Ashton Estates sits off the Deer Flat end of Highway 69 with plans from 1,024 to 2,470 square feet on tight lots. The screens here catch something most Kuna screens do not: an oily road film that acts as a binder for everything else.
Tire wear, brake dust and exhaust particulate from Highway 69 arrive as a genuinely oily aerosol, and a window screen is effectively a filter sitting in that stream. The film coats each strand, and once coated the mesh holds every subsequent bit of airborne dust rather than letting it pass. That is why screens near the highway clog faster than screens three streets in, and why the loading is greasy to the touch rather than dusty.
An oily film repels water, so hosing a highway-side screen beads off and achieves very little, and pressure drives the film deeper into the weave. It needs a solution that emulsifies the oil so the whole load can be rinsed away, applied with the screen out of the opening so both faces are accessible. This is the most common reason people conclude their screens are simply worn out when in fact they have never been properly washed.
Idaho Transportation Department winter maintenance puts brine and de-icer on Highway 69, and traffic aerosolises it well past the shoulder. On a screen it leaves a dull residue, and on the aluminium frame and the spline holding the mesh it is mildly corrosive over time. A clean in late winter or early spring removes it before it spends the season working on the frame, which makes it maintenance rather than only appearance.
Plans from 1,024 to 2,470 square feet on lots as tight as 0.092 acres mean modest window and screen counts, so the +$50 add-on covers a whole house here comfortably. Both memberships include one free screen clean a year, and on this corridor a twice-yearly rhythm is genuinely worthwhile, once after winter for the de-icer and once for the summer road film.
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Highway 69. Tire wear, brake dust and exhaust particulate arrive as an oily aerosol, and your screen is effectively a filter in that stream. The film coats each strand and then holds every subsequent bit of dust rather than letting it pass through.
Because an oily film repels water, so the hose beads off, and pressure drives the film deeper into the weave. It needs a solution that emulsifies the oil, applied with the screen out of the opening so both faces are accessible.
Very often just never properly washed. Greasy highway loading looks like permanent discolouration, and people replace screens that would have come clean. We will tell you honestly if mesh is genuinely degraded rather than loaded, since rescreening is a real cost.
Yes. Brine and de-icer aerosolised off Highway 69 leaves a dull residue on the mesh and is mildly corrosive to the aluminium frame and the spline holding the mesh. A late-winter clean removes it before it spends the season working on the frame.
+$50 added to a window clean covers it comfortably here, because plans from 1,024 to 2,470 square feet on tight lots mean modest window and screen counts. Both memberships include one free screen clean each year.
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