can be a dreadful chore, but it doesn't take to be. Hither are a few tips and DIY cleaning solutions for making your screens look new once more.

Tools Required

Materials Required

  • Dish soap or all-purpose cleaner
  • White vinegar
  • Screen Magic

Project stride-past-step (v)

Step 1

Cleaning the Screens Without Removing Them.

  • Starting time, vacuum the screen with a brush attachment to remove whatever clay, spider webs and pollen.
  • Starting from the acme, mist the screen with white vinegar from a spray canteen. Use a damp microfiber cloth and gently wipe the screen in a round motion, conscientious not to push too hard. If possible clean the screen from the outside as well – you may need a ladder.
  • Screen Magic is a simple approach to cleaning your screens without removing them. You simply soak a micro-fiber fabric with Screen Magic and wipe the screen until it'due south make clean. As always, read the instructions on the bottle.

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Footstep ii

Removing the Screens

  • Nigh screens can be removed by pulling up, and then pushing out with both hands on the two plastic tabs at the bottom of the screen, removing information technology from the window jamb.
    • Pro tip: If you lot remove all your screens at one time and have several different sizes, labeling them with masking tape will accept the guesswork out when you re-install them.

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Step three

Homemade Cleaning Solutions

  • Make your ain homemade cleaning solutions with a saucepan of h2o and a few squirts of dish soap or all-purpose cleaner. Also, a vinegar/water mixture works well for this.
  • For extremely dirty screens employ ¼ loving cup ammonia with one gal. water. (Wearable rubber gloves for this.)

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Pace 4

Cleaning the Screens

  • Once the screens are removed, gear up your hose nozzle to light pressure and douse the screen completely. Practise not utilize loftier-pressure settings on the nozzle – you could impairment the screen.
  • Lay the screens flat on the sidewalk or driveway. Y'all can also lean them side by side against the house and spray them all at once.
  • Use a soft bristle brush or sponge forth with your cleaning solution to make clean the screen.
  • Scrub both sides of the screen then rinse it thoroughly with water.
  • Spray Screen Magic on both sides of the screen and gently wipe with a micro-cobweb cloth.
  • Allow the screens dry out completely earlier re-installing them in their respective windows.

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Step v

Re-installing the Screens

  • Align the screen in the aqueduct on the right and left side of the window jamb, pulling the screen up and into the channel on elevation.
  • With both easily property the two tabs at the bottom of the screen, pull up and in on the screen until it locks into place.

re-installing the window screen

Originally Published: August 20, 2021