A window screen is a filter nobody changes, and in Eagle it catches two opposite things at once: sharp granitic grit blown down off the Willow Creek foothills, and cottonwood seed fluff drifting off Eagle Island by the river. We pull every screen, wash it flat in pure deionized water, and reset it. $50 flat.
A window screen is a filter nobody ever cleans, and Eagle is the one valley city that loads it from two directions at once. North of Floating Feather and Beacon Light, where the ground climbs into the Eagle Foothills, screens fill with sharp, pale, mica-flecked decomposed-granite grit off gravel drives, private lanes and horse arenas, driven into the mesh by afternoon northwest wind and the nightly down-canyon flow out of Willow Creek and Dry Creek. Drop three hundred feet toward the Boise River and it flips to organic: cottonwood seed fluff off Eagle Island, riverbottom midges, and orb-weaver webs spun across the reveal. In Two Rivers, the 17 lakes and 41 waterfalls add a constant fine mineral mist that dries onto lakeside screens year round. Two halves of one ZIP code, two completely different things packed into the weave.
Roughly 57 percent of Eagle's housing went up after 2000, and the screens follow the build. The dominant type is a full screen on a clad-wood Andersen, Pella or Marvin window with simulated divided lites and exterior grilles — Two Rivers, BanBury and Corrente Bello — where the grille bars and deep reveals trap grit the mesh alone would shed. Mid-2000s and 2010s builds in Lexington Hills, Brookwood, Ashbury and Mace River Ranch run lighter vinyl casement and slider screens with soft corner keys and thin spline. Then there is Eagle Hills, the late-1960s-through-early-1980s ranch stock around the golf course, where the screens are aluminum-frame sliders with chalky, oxidized frames that crease if you flex them wrong. One thing owners always overguess: the two-story great-room glass and the arched transoms carry no screen at all, so the real count runs lower than you think.
Two things mat an Eagle screen solid. On the river side, late May and June bring cottonwood seed fluff off Eagle Island and the greenbelt in drifts that pack into the weave and the slider track along with the season's first pollen. On the foothills side, decomposed-granite grit does not smear so much as embed — it works into the mesh and abrades it, and a grilled clad-wood window holds it in every bar. Add orb-weaver webs, which reappear in the reveal and soffit within weeks all summer, and waterfowl mess on skylights near the river and the Two Rivers lakes. If you are timing one clean, go mid-June once the cottonwood quits, or early fall before inversion season drops a greasy film on the north-facing glass. Both are the natural moment to pair it with a window cleaning.
Every screen comes out and gets laid flat on a pad. Nothing gets scrubbed against the glass in place — that just drives granite grit through the mesh and down onto the sill and the vinyl track. Both faces get a soft brush to break the film and lift packed grit, then a full flush with 100% pure deionized water and no soap. Soap matters more on screens than on glass: whatever stays in the weave stays tacky, grabs the next round of foothills dust inside a week, and the first sprinkler cycle runs it straight down the pane. Eagle's tap water is very hard, commonly cited around 14 grains per gallon, so hose-rinsing a screen trades dust for calcium spotting on the mesh and frame. Deionized water carries no minerals and dries clean. Screens go back in their own openings, and we check the seat before we leave.
Stand inside, three feet back, and look through a screened window at something with detail — a fence board, a neighbor's stone wainscot — then through an unscreened window on the same wall. If the screened view is hazy and the bare one is sharp, the screen is the problem, not the glass. Next, run a finger down the mesh. Dry, pale tan powder that keeps coming is foothills granite. A gritty gray-green crust on the bottom rail is dried canal-irrigation overspray, which usually means a sprinkler head is aimed at the house — fix the head first or you will pay for this again next month. Honest version: if your screens are newer, on the sheltered east side, and out of any spray, you can skip this. And if the mesh is torn, dented or bellied out of the frame, washing will not fix it. That is a rescreen, not a clean.
Fifty dollars covers every screen on the house, hand-cleaned — not per screen, not per window. A Two Rivers two-story might have sixteen; an Eagle Hills ranch with aluminum sliders might have twenty-two, and the price does not move. Most people book it alongside a window cleaning, since loaded mesh and dirty glass re-soil each other and doing one without the other is half a job. Monthly and Quarterly members get their annual screen clean free, with no contract, and quarterly service runs about $100 less per cleaning than one-off work. Glass work carries a 7-Day Rain Guarantee. Reflekt is locally owned and fully insured, founded in 2025 by Hunter Stevens and Ethan Seusy, rated 4.9 stars across 115+ Google reviews. Same-day and next-day slots open Monday through Saturday, 7am to 7pm, closed Sunday. Call (208) 453-6760.
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$50 flat for every screen on the house, hand-cleaned, however many there are. A clad-wood two-story in Two Rivers and a single-story Eagle Hills ranch pay the same — it is not priced per screen. It is usually booked alongside a window cleaning, since the two jobs undo each other if you only do one. Monthly and Quarterly members get one screen cleaning free every year.
You can, and on light dust it helps. Two warnings from doing this for a living. Never pressure wash a screen — it blows the mesh loose from the spline and permanently bows those light vinyl frames and creases the old aluminum ones in Eagle Hills. And do not hose-rinse and walk away: Eagle tap water runs very hard, around 14 grains, so you trade dust for hard-water spotting baked onto the mesh and frame.
Pull the screen and wash it flat rather than picking at it in place. Cottonwood fluff off Eagle Island mats deep into the weave every May and June and clogs the slider track under it, so it has to be flushed out, not brushed. Orb-weaver webs come back in the reveal and soffit all summer no matter what — cleaning strips the current web and the egg debris, but expect them again. Skip oily home sprays on the mesh; they trap grit the rest of the season.
Yes, and there is no upcharge for upper floors. Most of Eagle's post-2000 homes in Two Rivers, BanBury and Mace River Ranch are two-story with a bonus room, so the bedroom and bonus screens sit well above tight foundation planting. We bring those screens down and wash them flat, same as the ground floor. The tall great-room glass itself usually has no screen, which keeps the count lower than people expect.
Probably the sprinkler, not the screen. Almost every Eagle subdivision irrigates with untreated pressurized water from New Dry Creek Ditch and the Farmers Union Canal — silty, hard, and full of organics. Rotary and impact heads throw a gray-green mineral film across the bottom three or four feet of glass, stucco skirt and stone veneer, and it recoats every cycle from spring through fall. Cleaning helps, but re-aiming the head is what actually stops it.
Yes. The 1970s and 80s ranches around Eagle Hills Golf Course run aluminum-frame slider screens with chalky, oxidized frames that crease if you flex them, so we handle them gently and wash them flat with a soft brush, never a pressure washer. If we find a frame already bent, mesh pulling loose from the spline, or dry-rotted corner keys, we show you before forcing anything back in rather than making the damage worse.
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