Sterling Ranch went up between 2015 and 2020 with two-story great-room glass, tall stairwell windows and hip-and-gable rooflines that funnel every valley into a couple of short runs. Where the water concentrates, the silt concentrates, and the screens below it take the worst of it.
A hip-and-gable roofline funnels four or five planes into a small number of valleys, and everything those planes collect, canal silt, shingle granule and dust, moves through those valleys. On a heavy rain or a sprinkler cycle hitting the roof, that concentrated flow overshoots or splashes off the gutter and lands on whatever is below, which on Sterling Ranch is frequently the great-room and stairwell area. The screens in that zone load noticeably faster than screens on a straightforward gable elevation.
The walls of glass these plans are known for are largely fixed, and fixed panes carry no screens, so the screen count on a Sterling Ranch house is lower than the glazing area suggests. The screens you do have are on the operable windows flanking those fixed panes and in the bedrooms, and they are the ones that matter for airflow. That makes the +$50 add-on cover proportionally more house here than on a plan of many small operable windows.
Untreated Boise-Kuna canal water carrying suspended silt and dissolved mineral is what feeds every sprinkler here, and where roof-concentrated flow or sprinkler overspray repeatedly wets the same screens, the mineral cements the accumulated dust into the weave as it dries. That bound layer will not shake or brush out. It needs the screen out of the opening and both faces worked, then a deionized rinse so nothing is left to attract the next round.
Screen cleaning is +$50 added to a window clean, and both memberships include one free screen clean a year. The upper-floor screens beside the tall stairwell glass need safe access, which is the practical reason to have this done during a window visit rather than separately. Built 2015 to 2020, these screens are still well within their service life, so cleaning rather than rescreening is almost always the answer here.
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Roof geometry. A hip-and-gable roofline funnels four or five planes into a few valleys, and the concentrated flow overshoots or splashes off the gutter onto whatever is below. Screens in that zone, often around the great-room and stairwell, load far faster than others.
Mostly not. Those large panes are largely fixed, and fixed glass carries no screens, so your screen count is lower than the glazing area suggests. The screens you have are on the operable windows flanking them and in the bedrooms.
Not here. Mineral in the canal water cements accumulated dust into the weave as it dries, so it is a bound layer rather than loose dirt. It needs the screen out of the opening, both faces worked, and a deionized rinse afterwards.
Almost certainly not. Built between 2015 and 2020, these screens are still well within their service life, so cleaning rather than rescreening is nearly always the answer in Sterling Ranch. We will say if we find an exception.
+$50 added to a window clean, since the screens are out of the openings anyway while we work the glass. Both memberships include one free screen clean each year.
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