Lugarno Terra is 114 homes on 42 acres at Meridian Road and Deer Flat, averaging about 0.30 acres. Which side of the subdivision you are on decides what is in your screens, and the two situations need different handling.
Homes on the Meridian Road boundary have screens acting as filters in an oily aerosol of tire wear, brake dust and exhaust particulate. That film coats each strand and then holds every subsequent bit of dust rather than letting it pass, so the loading is greasy to the touch and it repels water. Interior-lot screens in the same subdivision carry ordinary dry dust bound by sprinkler mineral. Same HOA, two different cleaning problems, which is why we look rather than assume.
An oily film beads water off, so hosing a frontage screen achieves very little and pressure drives the film deeper into the weave. It needs a solution that emulsifies the oil so the whole load rinses away, applied with the screen out of the opening so both faces are accessible. People frequently conclude highway-side screens are permanently discoloured when they have simply never been washed properly.
One advantage of an average 0.30 acre lot is that the sprinkler heads sit well back from the openings, so less mineral-bearing canal water reaches the mesh directly than on Kuna's 0.12 acre lots. Interior-lot screens here are therefore less firmly cemented than their equivalents in tight subdivisions, and they come clean more readily. It is a real difference, and it means interior homes can run a longer interval than frontage homes can.
Screen cleaning is +$50 added to a window clean, and both memberships include one free screen clean a year. Plans run 1,838 to 3,532 square feet, so screen counts vary, and only operable windows carry screens, so large fixed glass adds none. On a wide plan the count can be higher than a taller house of similar size, so we count rather than estimate.
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You are likely on the Meridian Road frontage. Your screens act as filters in an oily aerosol of tire wear, brake dust and exhaust particulate, which coats each strand and then holds subsequent dust rather than letting it pass through.
Because an oily film repels water, so the hose beads off, and pressure drives the film deeper into the weave. It needs a solution that emulsifies the oil, applied with the screen out of the opening so both faces are reachable.
Yes, on both counts. They carry ordinary dry dust rather than oily film, and at an average 0.30 acres the sprinkler heads sit well back so less mineral-bearing canal water reaches the mesh directly. They come clean more readily and can run a longer interval.
Often not, they have simply never been properly washed. Greasy highway loading looks like permanent staining and frequently is not. We will tell you honestly if mesh is genuinely degraded rather than loaded, since rescreening is a real cost.
+$50 added to a window clean, since the screens are out of the openings anyway. Only operable windows carry screens, so large fixed glass adds none, and we count what is actually there rather than estimating from square footage.
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