How to Clean Pool Enclosure Screens

Dirty pool enclosure screens are unattractive and unhealthy.

Dirty pool enclosure screens are not only unattractive, but unhealthy as well. Caked-on bugs, dust, dirt and other debris can cause your family and friend's allergies to flair up. Caked-on debris is also a breeding ground for mold and mildew to grow. To clean your pool enclosure screens, you don't have to take them down or pay someone to remove the dust, dirt and other debris. A simple soap solution, water and a brush will have the screens dirt free and like new.

Things You'll Need

• Water hose (with sprayer) or power sprayer
• Latex gloves
• Dishwashing detergent
• Warm water
• Bucket
• Soft bristle scrub brush

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Instructions

1. Remove any furniture and accessories from around the pool and the pool enclosure screens.

2. Spray down the pool enclosure screens with a water hose or a power sprayer set on a low PSI setting. Wear latex gloves to keep your hands from getting wet and dirty.

3. Mix 1 cup of dishwashing detergent and 1 gal. of warm water in a bucket.

4. Stir the soap solution with a soft bristle scrub brush.

5. Apply the soap solution to one area of the pool screen. Scrub the screen from side to side then up and down.

6. Re-dip the brush and continue cleaning the area until the debris is broken up.

7. Repeat steps 5 and 6 for the next area of the pool enclosure screen that needs cleaning.

8. Rinse the pool enclosure screens with a water hose or a power sprayer to remove the soap solution.

9. Repeat steps 5 through 8, if needed or if the pool enclosure screens are heavily soiled.

Tips & Warnings

• If mold and mildew is present on the pool enclosure screens and the pool screens are white, mix ½ cup of household bleach and 1 gal. of warm water in a bucket. Stir the bleach solution with a brush. Apply the solution to the screens and scrub the mold from side to side to break it up. Complete steps 5 through 8 to clean and remove any bleach residue from the screens.

• For non-white pool screens, scrub off the mold and mildew first with a dry brush then complete steps 5 through 8 to clean the screens.

• Bleach may discolor non-white pool screens.

References

• Summer Time Screen.com: Some Basic Care Guidelines And Frequently Asked Questions Regarding Pool Screen Enclosures

Resources

• Screenologist.Wordpress.com: Do it Yourself Screen Enclosure Repair -- Good Idea or Bad Idea?
• Pool Center.com: Pool Info