Screen cleaning and repair in Johns Creek, GA
A torn or sagging screen is the thing you look past every day and never get around to fixing. In Johns Creek that adds up fast, because these are big houses with a lot of windows, and the screens have been coming out and going back in since the subdivisions off Medlock Bridge and State Bridge went up in the 1990s. Spline dries out. Mesh stretches and rips. A dog goes through a patio screen. We fix all of it on your existing frames, rescreening from $49 a screen, so the windows look right and the house breathes the way it should again.
Torn, sagging, and popped-out screens in Johns Creek homes
Johns Creek became a city in 2006, but most of its neighborhoods are older than that. The subdivisions along Medlock Bridge, State Bridge, and Abbotts Bridge Road filled in through the 1990s, and the homes in St. Ives, Rivermont, and the streets down toward the Chattahoochee are pushing thirty years now. That shows up in the screens more than almost anywhere else in the house. Aluminum screen frames come out and go back in every time someone cleans a window or opens up for spring, and each cycle racks them a little further out of square. The rubber spline that holds the mesh in the frame channel dries and shrinks in the Georgia sun until the mesh sags and pulls loose at a corner. Add a stray elbow, a storm gust, or a pet, and you get the torn, baggy, half-fallen-out screens we see on so many Johns Creek windows. A dirty screen makes clean glass look dirty, a baggy one drags down the curb appeal of the whole front elevation, and a torn one lets bugs in while it does it. The good news is that almost none of it needs new screens. The frames are usually fine. It is the mesh and the spline that have given up, and those we replace on the frame you already own. We start by pulling and labeling each screen so it goes back in the window it came from.
Rescreening your existing frames for $49 a screen
Rescreening is the fix for the large majority of screen problems, and it costs a lot less than most people expect. We take the screen off, cut out the old spline, strip the tired or torn mesh, and re-lay fresh mesh pulled tight and even across the frame before rolling in new spline to lock it. What you get back is a flat, wrinkle-free screen with no sag and no gaps, on the same frame that came off the window, for $49 each. We stock standard fiberglass mesh for the everyday jobs, and we can go finer to keep more pollen out of the house or heavier with a pet-resistant weave on the screens that take abuse. Spline is the quiet villain in a lot of these repairs. It hardens and contracts in the sun, and once it loses its grip the mesh has nothing holding its tension, which is why screens that were never touched start sagging after ten or twelve years. Fresh spline alone often saves a screen that looked ready for the trash. Every screen gets quoted before we start, so twenty screens never turn into a mystery invoice, and each repaired screen goes back in its own window the same visit. No dropping them at a shop and waiting a week for a call.
Pet damage and mesh that stands up to it
Dogs and cats are hard on screens, and patio and door-height screens take the worst of it. A dog that wants out leans, scratches, and eventually punches a hole straight through the thin fiberglass mesh a screen ships with from the factory. Cats climb it like a ladder. Once the weave is torn it only grows, and a flapping corner is an open invitation to every bug along the Chattahoochee. Standard mesh was never built for that kind of traffic. When we rescreen a screen a pet has gotten to, we can install a pet-resistant mesh instead, a much heavier weave that shrugs off claws and holds up to a leaning dog far longer than the original. It is the same rescreening process and the same per-screen price, just with tougher material in the channel. We use it most on sliding patio door screens and the lower windows a dog can reach, and we leave the standard or finer pollen mesh on the upper windows where pets are not a factor. You do not have to upgrade the whole house. We match the mesh to how each screen actually gets used, and we tell you the small price difference before any of it happens.
