That guy at the shop who showed me his burned screens

He said 'just use dawn and hot water but scrub like you mean it,' and after 3 ruined screens of my own, I finally saw my mistake was rushing the rinse, so what's your go-to trick for reclaiming without a pressure washer?

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river_rivera4519d ago

The "scrub like you mean it" part is real but the rinse is where everyone cheats, and I swear that same thing shows up everywhere in life. People rush the boring last step of everything, like they think the finish line is the hard part when really it's the simple part at the end that decides if it works. My go-to without a pressure washer is a pump sprayer full of hot water, blast the screen from both sides while it's still in the sink, then flip it and hit the other side before anything dries. Standing water is your enemy, so I keep the screen wet the whole time and never let it sit. It sounds dumb but I also count to thirty on each side of the rinse, just so my hands don't decide we're done early.

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reese_wood5519d ago

That "standing water is your enemy" line is the part that got me, because I never thought about it that way but it makes total sense. If the screen sits wet with a film of dirty water on it, you're basically letting the junk settle back into the mesh instead of carrying it away. My question is how do you handle the frame edges and corners? That's where I always end up with a little gray ring that comes back a week later, and I can never tell if it's leftover gunk I missed in the rinse or just the screen doing its normal thing over time. Do you hit the corners extra or just trust the thirty count to cover the whole thing?

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