Hi, my name is Don and this is Cooper. We’re from WindowPro. We’re going to show you how to repair a window screen today. We’re going to go through each step of the process.
Some of the tools that you can use to do this are measuring tape, the screen material is a nylon screen material, fiberglass with ultra violet light inhibitors on it, comes in rolls. If you measure the screen that you’re going to repair first you can go to the hardware store and actually have them pre-cut a piece of the screen material.
A point to remember is that you always want to have the screen material larger than the screen that you’re going to re-screen. The screen material comes in 36-inch widths, 48-inch and 24-inch widths.
The tools that we’re going to use are measuring tape to measure the size of the screen material, a pair of needle-nose pliers to pull the screen spline out of the screen. If you’re going to repair a screen with aluminum screen material you also want to have safety glasses and a pair of gloves. The reason for the gloves is the aluminum screen material can be sharp, while cutting the screen material you also can have shards fly up in your eyes so you want to wear the safety glasses.
For this particular screen we’re going to use fiberglass screen material so the gloves are not necessary for this. Also, you can use a screwdriver to push the screens plugged down in the corners which Cooper has there. We’re also going to use a screen roller. This can be purchased at any local hardware store. It has a concave roller and a convex roller and we will use both ends of that in this process. We’re also going to use the utility knife to cut the screen material off the roll and to trim it to fit the screen when we’re done doing the screen re-screen.
You can see the screen has a tear in it, so what were going to do is Cooper is going to remove the screens spline. Most of the time you can re-use the screen spline because it will be a good material, if not you can purchase the screen spline at the hardware store also.
Keep in mind that the screen spline comes in different diameters, so you want to get close as you can to the same diameter that you’re pointing out. For this demonstration we’re actually going to use the same screen spline that came out of the window because it’s in good shape.
As Cooper is removing the screen spline, when you look at the screen spline you actually see the shape of the actual screen. So, you have the corners predetermined when we go to put it back in.
Now we’re removing now the torn screen and you can discard this or a good use for this is my wife actually uses it in the bottom of her planters for strainer for the roots to go through. Once you have the screen material out of the screen, what you want to look at is the shape of the screen. Is it in good shape? Is it damaged? Are the corners in any disrepair?
We check out the screen frame to make sure that the corners and the screen is in good shape. So what we’re going to do next is we’re going to start the re-screening process.
Transcription by:
Scribe4you Transcription Services