Do you wash your window screens?

[RevCheesehead]

Now that the temps are lower, the windows are open, but the screens are surprisingly filthy. Do you wash your screens in mid-season? What works well, besides soaking them (or part of them) in the tub?

[Droopy]

1. I don't have any screens

I sure wish I did so I could open the place up and let it air out. I don't know what it would cost to get screens for my place.

[Burma Jones]

2. I use Linux.......

[Webster Green]

8. LOL!

Linux!
:rofl:

[cally]

3. I found this screen cleaner

at Bed, Bath and Beyond. It was about $5, it's yellow, and hard. I forget what it's called but it works surprisingly well. I use that and then rinse them off.

[RevCheesehead]

22. Is it some kind of soap?

or are you talking about a cleaning brush?

[cally]

23. No, it's like a hard sponge

I think it's the same thing they advertise for removing dog hair. It' works on the screens.

[RevCheesehead]

25. Cool! I've got one of those!

I think it's called a Pet Hair Magnet. I'll try it tomorrow.

[Silverhair]

4. Isn't that what rain is for?

Temp hit 100 degrees here today. What's this "lower" business??

[RevCheesehead]

7. Ahhh - it's 64 degrees outside right now.

Expected low for tonight: 47.

[Silverhair]

18. We have many winter days where it doesn't get down to 50. NT

[RevCheesehead]

19. That's why you live there,

and why I live here. Give me the cold, any day!

[Silverhair]

20. If we get one inch of snow on the ground

everybody goes nuts. Schools close. It happens about every 3 or 4 years.

[Lady Effingbroke]

5. I wash my window screens occasionally.

I wipe them down the best I can, then I remove them from the window frame, take them outside, and hose 'em off.

[short bus president]

6. Why?

All the gross stuff is on the outside...

[GOPisEvil]

9. Temps are lower?

Really?

Could have fooled me. :D

Er, no, never washed a screen. :)

[RevCheesehead]

10. Well, not for those who live in the Inferno.

But around here, yeah - it's gorgeous!!! :bounce:

[Tallison]

11. No, but I've vacuumed them.

But I vacuum everything. It's my favorite chore. :D

[RevCheesehead]

12. How do you do that?

Do you put a newspaper behind it for suction? Or go outside and suck out the air from your home?

[Tallison]

13. It's always worked without a backing for suction

I suppose if they were real filthy you could take out the screens and lie them on the floor for a little extra 'whatever.' The furthest outside I've taken the vacuum is the porch. Yes, I vacuum the porch, too.

[RevCheesehead]

14. Wow.

Can I hire you to clean my house?

[BlueJazz]

15. I bring the hose inside, put some old towels around the window sill..

...and spray them toward the yard....cleans them right up....and it's fast...

[ScreamingMeemie]

16. I use CLR and they come out just like new.

:hi:

[Left Is Write]

17. Usually just in the spring.

[CatholicEdHead]

21. Only use water

any harsh chemicals will hurt the electronics.

[yvr girl]

24. My disdain is enough to keep the bugs out

I don't have any screens.

[Kool Kitty]

27. Good tip!

I'll have to try it, because I almost never clean my screens and they are really a disgrace. I'm going to have to try something, because they barely let the air in anymore.

[WCGreen]

26. A hose and a scrub brush.......

[Rhiannon12866]

28. No, but this is quite a coincidence...

I've never even considered washing the screens, but when I was pulling out of the driveway, tonight, I caught sight of the ones in the front and they looked terrible! I'd be interested in knowing what other people do. I was thinking pressure wash? (We've got one of those machines...):shrug:

[RevCheesehead]

30. Well, OK,

but make sure the windows are closed. :)

Actually, you're better off if you remove the screens first and spray away from the dirt (i.e., spray from the inside to outside.) Otherwise, you might embed the dirt further.

[Rhiannon12866]

32. Yes, I was planning to remove the screens, LOL!

I cannot imagine what this might do to the inside of the house, if I left them in the windows, given the pressure!
:scared:

Thanks for the good advice...:pals:

[hickman1937]

29. I usually ignore the screens.

I use the ER bar. When you're lying in the ER dying, what will you regret the most? I'm thinking, for me, that I didn't buy and read that book about Anne of Cleves(one of my hero's) not that I didn't clean the screens, or the top of the armoire, or the floor behind the downstairs bathroom toilet last month. But then, I'm a Taurus.

[Heidi]

31. I wish I had window screens to wash.

Alas, though, window screens are not among the "features" of Swiss homes. Hence, I spend much of the summer covered with mosquqito bites. :cry: