This video provides step-by-step instructions on how to remove a window screen from a house. It is part 1 of 2 instructional videos and aims to equip you with the knowledge to tackle the process. To remove a tight-fitting screen, press your right hand thumb on the lower right side of the screen frame and gently push the screen into the frame recess. This will move the screen slightly into the frame by depressing the screen’s hidden “half moon shaped tension”.
Following this, fully open the window and press the top corner of the screen into the frame to depress the hidden spring. Pull the screen tab on the opposite side, and the top portion of the screen should pop out. Removing an old window screen without tabs is simple, as long as you have a flathead screwdriver or a butter knife. The most popular window replacement screens material is fiberglass, which is flexible and easy to install.
Some styles of window screens can come off from outside but are few and far between. On slider screens, most have adjustment screws located about an inch from the bottom on all four corners. Open the window fully, find the screen tabs, push them inward while pulling them toward you, pop the screen free, and pivot to remove.
To remove a screen from a double-hung window, tilt both sashes down, raise the screen, compress the springs, and pry the frame out slightly. Apply minimal pressure to create enough space to compress the spring with your fingers and remove the screen.
📹 How To Remove A Window Screen
I show you how to remove a screen from a modern vinyl single hung window. Also good for a double hung window. Amazon …
📹 How to remove a window screen from the outside.
Instructions on how to remove a window screen for window cleaning from the outside of a house.
I’m a new home owner, the last 2 years in my home i have had filthy windows because I thought I couldn’t remove the screen to clean the inside thoroughly. low an behold while perusal you in this article an how you used the side clips to take out the window I went an observed my windows if I had the same style. I DO!!!! THIS HAS made my entire life!!!! THANK YOU!!!!
just spent 20 minutes trying to figure out how to remove my screen and then finally decided to google it and most results were for screens with pull tabs and i was 5 seconds away from just destroying the screen and buying a new one when I found your article…..thank you for saving my money and my sanity.
This is an excellent article! Thanks for showing what to do so clearly and easily! I’d just about given up hope on getting to the screens and fixing them or patching them up. Just a note for those who may have a different style of screen than what’s shown here: your screen may not have tabs to push. Instead, it may have 2 thin flexible bands of metal on the left or right hand side of the screen, which you can’t see because they’re hidden in the track. To get the screen out of the window frame, push the screen towards those bands. I.e., if the bands are on the left-hand side, push the screen to the left. If they’re on the right, push towards the right. (This may take some trial and error, since you can’t see them.) As you push, the metal bands that are nestled in the track will compress and you’ll be able to (gently) maneuver the screen free.
omg thank you so much!!! I tried and tried to get my window to slide all the way up but it wouldnt, so the very top part of my window screen just couldnt be pulled away! Ive never seen windows that did this before LOL….i tried it just now and screamed in joy! Thanks again! I wanted to put a bird feeder outside my top floor window and now I can!
Good article bro I broke my screens trying to remove them yeah I know I’m a dumbass but tomorrow I’m cleaning mother n laws and can’t break her screens shit I’ll never hear the end of it and the wife will have me on lock down. lol, I’m not really worried. There are no screens left on the windows at my house.😁
I’ve searched for this last year, and the article that I found last year of a professional painter just jimmying out the screens that I stumbled across had me thinking you just had to ‘man up’ and wiggle the frame a bit to get it loose. I had zero idea that the windows opened with those thumb slides on the top of my window (We actually have the exact same vinyl windows!) and ruined one of my screens last year. I’m amazed that I was able to get one windows screen removed and replaced without incident in hindsight. Thank you for the article!
i guess my vinyl windows aren’t new enough–1999. the screens have no locking tabs to make them easily removable. there is a permanent tab going across the top which the screen seats in. i think the only way to get it out is to be outside, and to push the bottom of the frame inside. sad no one seems to talk about this type of window, because i’d imagine it is pretty damn common. there could have been a small thin sheet metal tab inserted under the screen, when the screen was installed, so that you could pull it back inside. simple enough to cut and bend myself.
Don’t have any of those mine just sit in the track and you just lift them up but they won’t go up far enough and I don’t have any pins I don’t have any tabs! They are only three years old all new custom windows and the screens don’t have any kind of pins or tabs I can’t get them out without tearing the screen up
Trying to hang up some dang Christmas decorations. I don’t see any tabs anywhere! Based on what you’re saying, it’s a single hung bay window; so basically three screens I can’t get out. I can see it’s not actually glued (or whatever) together (was starting to think it must be. And i’m in rental so… y’know… lol), because there’s a spot that’s bent out a little. What the heck am I missing, please?!