Vintage Screen Replacement
6 Materials
$20
1 Day
Medium
If you live in an old house, chances are you have some old windows with old screens...The wooden ones that have strips of wood around them? They are a whole different story when it come to replacing the damaged screens. Take a look:
In addition to some holes, they probably also have some 'extra paint', like 75 years worth??
Time to get to work. This is what I did:
The first order of business was removing the thin moldings around the screen - no rubber spline here, folks, this is VINTAGE! The goal was to remove it without cracking, splitting, or breaking it, soooo, I started by scoring through the 75 layers of paint...
...and gently lifting the moldings:
A few of the finishing nails stayed put, so they had to be pulled out, along with the staples - there must have been 100!
After the old screen was removed, the frame and moldings were scraped, painted and left to dry:
It was finally time to rescreen! The new screening was layed across the frame, stapled, stretched, and stapled again.
The screen was trimmed and the freshly painted moldings were reattached:
The screen was finished! This was the screen for the front door. It was an old wood storm door - So much character!
For more info on our vintage window and screens and why we didn't replace them, head on over to the blog. We love having visitors at the Cottage!
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