re-screening windows

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salty87

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i recently painted the exterior of my house. now the old screens on the windows look like junk. i got a quote from a local store to re-screen them and replace them. i only have 10- 48"x54" screens and they wanted $500 just to replace the screens, $650 if i want new frames. i think i'd rather just buy new windows since they come with new screens!

it doesn't look very hard to replace the screens, anyone ever done it? got any tips?
 
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Re: re-screening windows

It was many years ago, Salty, but I rescreened my 3/2 home in about 20 hours for about $50. That was in about 1974. Inflation would probably bring the cost of the tools and copper screening to a few hundred today.

Of course, if you used glass or other synthetic screening and didn't have to redo several in the learning process like I did I would bet that it could be done for little over a C-note.
 
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Re: re-screening windows

You can buy the tool to do it yourself, but Ace Hardware, etc will do it. It saves a bunch of throbbing veins in your forehead.
 
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Re: re-screening windows

$500? Is that for copper? It's easy to do with fiberglass screen but I have never done copper. You need a spline tool (looks like a double ended pizza cutter), spline and screen and you're in business...
 
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