Screens in Ashbury are the filter nobody ever changes. arterial road film on one side and green-space pollen on the other.
Screens here get two different loads depending on which way they face. Street-facing mesh catches the greasy grey film off Chinden and Meridian Road, which is stickier and harder to shift than dry dust. Mesh facing the community green space every home backs onto catches grass pollen and clippings instead. Both come out with the panels off the house and washed individually — and with no soap, because soap residue in mesh grabs the next round and goes dingy within a fortnight.
The mesh on these houses is factory-new, which is the good news. What it is filtering is not: alongside ordinary airborne dust, an active build phase puts drywall powder, stucco overspray, paint mist and mortar fines in the air. Drywall dust is the problem one in mesh, because it goes to a thin paste the first time it gets wet and then dries hard in the weave. A garden hose will not touch that, and it gets harder the longer it sits.
Horizontal sliders on these builds run a groove at the sill that catches fines, pollen and silt, and once it packs the panel starts to bind and the track stains — with the weep holes at the end of it plugged, so water sits where it should drain. Putting a freshly washed screen back over a packed track just hides the problem until the slider stops moving smoothly. Clearing that groove by hand is part of the job here rather than an add-on.
Screen cleaning is $50 added to a window service and free once a year on any monthly or quarterly membership. We do not sell it as a standalone trip, because pulling screens is already half the work of cleaning the glass behind them — doing them separately means paying twice for the same access. The spread here is wide for one subdivision, so a patio home and an acre custom price very differently.
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Because traffic film is greasy rather than dry, so it sticks to the weave instead of shaking loose. It needs washing off the house rather than a hose pass, which just drives it deeper into the mesh.
Yes. They come out, get washed individually with pure deionized water, and go back into the exact opening they left — labeled, so nothing gets swapped. Washing a screen in place drives the load deeper into the weave and soaks the sill.
Usually soap residue from a previous cleaning. Soap left in mesh grabs the next dust event and turns a clean screen dingy within a fortnight. We use no soap at all, which is why a properly cleaned screen stays open and clear rather than hazing over.
We flag anything already failing rather than forcing it. If a frame is brittle or a corner key has let go, you hear about it before we pull, and we clean it in place instead of handing you a broken panel.
Yes — Eagle is one of our nine Treasure Valley cities and we run it as a regular route rather than a stretch call, from the Chinden edge up into the foothills. Call or text (208) 453-6760 and we will tell you the next open slot.
Our 7-Day Rain Guarantee covers it. Rain on a clean surface is largely harmless — it is the dust it lands on that spots. If a storm genuinely undoes the work inside seven days, we come back out.
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