Ruby Creek is the 45-home Riverwood phase completing Crimson Point, off Shayla Avenue. New screens are not clean screens, and the first clean on a new build is the one that matters most.
A screen installed during construction spends months in the dustiest environment that house will ever experience: drywall sanding, concrete cutting, framing sawdust and general site dust. Much of that is still in the mesh when the keys are handed over, and builder final cleans rarely include taking screens out. So a Ruby Creek screen can be brand new and already noticeably loaded, which surprises people who assume new means clean.
Drywall and concrete dust are much finer than soil, and they adhere to individual strands rather than wedging between them, effectively thickening each fibre and reducing the open area of the mesh without visibly filling it. That is why a new screen can look clear while dimming the room behind it. It is also why hosing it drives that fine material through onto the glass, which is a poor trade on a window you just had cleaned.
Screens out first, glass cleaned properly including any construction residue, screens washed on both faces and rinsed with deionized water, then everything refitted in the openings it came from. Doing the glass with loaded screens still in place drops construction dust onto freshly cleaned panes, and it is the most common reason a new homeowner's first professional window clean underwhelms. It costs nothing extra to do it in the right order.
Screen cleaning is +$50 added to a window clean, and both memberships include one free screen clean a year. After the first clean the ongoing situation here is easier than in early-phase subdivisions: as the final phase of a 45-lot development, Ruby Creek is largely past the continuous construction dust that keeps reloading screens in a 450-lot build-out, so an ordinary rhythm is realistic from here.
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Because they spent months during construction in the dustiest environment the house will ever see: drywall sanding, concrete cutting and framing sawdust. Much of that is still in the mesh at handover, and builder final cleans rarely include removing screens.
Drywall and concrete dust are much finer than soil, so they adhere to individual strands rather than wedging between them, thickening each fibre and reducing the open area without visibly filling the mesh. The screen reads as clear while cutting light.
It would drive that fine material through the mesh onto the glass, which is a poor trade on a window you just had cleaned. The screens need to come out and be washed on both faces, then rinsed so nothing remains to attract more dust.
Screens out, glass cleaned including construction residue, screens washed, then everything refitted. Cleaning glass with loaded screens still in place drops construction dust onto fresh panes, and it is the usual reason a first professional clean underwhelms.
No. As the final phase of a 45-lot development, Ruby Creek is largely past the continuous construction dust that keeps reloading screens through a 450-lot build-out, so after the first clean an ordinary rhythm is realistic.
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