Screens in BanBury take a beating nothing else on the house does. Cottonwood fuzz off the river corridor along the golf course, pollen under the maturing canopy in the older Meadows blocks, fairway dust, and untreated canal-water spray all load into the mesh — and mesh holds all of it.
The cottonwoods along the Boise River corridor at the edge of the BanBury course throw seed fluff for a few weeks in late spring, and that fluff is the worst single thing that happens to a screen out here. It doesn't sit on the surface the way dust does — it wedges into the weave and mats there, and once a sprinkler cycle or a thunderstorm wets it down it dries into a felt layer you can't see through from inside. Add pollen off the maturing landscape trees in the older Meadows blocks and grass mow-off drifting in from the fairways, and by June a BanBury screen is doing more filtering than viewing. We pull screens down and wash the mesh from the back side, so debris exits the way it came in instead of getting driven deeper into the weave.
Yards here run on pressurized irrigation off the canal system, and untreated water does something different to a screen than it does to glass. On glass it dries as a film on a flat surface. In a screen it dries inside thousands of tiny square openings, and silt plus dissolved mineral effectively grouts the weave shut — lower-level screens on the sprinkler side of the house go noticeably dark while the upstairs ones still look fine. That's your tell. It also means pressure is exactly the wrong tool: enough force to break mineral out of the mesh is more than enough to stretch the screen or blow the vinyl spline out of its channel. We soak, brush the weave by hand, and final-rinse with deionized water so nothing dries back into the openings.
BanBury isn't a mid-century neighborhood, so the fragile old wood-and-thin-steel screen frames you have to worry about in a 1950s part of the valley generally aren't the issue here. What is: roll-form aluminum frames that are now twenty-some years old, with vinyl spline that's been sun-baked and gone brittle and plastic corner keys that crack if the frame gets flexed getting it out of the track. We test one screen on the sunny elevation first. If the spline is chalky or a corner key is already split, we say so and leave that screen in place rather than hand you a taco-shaped frame and a loose piece of mesh. Second-story and clerestory screens on the great-room walls come out with poles and a spotter, not by leaning a ladder on clad-wood trim.
Two honest calls. First, don't book screens in the middle of the cottonwood push. If the fluff is still flying, cleaning in late May buys you about two weeks — wait until it's done, usually mid-June, and one cleaning holds. Second, cleaning does not fix a screen that's finished. Aluminum mesh that has oxidized to a chalky gray, mesh that's stretched wavy from years of being hosed at, dents from a soccer ball or a dog — none of that comes back with washing, and a clean screen sometimes makes the waviness more obvious, not less. If yours are in that shape we'll tell you at the truck before we charge you for it. We clean screens; we don't rescreen them, and we'd rather point you at a rescreen than take money for a wash that won't change anything.
Screen cleaning is $50 added to a window service, and it's free once a year on any membership — Monthly or Quarterly, no contract, cancel anytime. That annual free screen clean is worth timing for June here, right after the cottonwood finishes. Screens come out, get tagged by opening so every one goes back in the window it came from, and go back in before we leave. Same-day and next-day slots are usually available. We're fully insured, locally owned, based in Meridian a few minutes down State Street, and started by Hunter Stevens and Ethan Seusy in 2025 — 4.9 stars across 115+ Google reviews. Call (208) 453-6760 for a firm number on your house.
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We can, but it isn't a cleaning. Spraying a screen in place pushes cottonwood and grit through the mesh and onto the glass behind it, and the mineral in the lower weave doesn't budge. Screens come out, get washed from the back side, and go back in tagged so each one returns to its own opening. If a frame is too brittle to remove safely, we leave it and tell you.
Usually, but not always. Twenty-plus-year-old aluminum frames in BanBury have brittle spline and plastic corner keys that crack under flex. We test one screen on the hot south or west elevation first. If it's degraded, we stop on that elevation rather than damaging the rest. Screens we won't risk get flagged for you instead of quietly skipped.
Sprinklers. The pressurized irrigation here is untreated canal water, and the spray reaches roughly the bottom three to four feet of the house. Silt and mineral dry inside the weave and close it up, which reads as a dark screen from outside and a hazy one from inside. Upper screens only get airborne dust, so they stay lighter. It's the water source, not neglect.
Mid-June, after the cottonwood along the river corridor finishes flying. Clean them while the fluff is still in the air and you'll be looking through matted mesh again in two weeks. If you're on a Quarterly membership, that's when we'd schedule your free annual screen clean — the other visits are windows only unless you ask.
Depends why they're cloudy. Cottonwood, pollen, and mineral come out. Oxidation — the chalky gray that rubs off on your hand — doesn't, and neither does mesh that's stretched wavy or dented. Those need rescreening, which we don't do. We'll look at yours and tell you which category they're in before you pay for a wash that won't change the view.
It's $50 added onto a window cleaning visit, and it's included free once a year on any membership. We do it alongside the windows because the screens have to come off anyway to clean the glass properly — doing both in one trip is the cheapest way to get it done. Call (208) 453-6760 and we'll price your house.
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