How to Repair Window Screens

Sometimes it can be less expensive and take less time to repair a slightly damaged window screen than to start from scratch with a new one. Here are some quick steps for getting the job done.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Needles
• Threads
• Scissors
• Screen Wire

1. Thread a needle with nylon thread.
2. Cut a piece of screen large enough to cover the hole. New screen can be purchased at your local lumberyard, hardware store or glass shop. If you're facing a gash and not a hole, match the torn edges as closely as possible.
3. Remove the damaged screen in its frame from the window or door.
4. Stand or sit where you can reach both sides of the screen.
5. Sew on the patch in small overhand stitches, working through the screening. If sewing a gash, sew as if sewing a seam in fabric.
6. Tie off the thread.
7. Cut away stray strands of screening and thread tails.
8. Place screen back in door or window.

Tips & Warnings

• If the damage is large, it may be just as easy and cheap to replace a screen as it is to sew one up. Badly damaged screening can be saved to make patches for small repairs.

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