Fossil Creek sits at the Ten Mile and Deer Flat intersection that has been rebuilt into a roundabout, and its 272 homes are mostly inside their first few years. Construction silt is much finer than farm dust, and fine silt does something in a screen that coarse soil does not.
Coarse soil wedges between the strands of a screen. Fine construction silt is small enough to pass partly through, but a good share of it adheres to the strands themselves, coating each fibre and effectively thickening it. That reduces the open area of the mesh without visibly filling it, which is why a Fossil Creek screen can look reasonably clear from a distance and still noticeably dim the room behind it. It also reduces airflow, which people notice on the first warm evening they open the windows.
Rebuilding an intersection means months of open graded earth, staging areas and stop-and-go traffic immediately outside the subdivision, which keeps far more fine particulate airborne than a normal through-road. Homes on the north and east edges closest to the work load fastest. It is a temporary condition, and it means frequency rather than a different method: the screens simply need doing more often while the work continues.
We take each screen out of its opening, wash both faces so material adhering to the strands is lifted rather than driven through onto the glass, rinse with deionized water so nothing is left behind to attract the next round, and refit it in the opening it came from. Doing this with the screen still in the window is why hosed screens look cleaner and perform no better: the strand coating is on both sides and only accessible with the screen out.
Screen cleaning is +$50 with a window clean. On a new-build Fossil Creek home the right sequence matters: the screens come out, the glass gets its proper first clean including any construction residue, the screens are washed, and then everything goes back. Doing the glass with loaded screens still in place means dropping silt onto freshly cleaned panes. Both memberships include one free screen clean a year.
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Fine construction silt adheres to the individual strands and effectively thickens them, which reduces the open area of the mesh without visibly filling it. The screen looks reasonably clear from a distance while noticeably dimming the room, and airflow drops too.
Largely, especially on the north and east edges of Fossil Creek. Open graded earth, staging areas and stop-and-go traffic keep much more fine particulate airborne than a normal road. It is temporary, and it means doing the screens more often rather than differently.
Because the coating is on both sides of every strand and only accessible with the screen out of the opening. Hosing from one side drives some of it through onto the glass and leaves the rest. That is why hosed screens look cleaner without performing any better.
Screens out, glass cleaned including construction residue, screens washed, then everything refitted. Cleaning the glass with loaded screens still in place drops silt onto freshly cleaned panes, which is the usual reason a new-build window clean disappoints.
Screen cleaning is +$50 added to a window clean, since the screens are out of the openings anyway while we work the glass. Both Monthly and Quarterly membership include one free screen clean each year.
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