Repairing Screens & Storms

To improve the view through your windows, consider replacing the screens.  Sagging fiberglass screens look terrible, and rusty metal screens darken rooms.  The window screens and storms in your home may be the kind you can remove, or they may be aluminum-frame combination storm and screen windows you can leave in place year round. Chances are the frames themselves won't need attention nearly as often as the screen. The frames may be wood or metal, the screen either metal

( typically aluminum) or fiberglass.

REPLACING SCREEN IN AN ALUMINUM FRAME

1.  Remove old screen

      Pry off the splines and pull out the screen. Cut new screen the same size as the frame's

      Outer dimensions, squaring the corners. Place the screen flush with the channel's outer edge

      On one end and side.

2.   FIT NEW SCREEN INTO FRAME

      Bend the screen into the channel at the end of the frame, using the convex wheel of a 

      Spline roller or a putty knife. Use a wood block to weight down the screen.

3.   REPLACE THE SPLINE

      Push the spline back into the channel, using the concave wheel of the roller or a wood

      Block and hammer. Holding the screen's edge tight, insert spline in the other end and sides.