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Monday, August 23, 2010

Saturday night project

When we moved in, there were a couple windows that are missing the window screens. Not sure what happened to them but it prevented us from using those windows. We never open those windows to avoid having bugs and insects getting in.

John has never replaced window screens before but thought it would be an easy project to tackle ourselves instead of buying new screens.We went to Home Depot to grabbed some tools, and stuff we needed to replace the screens. We got a spline roller, rubber spline and a roll of screen enough to cover 2 windows.

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He cut enough screen to cover the window frame. Then stapled it down on the 4 corners to prevent it from moving around. He made sure that the screen is stretched tight around the frame. Then, he laid the rubber spline around it and rolled them into the groove around the window.

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Once that’s done, he cut off the excess screen and voila! It’s done! It is amazingly easy and it took no time for him to replace 2 windows screens.

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Finally, he popped the frame back into place. Now we are able to open the windows for some fresh air. =)

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