Bent frames, stripped corners, and screens that will not stay put
Sometimes the mesh is fine and the frame is the problem. A screen that rattles in the wind, leaves a gap at one corner, or will not seat in its track is usually racked out of square rather than torn. Aluminum frames bend easily. A fall during a cleaning, a hard gust, or simply years of pulling the screen out and pushing it back will knock a frame out of true, and once that happens it wears against the window track and sill every time it moves and lets insects in through the gaps. We straighten bent rails, re-square corners, and swap the broken plastic corner inserts that let a frame hold its shape, so the screen fits the way it did when the windows were new. Where a frame is creased, corroded, or cracked past saving, we say so and quote a replacement instead of charging you to repair something that will fail again in a season. Most of this frame work happens right at your house in a single visit, no shop trip involved, and we test every repaired screen back in its own window before we call it done. A screen that seats cleanly and slides right is the difference between a window you are glad to open and one you leave shut all summer.
Cleaning or repair, and telling you which you actually need
Not every screen needs repair, and part of doing this right is saying so. When we pull your screens during a visit we sort them into three plain piles: screens that just need a wash, screens worth rescreening at $49, and the few where a new frame beats a repair. You get that read with prices before we touch anything, and there is no charge for the look. Screen cleaning itself is $5 a screen on a window cleaning visit. We take each one down, wash it flat with a soft brush and a mild solution that lifts the pollen out of the weave instead of pushing it deeper the way a garden hose does, then rinse and dry it before it goes back up. Clean screens are not a small thing here, because Johns Creek pollen and the river-corridor humidity cake the mesh gray, and that grime bleeds onto the exterior of the glass with the first rain. The visit carries a $175 minimum, and screen work, cleaning and repair both, counts toward it beside the window washing. Standard panes are $8 to $12 each, hard water glass is $25, a screen wash is $5, and a rescreen is $49. Set the house on a recurring visit and you take 5, 10, or 15 percent off, scaled to how often we come. It is the same look-first, no-upsell approach we have run on since 2009.
Screen repair and window cleaning in Johns Creek
Screen repair is part of our full window cleaning in Johns Creek. Read about our general screen repair service, or see the same service in Cumming and Alpharetta.
Screen repair questions from Johns Creek homeowners
What Johns Creek families ask before booking screen service.
Can you repair a torn screen without replacing the whole frame?
Almost always, yes. Most tears, sags, and holes come from tired spline or stretched mesh, and both of those we replace right on your existing aluminum frame. Rescreening gives you a tight, flat screen again for $49 apiece, no new frame needed. We only recommend a replacement frame when the aluminum is bent past straightening or the corners no longer hold, and we tell you that honestly instead of selling you a frame you do not need.
How much does screen repair cost in Johns Creek?
Rescreening a window screen is $49 each, mesh and spline included, done on your own frame. If your screens are dirty rather than damaged, screen cleaning runs $5 each as part of a window cleaning visit. Any visit carries a $175 minimum, and screen work counts toward it. We quote every screen before we start, so a house full of them never turns into a surprise total. On a recurring schedule the whole visit comes with 5, 10, or 15 percent off.
My dog clawed through the patio screen. Can you fix that?
Yes, and we can make the fix last longer than the original. When we rescreen a door-height or patio screen that takes claw traffic, we can swap the standard mesh for a heavier pet-resistant material that stands up to dogs and cats far better than the thin factory weave. It costs a little more than standard mesh, and we tell you the difference before we do the work.
Do you have to rescreen the whole house, or just a few?
Just the ones that need it. We sort your screens into three honest piles: the ones that only need washing, the ones worth rescreening at $49, and the few where a new frame makes more sense than a repair. You get that breakdown with prices before we touch anything. Plenty of Johns Creek customers have us handle two or three problem screens and simply wash the rest.
Can you match my existing screen frames and mesh?
In most cases, yes. Standard fiberglass mesh and common aluminum frame colors are what most Johns Creek homes already have, and we stock the usual options so a repaired screen does not stand out next to the others. If you want to upgrade every screen to a finer pollen-blocking weave or a pet-resistant mesh at the same time, we can do that too and keep the look consistent across the house.
Get Your Johns Creek Screens Fixed Right
Torn mesh, sagging screens, or a frame that will not seat? Call (470) 333-2525 or email Alexusbestcompany@gmail.com for a free screen assessment in Johns Creek. Family-owned, insured, and rescreening from $49.