Interested in a consensus here in how you clean screens? Dry Brush? Scrub/wipe-down with applicator? Screen Magic?
I currently scrub with soap applicator and wipe-down with towel. Interested in others’ techniques?
I use a screen cleaner. Does a great job of wetting and scrubbing loose the dirt and pollen. I use a scrub pad to do the frame by hand then rinse/scrub with the washer. Tap excess water off with a hand towel and towel dry final left over moisture before reinstalling on the window.
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Depends on the job for us; if we’ve serviced their screens in the past and with what regularity.
For annual cleans we use a wet/dry vac with a brush head and damp microfiber for the frames.
For first time cleans or cleans following site work we go the soap/water route with a T-bar.
Used to use “Screen Magic,” but not a fan after returning to clean jobs the following year; rain pulls oily residue from the screens on to the windows and that residue flattens the suds in our cleaning solution. (Dawn dish soap.)
If your going to go that way to “restore” greying screens, might as well use armour-all, same effect and cheaper.
Thank you for the reply.
Thank you for the reply. I assume you charge extra for screens when using screen cleaner such as this.
screen machine when we have a lot of screens. If they are more than a few years old we do them by hand. We find streaks from the screen machine if the screens are aging too much. We rinse, rinse, rinse and then tap dry and add supper thick to a sponge and wipe them down. This makes them look awesome. Solar screens we used very low psi or an hose with nozzle and wash by hand. If the screen is black we use super thick.
Charge $2-3 regular screen and $5+ solar screen
We’ve done hundreds of screens this month alone and didn’t look back to getting a screen cleaner. Basically, cleans really well and it’s a time saver. Plus, the impressions it makes to owners or neighbors is hard to describe.
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I do, if the windows don’t have screens there is no screen cleaning charge. Probably 70-80% of the window jobs I do have screens.
I used to dry brush screens as an always offered free option but found the results came out worse sometimes. Now I only use my screen cleaner and either charge $4 a screen & $10 a patio door screen or include it for free as part of the in/out package.
This helps to land more higher ticket jobs or if the customer chooses an outside only clean while paying for the screen cleaning I find the combined time of removing, cleaning, wiping frames and reinstalling the screens comes close to $80-$100 an hour.
Well its true that offering the cleaning for free as part of the in/out package brings the hourly down a bit on those jobs, they need to be taken off anyways usually and my goal for this year is to increase each jobs ticket value and minimize travel time overall.
Long story short… I love the results the screen cleaner produces!
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Thank you! Great to know!
hose them out or screen washer
We used Heat Wave right at the window emphasized text it’s from pro teck carpet spotter
