Kuna screens sit between open Birds of Prey desert on one side and working farmland on the other, with no river or windbreak in between, so whatever the wind carries that week ends up caught in the mesh. We pull every screen, hand-clean it with deionized water, and rehang it. $50 flat for the whole house.
Screen mesh works like a filter, and Kuna feeds it more than most valley towns. South and east of Avalon Street the irrigated ground stops and the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area takes over, half a million acres of sagebrush and cheatgrass with no trees to break the wind, throwing fine alkaline silt straight at the newest subdivisions on that edge of town. Frontal winds push it down the valley from the northwest, and calm nights bring a reverse drainage flow up off the same desert from the southeast. In between, working alfalfa, corn, sugar beet, wheat, and mint fields around Kuna Road, Deer Flat, Kuna-Mora, and Swan Falls Road get disced within sight of finished rooftops, and Kuna's growth, 11th-fastest among US cities of 20,000+ from 2024 to 2025, keeps raw graded dirt inside the city limits year-round. All of it ends up caught in the weave, not just sitting on the surface.
Most of Kuna runs on pressurized irrigation pulled from area canals off the New York Canal network, live roughly mid-April through mid-October, raw surface water carrying suspended silt, not treated tap water. On a flat pane, overspray mostly sheets off or wipes clean. On a screen, that same silt gets caught in the fiberglass weave and the aluminum frame track, where it dries, then gets baked by summer UV into a gray film a garden hose won't move. Homes with a first-floor window or slider facing a sprinkler zone, common on lots backing a canal lateral, see it worst. If your screens sit above the second floor or your lot has no pressurized irrigation running near the glass, this specific problem mostly doesn't apply to you, though desert and field dust still will.
Early-2000s Kuna, Crimson Point, Wild Meadows, Ryan Meadows, Arbor Ridge, mostly runs standard aluminum-framed screens in modest sizes, straightforward to pull and clean. The mid-2010s wave, Sterling Ranch, Silver Trail, Greyhawk, and Cloverdale Ridge Estates, added big front-facing great-room windows, so the screens got taller and heavier without changing the frame material. The newest wave, Valor, Paloma Ridge, Denali Heights, runs black-framed vinyl windows with oversized sliding patio door screens, and dark frames show dust and streaking on the mesh far more visibly than white or tan ever did. Old Town Kuna is its own case: original wood double-hung windows still carry older wood or aluminum storm screens that need more careful handling than anything vinyl. Out on the acreage belt along Swan Falls, Kuna-Mora, Hubbard, and Ten Mile, manufactured homes and shops often have screens that haven't come off the frame in years.
Hold a flashlight behind the mesh at night, or check it against bright sky. An even gray haze that dims the view but shows no holes is dust and silt buildup, that's a cleaning job, and it's most of what we see in Kuna. Small punctures, a corner peeling off the spline, or mesh that crumbles when you press a fingertip through it means the fiberglass has gone brittle from UV, common on south- and west-facing screens after a few Idaho summers, and no amount of cleaning fixes that; it needs a re-screen. A bent or bowed aluminum frame that won't sit flat in the track is a frame problem, not a mesh problem. And if your screens are newer, face north or east, and your lot isn't backed up to a field, canal, or open desert, you honestly may not need this service yet, once a year is plenty for most interior-neighborhood homes.
We pull every screen off the frame, hand-wash the mesh and track with deionized water, no soap, so nothing dries back into new spotting, and rehang them, checking each one for tears, bent corners, or a spline starting to pull loose while we're at it. It's $50 flat for every screen on the house, regardless of count, which is different from our per-pane window pricing since screens are priced by the job rather than by glass area. If you're on a quarterly membership, one screen clean is already included free each year; this is the standalone option for anyone who wants it done sooner, or who only wants screens without the windows. Same-day and next-day slots are usually open. Call or text (208) 453-6760.
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It's a flat $50 for every screen on the house, hand-cleaned and rehung, not priced per screen or per window. That covers pulling each one, washing the mesh and frame track with deionized water, and a quick check for tears or bent corners. If you're already on a quarterly membership, one screen clean is included free each year, so this flat rate is really for standalone bookings or anyone wanting it sooner.
Yes. Screen cleaning is its own service, $50 flat, separate from exterior window cleaning. Plenty of Kuna homeowners book it on its own, especially heading into summer when field dust and irrigation silt are worst, or right after fire season smoke settles ash on everything in August.
No, cleaning removes dust, silt, and grime from the mesh, but it can't repair a puncture, a corner pulling off the spline, or fiberglass that's gone brittle from UV. If a screen is actually damaged we'll flag it during the visit so you know whether it needs a patch or a full re-screen instead of another cleaning.
Both. Kuna sees real raptor and starling traffic, it's the Gateway to the Birds of Prey for a reason, and droppings on sills and screens are more than cosmetic. Left on through a hot summer, the acidity can degrade fiberglass mesh and stain vinyl frames faster than plain dust does, so it's worth getting them off sooner rather than later.
It depends on where your lot sits. Homes backing a field, a canal lateral, or open BLM ground toward the Birds of Prey NCA usually need it once or twice a year, the mesh reloads fast there. Interior-neighborhood homes away from irrigation overspray and away from the desert edge can often go a full year or longer between cleanings.
Yes, if they're standard window screens. Out on Swan Falls, Kuna-Mora, Hubbard, and Ten Mile Road properties, a lot of jobs include a shop or barn alongside the house, we'll clean any screen on the property within the same visit. Ask when you book and we'll quote any extra structures up front.
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