I have 10 screens stacked. Shot a good shot of screen magic on the front fliped the stack and shot a good shot of screen magic on the back. took my dry window brush and rubbed them up front and back… turned out great. The moral of the story is shooting front and back of a LARGE stack of screen saves product, time, and money. So much of screen magic gets wasted on blow through I always try and stack screens when ever possible even if their not all the same size.
I agree – I typically stack four at a time (matched sizes.)
I’ll try your ten next time.
Nice job Doc. Do you use a strip mop to rub it in or a different kind of brush? I tried using a dedicated strip mop for it, but it just seems to suck up the screen magic instead of spreading it around.
I’ve stacked this way in the past. The downside is the top screens will often get an excessive dose of SM which will transfer over to the glass the first hard rain. SM transfering to the window can be a real PITA. I have been using a folded huck towel to polish my screens out.
maybe this is for another thread but has any one tried applying Screen Magic with a roller? Maybe a small foam paint roller. I was thinking of trying it because I think the sprayer causes too much blow through. Any other techniques?
I use the cheapo yellow Costco microfibers to scrub the frames and polish the screening.
those things are awesome and super cheap! got a stack in my garage for anything that comes up
we will use the red tiger strip sleeve so there is no mistaking it. Yes it does dry out between jobs or days of use, to avoid the “suck up” we just dampen under a spigot first, snap out the excess and then start spraying the SM on it. Perfect
I tried the spraying in test use before sending the guys out with it and it will “stain” any concrete patio etc that it gets on, the overspray was a pain and who wants to breathe in the spray depending on the breeze? forget it, stripwasher had the most control and the least product usage for us.
we’ll dry brush too before to knock off the dust buildup, helps considerably
still not convinced it has no effect on jobs that are going to be wpoled in the future. I still see beading up etc, not as bad as Winsol’s screen cleaner, but it still mucks things up, too bad, shiny screens look good, but not good enough to add an hour to wpole work or gum up your glass washing stripwasher on future visits.
I do use a dedicated strip washer to clean the screens I think its much faster and you have more control over it than a micro fiber towel. i carry a second BOB on my hip for the screen cleaning strip washer.
So are some of you saying that you apply the screenmagic directly to a wet (water) strip washer and then onto the screen?
So there is no spraying of the screen itself?
I don’t know about everyone else, but I think Doc and I are both stacking the screens, spraying the front of the front screen and the back of the back screen, then rubbing it in with a dedicated strip mop, then using that same strip mop to rub the screen magic that’s already on it onto the other screens. They have some Screen Magic on them anyway, from the blow-thru. I go ahead and wipe all sides of the frames on each screen with a huck towel before putting them back in.
No spraying screen magic on a strip washer is a WASTE of money. When I meet Tim the inventor of screen magic he explained to me that screen magic actually breaks down the dust that’s on the screens into smaller particles then there are all the goodies that make the screens look like brand new.
What do you think of using armor all on screens? Will it make them look clean and new and protect them? Or not at all? Don’t use it? I was thinking of trying it?
Why?
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Are you guys kidding me? You all still use it? Nobody has ever noticed how hard it is to get off the glass after it rains? Alright, so please tell me I’m nuts. I must have been mixing it wrong.
I mixed one thing of concentrate into a 5 gallon home depot bucket and filled the rest with purified water. What gives?
What am I doing it wrong?
Armour all costs a lot more than sm. A lot more. I had a client use it on a sun screen once turned out great. Then six months later it acted like glue for dust, dirt, bugs, lint anything that flew through the air. Bottom line bad idea and a waste of mony
Ur mixing it right. But I spray the screen after I take it off the window. I don’t spray screens w glass behind them. I will shoot a sliding glass door screen door but after it’s clean I take a soapy strip mop wet and wash the s$?t out of the piece of glass.then I was it again and squeege. Do not let sm dry on glass and from my experience it’s hard to use wfp on glass that has wet or dry sm on it
LOL, haha, nononono…I don’t put it on while its in the frame Doc…I always take them out, etc…I sprayed them with the ace sprayer and pinch the spline and frames and let em dry while the windows are being done. Then we used to just put em back in. They looked great. Until we returned 3 months later, or after it rained I get called on a rain guarantee. That NEVER happened before. Every single one of them that was done with the SM was jacked up.
And very difficult to get clean. Thats what I was referring to, if any of you have had that happen to you.
Were you water fed poling?
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I haven’t done a lot but the ones I have done never had problems. Are you doing anything after spraying them? I go over each screen with micro fiber mitt after spraying. I’ve seen the video where dude is just spraying them and I’m sure that works too. I feel the screen magic goes further doing it my way?
