Ledgestone is about 253 homes off Stroebel and Moon Shadow with a 2,000-foot pathway following Mason Creek. The creekside band has a screen problem the interior streets do not, and it is biological rather than mineral.
Screens on the Mason Creek pathway catch plant litter, seed fragments and insect debris, and because the ambient humidity keeps everything damp, that material does not dry out and blow clear the way it would on an interior lot. Damp organic matter trapped in mesh grows mould and mildew, which shows as dark speckling across the screen and produces a genuinely musty smell when the window is opened on a warm day. It is growth rather than dirt, and it will not rinse out.
Hosing a mouldy screen displaces some of the visible material and leaves the organism in the weave, so it re-establishes and the speckling returns within weeks. The screen has to come out of the opening and both faces washed with a solution that actually kills the growth, then rinsed with deionized water. That is the difference between a screen that stays clear for a season and one that looks dirty again by the following month.
Two streets in from the pathway there is no creek influence, and those Ledgestone screens carry dry granule and wind-blown soil bound by sprinkler mineral, which is the standard new-subdivision situation. No growth, no musty smell, longer interval. Same builder and same HOA, two genuinely different services, which is why we assess the property rather than the subdivision.
Screen cleaning is +$50 added to a window clean, and both memberships include one free screen clean a year. Ledgestone plans run 1,364 to 3,250 square feet, so the larger ones have upper-floor screens above safe ladder height on 0.126 acre lots, which is a practical reason to have this done as part of a window visit rather than attempted separately. Only operable windows carry screens, so tall fixed stairwell glass adds none.
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Mould or mildew growing in damp organic debris trapped in the mesh. On the Mason Creek pathway band the ambient humidity keeps that material damp so it never dries and blows clear, and it produces a musty smell when the window is opened on a warm day.
Only briefly. Hosing displaces the visible material and leaves the organism in the weave, so the speckling returns within weeks. The screen needs to come out and both faces washed with a solution that kills the growth, then rinsed with deionized water.
No creek influence. Interior Ledgestone screens carry dry granule and wind-blown soil bound by sprinkler mineral, which is the standard new-subdivision situation with no growth and no musty smell. Two different services inside one HOA.
Yes, and that is a practical reason to have it done as part of a window visit. The larger Ledgestone plans put upper screens above safe ladder height on 0.126 acre lots. Only operable windows carry screens, so tall fixed stairwell glass adds none.
+$50 added to a window clean, since the screens are already out of the openings while we work the glass. Both memberships include one free screen clean each year, which on a creekside lot is worth using.
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