How To Clean Window
Screens in Naples FL

All window cleaning pricing is based on a free online quote — the number of windows and screens, the number of stories, and whether hard water treatment is needed determine the final price. Screen cleaning is typically done together with window cleaning. These are honest starting ranges for Naples:

We provide window and screen cleaning in Naples FL and throughout Southwest Florida:

The easiest way to wreck a window screen is during removal, not washing. Before anything comes out, each screen gets a small strip of painter’s tape on the frame with a number that matches a note on the window, so the bedroom screen does not end up forced into a kitchen opening it was never cut for. Most residential screens release by pressing the frame toward the spring side or pulling the tabs; prying at a corner with a tool is what kinks the frame.

Carry screens by the long edges, upright, and never stack them flat on top of one another on the driveway, because grit pressed into the mesh scratches the glass later. A clean tarp on the lawn or a pair of sawhorses makes a good washing station, and it keeps the wash water off concrete you would otherwise have to rinse again.

Window makers keep their screen instructions short, and they are worth following because the mesh and frame came from them. Andersen’s insect screen guidance calls for mild soap, fresh water and a soft-bristled brush, followed by rinsing thoroughly with fresh water and drying the frame completely with a soft, dry cloth. It also suggests an aerosol corrosion inhibitor on the frame as routine maintenance and advises against painting the frame; a tired-looking screen should be replaced instead.

On timing, Andersen says screens should be cleaned at least once a year and more often in places with industrial pollutants or heavy salt air. For the glass behind the screens, the same company tells owners to avoid power washers and other pressurized cleaning tools, and recommends cleaning at least every three months in coastal areas. Since a clean pane behind a gritty screen is dirty again after the first afternoon storm, it makes sense to put both on the same calendar.

On a two-story home, screen cleaning becomes a ladder job, and that is where the real risk sits. NIOSH reports that more than 100 people die each year in the United States from ladder-related falls and thousands more are injured, and that about 40 percent of cases involve an extension ladder sliding out at the base because it was set at the wrong angle. Its guidance is to set an extension ladder at about 75 degrees, keep three points of contact, and avoid carrying loads that could affect balance.

A full-size screen held in one hand on a ladder is exactly that kind of load. Many upper-floor screens on Naples homes can be released from inside the room instead, and that is the first thing we check. Where they cannot, the screen comes down with two people working together rather than one person balancing it on the rungs.

With a screen laid flat in good light, problems that are invisible from indoors become obvious: small tears at the corners, spline that has shrunk and pulled away from the channel, bent rails, and white corrosion where salt has sat on the aluminum. We set those screens aside and tell you before they go back in, so you can decide on a rescreen rather than discover the gap when the no-see-ums arrive.

Screens on the shaded sides of a house tend to hold a grey film longer than the sunny ones. UF/IFAS Extension notes that mildew needs moist, warm air and can grow where light is low and air circulation is poor, which is a fair description of a screen tucked behind a hedge or under a deep soffit. Those are the screens that get a second pass with the brush before rinsing.