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.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Needles
• Threads
• Scissors
• 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.

on 11/22/2005 Decorate and patch at the same time. Double your patch material and cut out a pattern, such as a flower, an animal, a bird. Glue (of your choice) for stability, then sew around it for longevity.

on 11/22/2005 Cut a piece of matching screen,
which you may obtain from a hardware store. Cut to a little more than the size of the hole.
Using fabric glue, place on outer edges of patch. Place over hole. Mine have lasted 5 years and they do not need redoing.