Is there a way to repair broken window screens?

Question

The screens are not ripped anywhere. They have been pushed out by my children. Is there a way to get them back in?

Answer 1

There is a tool that stores like Lowe's sells for a few bucks that will do that.

You take down the screen frame and put it on the floor. You will usually see a grayish plastic rope that goes all around the edge of the screen. That is pushed down into a groove on the frame to hold the screening in place. Use a toothpick or a tweezers to grab that plastic rope and pull it completely out of the groove. Then lay the screening neatly over the frame where it belongs. Push an end of the rope down over the screening at the frame's groove. Now use the roller on the tool to squash the rope down into the groove. Keep rolling over the groove until all the rope is in place and all of the screen is tightly held again.

Save the tool for next time because the kids will do it again.

Answer 2

If the screen is intact (not torn) you can

If it is an alumium frame with the plastic cord that holds it in place, go to the hardware store and buy the tool for reinserting it. It looks something like a pizza cutter (two rollers, one on each end, one concave tip, one convex tip). Remover the cord where the wire has pulled loose, reinsert the wire, use the convex wheel to insert the wire tightly, lay the cord in teh channel and use the convex wheel to isert it.

Answer 3

of course. just take out the rubber, strecth it back out and push the rubber back into place. goodluck.