Window Screen Cleaning in Galisteo
The Galisteo Basin produces fine red silt in quantity and the village sits directly in it. Screens load quickly and, in deep-set openings, they hold that silt in a pocket that doesn't clear itself. We hand-wash each screen off the window.
Because the openings are recessed, the screens here sit sheltered from rain but fully exposed to blown silt — the worst combination. They never get even the partial rinse that a flush-mounted screen gets during a storm.
What's Included
- Careful removal of all screens
- Hand-washing with soft brush and cleaning solution
- Thorough rinse to remove all soap, dust, and debris
- Inspection for torn mesh or damaged frames
- Proper reinstallation — every screen back where it belongs
- Available as part of the 5-in-1 Scrub Down bundle
Fine red silt passes into the weave
The silt the Galisteo Basin moves is fine enough to pass partway into a screen's weave rather than resting on its face, which is exactly why brushing a screen in place does so little. The material is already inside the mesh. Deeply recessed adobe openings compound it by sheltering the screen from the rain that would otherwise rinse some of it away.
Washed out, then back in its own opening
We take the screens down and wash them off the building so the silt leaves the weave instead of being driven further in or onto the glass behind. Both faces are brushed and rinsed until the runoff is clean. Hard water deposits on the frames are treated in the same pass, and each screen returns to the opening it came from — in older adobe work, openings are rarely interchangeable.
Pricing
Screen cleaning is $3 per screen, or bundled in the 5-in-1 Scrub Down starting at $100.
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Common Questions
Recessed openings shelter them from rain while still catching wind-driven silt, so nothing ever rinses them. They need washing off the window.
Two to three times a year, matched to the window schedule.
Yes — the reveal and sill are cleaned along with the screen and glass, since that's where the silt actually sits.