Crimson Point went up in Kuna's first tract wave between 2000 and 2008, which means its screens have had the longest run of canal-irrigation exposure of any subdivision in the city. Twenty years of mineral in mesh behaves differently from twenty years of mineral on glass.
Every irrigation cycle that passes mineral-bearing canal water through a screen leaves a trace, and over twenty-plus seasons those traces build into a genuinely bound layer cementing dust into the weave. This is not loose dirt. A Crimson Point screen that has never been properly washed can have substantially reduced open area, which cuts both light and airflow, and it will not respond to brushing, shaking or hosing. It needs removing and both faces worked.
Screens from the 2000 to 2008 build wave are approaching or past twenty years, and fibreglass mesh degrades under UV until it goes chalky and tears under handling, while the spline hardens and shrinks until the mesh comes loose at a corner. We check condition before washing, because a screen in that state is not a cleaning job. Where we find it, we say so rather than handing you a torn screen, and rescreening becomes the honest recommendation.
Crimson Point lots were planted out over twenty years ago, so the trees and foundation shrubs put in at construction have filled in. That means these screens now catch pollen, seed fragments and leaf debris that they did not in 2005, and where canopy overhangs, aphid honeydew as well. Honeydew is sticky and turns mesh into flypaper for everything arriving afterwards, and it needs dissolving rather than rinsing.
Screen cleaning is +$50 added to a window clean, and both memberships include one free screen clean a year. On a screen with twenty years of bound mineral the first clean makes the largest difference it will ever make, and it may not return the mesh to looking new, because long-term mineral exposure can leave the strands permanently dulled. We say which yours is before rather than after.
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A great deal of it, with the screen out and both faces worked. Two decades of canal mineral cements dust into the weave as a bound layer rather than loose dirt, so brushing, shaking and hosing achieve nothing. It may not return to looking new, and we will say so beforehand.
Sometimes not, which is why we check first. Screens from the 2000 to 2008 wave are around or past twenty years, and fibreglass mesh degrades under UV until it tears under handling while the spline hardens and lets the mesh loose. We will not wash something that needs rescreening.
Mature landscaping. The trees and shrubs planted when Crimson Point was built have filled in over twenty years, so the screens now catch pollen, seed fragments and leaf debris they did not in 2005, plus aphid honeydew where canopy overhangs.
Yes. A clean screen is roughly half open area, and a bound mineral layer cuts that substantially, so rooms behind loaded screens are dimmer and airflow on a warm evening is noticeably worse. It is a functional issue as much as a cosmetic one.
+$50 added to a window clean, since the screens are out of the openings anyway while we work the glass. Both memberships include one free screen clean each year.
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