The spiders love the inside of the screens on our patio doors, but we don't love inviting them in every time we close the screens. After wrangling multiple wolf spiders back outside, I decided it was time to remove and clean the screens.
Our screens have rollers on the top and bottom. There are adjustment screws at each corner to raise or lower the rollers. Easy enough, loosen the screws, slide the putty knife in along the bottom edge to push the rollers up, and pull the bottom edge out of the track. Except there's one important thing:
Loosen the screws just enough that you can remove the screen!
Wanting to make sure the rollers would retract, I over-loosened the screws and they fell out when I removed the screen. Didn't seem like a big deal until I went to re-install them & realized that re-threading the screws was non-trivial. In fact, it requires partially removing the screen and disassembling the frame. Doh! I confess to giving up and taking them to the local screen shop. Turned out to be a wise decision--for $15, Templeton Glass saved me a considerable amount of frustration.
Tools Required: Thin putty knife, Philips screwdriver
Project Time: About an hour
Difficulty Level: Easy-Moderate
PITA Rating: Low-Moderate (as long as you don't over-loosen the screws!)
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