Bayhill's screens are as old as the houses — original frames from the 1998 build-out, now roughly 28 seasons deep in cottonwood fluff off the pond and stream corridor, pollen from a canopy that has fully grown in, and silt blowing off the farm ground west of Nampa.
Every spring the cottonwoods along Bayhill's stream corridor and the pond edges drop seed fluff for about three weeks, and screens are what catch it. Dust sits on mesh and blows back off. Cottonwood does not — the fluff is fibrous, it hooks into the weave, and once it gets damp from sprinkler overspray or a pond mist it mats down into a felt layer you can see the light change through. On a west-facing bedroom screen we have pulled mats thick enough to cut the airflow noticeably, which is why people notice it as a stuffy room before they notice it as a dirty screen. It does not brush out dry without pushing the fibers deeper into the weave. It has to come out wet, off the house, laid flat.
The trees planted when Bayhill went in are close to thirty years old now, so a lot of these lots have real canopy over them instead of the young sticks you see in newer Nampa subdivisions. That shade is worth having, but it means cottonwood, maple and locust pollen falls straight down onto screens for most of April, May and June. Pollen is fine enough to bed into the fiberglass weave rather than sit on it, and once Nampa's hard well water hits it from a sprinkler zone, it cements into a gray-green film. Wiping a screen in place with a rag just polishes that film and pushes half of it onto the glass you paid to have cleaned. That is the main reason we do screens off the house and before the glass, not after.
Bayhill is not uniformly canopied. The lots on the west and south edges of the neighborhood sit more open toward the farm ground and the Lake Lowell flats, and the northwest wind that Nampa gets through spring carries fine agricultural silt across them. Any lot with recent construction next door — a rebuild, a shop, a pool going in — loads screens the same way with concrete and saw dust, which is heavier and more abrasive than field silt. Grit is the debris that actually wears a screen out: it works into the weave and every wipe drags it across the fibers like sandpaper. On these elevations we rinse loose grit off before anything touches the mesh, so we are not grinding it in. Screens on exposed lots here usually need attention twice a year, not once.
Bayhill screens are roll-formed aluminum or vinyl from the late-1990s build, not the thin mid-century frames you find in Nampa's older core neighborhoods off 12th Avenue — but at this age they behave similarly. The corner keys get brittle, the spline hardens and shrinks, and the frame will rack out of square if you flex it. We carry them flat, wash them flat on a padded surface, and dry them before they go back in. Honest note: if a frame is already bowed, the spline is cracked, or the mesh has a tear at a corner, cleaning it will probably finish it off. We will show you the frame and tell you to plan on a rescreen instead of charging you $50 to wash something that is going to come apart in our hands. A rescreen is not something we do, and we will say so.
Screen cleaning is $50 added to a window service, and it is free once a year on any membership, Monthly or Quarterly, with no contract. On a Bayhill house that usually pencils out, because the pond mist, canopy pollen and irrigation overspray here reload screens faster than on a small city lot. We pull screens, tag them by opening so every one goes back where it came from, hand wash the mesh, rinse, dry flat, then clean the glass with 100% pure deionized water and no soap. Doing it in that order matters — screen grit rinsed onto fresh glass is the most common way a window job gets undone the same afternoon. Bayhill is gated, so we arrange the code or vendor access ahead of time. Same-day and next-day slots are usually open. Fully insured, locally owned, founded in 2025 by Hunter Stevens and Ethan Seusy, 4.9 stars across 115+ Google reviews.
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Yes, if you can. Cottonwood along the stream and pond edges usually runs about three weeks in late May into June. Cleaning screens in the middle of it means they reload within days. We would rather book you right after the drop finishes so the clean actually holds. If you have a stuffy bedroom or an allergy problem in the meantime, we will do it anyway and tell you up front it is a short-lived clean.
We do not, and you should be skeptical of anyone who does. Wiping mesh in place presses pollen and grit through the weave onto the glass behind it, and it polishes the film instead of removing it. It also loads the frame sideways, which is a real risk on frames from the 1998 build. We pull each screen, tag it to its opening, wash it flat, and put it back in the same window.
Usually not, but some are. At roughly 28 years the corner keys get brittle and the spline hardens, so we handle them flat and never flex the frame. If we find a bowed frame, cracked spline, or mesh torn at a corner, we will show you and recommend a rescreen rather than clean it. We do not charge for a screen we advise you not to have washed.
Usually canopy and exposure. Lots under mature trees take a heavier pollen load straight down; lots on the open west and south edges of Bayhill take field silt off the farm ground on the northwest wind. Add a sprinkler zone that hits a screen directly and Nampa's hard well water cements the whole mix in place. Two houses on the same street can be on completely different schedules because of it.
Once a year covers most homes here, timed for right after the cottonwood drop ends in June. Screens on the exposed west and south lots, screens next to an active construction site, and screens facing the ponds usually want twice a year. If you are on a membership the annual screen clean is included, so the only question is whether you want a second pass added.
Yes. Screen cleaning is a flat $50 added to a window service, not per screen, so a Bayhill home with a great-room window wall and a tall entry is not penalized for having more of them. On any membership, Monthly or Quarterly, one screen cleaning per year is included at no charge. No contract either way, and every visit carries our 7-Day Rain Guarantee.
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