Many homeowners diligently clean their windows to enjoy clear views, but sometimes window screens might not get the same attention. Keeping screens clean is just as important if you want to maximize the benefits of sparkling windows.
Window screens serve a crucial role beyond just blocking flies—they act as a shield against various outdoor pests, including mosquitoes and wasps. Regular maintenance of your window screens can help ensure these pests stay outside, where they belong. Let’s explore more reasons why it’s beneficial to keep your screens in excellent condition.
Maintaining Your Window Screens
Keeping unwanted insects out of your home is only one reason to maintain and clean your window screens. Here are some other vital reasons:
1. Maximize Your Home’s Curb Appeal
When you put your home on the market, realtors often suggest that you replace your screens. Why? They know damaged or dirty screens make buyers think, If they didn’t take care of their screens, they probably didn’t take care of other things either. Windows and window screens are an integral part of your home’s curb appeal, and therefore contribute directly to its value.
Takeaway: First impressions last, and clean screens make your sparkling windows look even better. They indicate you care about the details of your home.
2. Keep Dirt Off Your Windows
Clean window screens not only enhance your home’s curb appeal but also help prevent dirt and debris from accumulating on your window glass. Dirty or clogged screens can allow splashes of muddy water during rain to reach the glass. By keeping your screens clean, rainwater can pass through more easily, helping reduce the amount of dirt that reaches your windows, and keeping them looking bright and fresh.
Takeaway: Clean screens help maintain your windows’ appearance by minimizing dirt and debris buildup and keep windows from looking drab.
3. Protect Your Windows and Reduce Heat Loss
While features like Low-E coatings and insulated frames do most of the work in reducing heat transfer, clean screens play a supporting role in protecting your windows’ energy efficiency. Screens act as a barrier to pests that can damage window frames, creating gaps where heat can escape. Insects, carpenter ants, and even rodents can compromise the integrity of your windows, reducing insulation and driving up energy costs. Keeping your screens clean and intact helps preserve your windows and maintain a warm, energy-efficient home.
Takeaway: Clean screens not only keep pests out but also help protect your windows’ energy efficiency, ensuring a cozy and comfortable home this winter
4. Prevent Moisture Intrusion
When it comes to your window frame, if screens are in good working order and fit well into their designated location, they help deflect rain from penetrating places it shouldn’t go. When water isn’t deflected, it finds a way in and can contribute to unhealthy mold growth, rot, and deterioration of your window frames.
Takeaway: Don’t risk the possibility of costly moisture intrusion. Take time to clean your screens!
5. Contribute to the Protection of Your Home
When strong winds blow through the area, debris can be launched into the air suddenly. If an item strikes your window due to high winds, it can cause glass to break and the window to shatter, compromising your home’s safety and opening it up to outdoor temperatures. Window screens offer an extra line of defense against storm damage. But if your screens are old, brittle, and worn out, they don’t create an effective barrier against the unexpected. Keeping your window screens clean and well maintained helps safeguard your windows from harm.
Takeaway: Worn out, fragile, poorly maintained window screens won’t do the job of providing an extra layer of protection against the damage high winds can cause when they launch debris toward your windows.
6. Increase Indoor Air Quality
How often do you replace the air filter in your home? Can you imagine leaving a filter in your HVAC unit indefinitely? When you don’t clean your window screens, it’s like leaving a dirty filter for all the “fresh” air to enter your home through. When screens are dusty or dirty, they negatively impact the air that comes into your home.
Takeaway: Your home’s indoor air quality will be as clean as possible when you keep your screens clean. Don’t allow mold, mildew, or dirt to linger on your screens. Do yourself and your family a favor, and provide clean air indoors by keeping your screens clean.
7. Save Money on Repairs
Proper window screen maintenance will extend their lifespan. You’ll lower your repair costs, the screens will last longer, and you can wait more time to replace them by simply keeping them clean and well maintained.
Takeaway: When you clean your screens and stay up-to-date on their upkeep, they will last longer and need fewer repairs.
8. Increase Efficiency with Clean Screens
Dirty window screens are not efficient, particularly if your windows are open and you’re endeavoring to circulate fresh air in your interior. Dirt and grime decrease the size of the openings in your screen, allowing less of the refreshing breezes in that you could be enjoying indoors.
Takeaway: You’ll enjoy greater amounts of fresh air when you keep screens clean and well maintained.
Enjoy Beautiful Replacement Windows Installed by Our Experienced Team
Don’t miss out on the modern aesthetic, energy efficiency, and comfort new windows add to your home. At Presidential Exteriors, we install our exclusive line of premium windows—the Presidential Series Windows from Vytex. They are ahead of their time in energy efficiency, boasting National Fenestration Rating Council (NFRC) ratings demonstrating that they are ENERGY STAR 7.0 certified. Meeting these stricter than 6.0 standards means you can expect to use significantly less energy throughout the year.
Our commitment to quality doesn’t end when a remodeling project is finished. We conduct Quality Assurance follow-ups to ensure your satisfaction and address any additional needs you may have around your home. If your window screens are broken, reach out to our team to replace them. Learn more about how our window services can enhance your home’s beauty, value, and energy efficiency.
