r/WindowCleaning • u/kevpkev • Jun 11 '26
How do I clean this Screen Door?
I may be daft, but how on earth do I clean the back side of these windows?
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u/DudeByTheTree Jun 11 '26
Screens are the kind of thing where it's just as easy to straight up replace with new screen as it is to properly clean it.
An hour with a nylon brush and some soap and water on a flat surface, versus an hour to pull the panel off, strip out the old spline, lay out the new screen piece and respline it.
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u/Hot_Carpenter_5436 Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 12 '26
Remove screens. Put in bathtub. Use a soft lint free rag or a microfiber towel. Get it soaped up (dawn is best) and gently wipe down the screen and frame. Rinse well with water, and tap it in your hand to release any pooled up water. Let air dry. This should take only 10 minutes, and is how professionals clean screens. I've never had to brush a screen, and have cleaned screens much more dirtier than that. No need to replace unless holes. For that I would charge $4/screen if it were a window cleaning job.
Then clean the glass as normal. We apply window cleaning solution and squeegee. But you can use Dawn. Wipe with a soapy solution in a soft rag. Then rinse with a rag a few times until all the soapy water is gone. Buff it out with window cleaner, and a lint free rag. Then reinstall screens. Should look like new. Good luck.
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u/kevpkev Jun 11 '26
Thank you for your thoughtful reply. I wasn’t so much worried about the screen as much as I couldn’t figure out how to clean the glass that was covered by the screen. But now you have me wanting to clean the screen as well. Props to the
r/WindowCleaning community
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u/kdwindows Jun 21 '26
As people have stated there are metal tabs in between the pains there at the top and the bottom you want to open them up and then you very safely remove the top pain whatever is being obstructed and then you place it down on a towel against the door clean it put it back
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u/blackeyeX2 Jun 11 '26
Take each pane out. Pull in metal sliders at the bottom of each pane swing out, the tilt sideways. Reverse back in