Silver Falls is 63 homes off Placerville Street with the widest spread of construction dates in Kuna. On the older streets the question is often not how dirty a screen is but whether it can survive being cleaned.
Fibreglass insect screen degrades under UV. After enough Idaho summers it loses flexibility, goes slightly chalky, and will tear or hole under handling that a newer screen shrugs off. Aluminium mesh corrodes and work-hardens instead, and it creases permanently once bent. On older Silver Falls homes we check the mesh condition before washing, because a screen that has reached that state is not a cleaning job and pretending otherwise means handing you a torn screen.
The spline is the rubber cord pressing the mesh into the frame channel, and it hardens and shrinks over two decades. Once it has, the mesh comes loose at a corner or a whole edge, and the screen will not survive removal and refitting intact. That is worth knowing before we take it out of the opening rather than after, so we look first and tell you which screens are sound, which are marginal, and which want rescreening.
Where a screen needs rescreening rather than washing, saying so means we do not charge to clean it, and we would rather do that than take money for a job that ends with a torn screen and an unhappy customer. On the newer Silver Falls streets none of this applies and the screens wash normally. Because these 63 homes span such a range, we assess rather than quoting from the address.
The older streets here have grown-in landscaping, so those screens catch pollen, seed fragments and aphid honeydew from overhanging canopy rather than the mineral dust that loads new-subdivision screens. Honeydew is sticky and turns mesh into flypaper for subsequent debris, and it has to be dissolved rather than rinsed. Screen cleaning is +$50 with a window clean and both memberships include one free screen clean a year.
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Some can and some cannot, which is why we check first. Fibreglass mesh degrades under UV until it goes chalky and tears under handling, and aluminium mesh corrodes and creases permanently. A screen in that state is not a cleaning job.
It is the rubber cord pressing the mesh into the frame channel, and it hardens and shrinks over two decades. Once it has, the mesh comes loose at a corner or edge and the screen will not survive removal and refitting intact. We look before taking it out.
No. Where a screen needs rescreening rather than washing we say so and do not charge to clean it, because the alternative is handing you a torn screen. We would rather lose the fee than do that.
No, and that is why we assess rather than quoting from the address. These 63 homes span the widest range of construction dates in Kuna, so the newer streets wash normally while the older ones need checking first.
Aphid honeydew from overhanging mature canopy, which the older streets here have and most of Kuna does not. It is sticky, it turns the mesh into flypaper for subsequent debris, and it has to be dissolved rather than rinsed away.
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