Screen panel torn loose in one corner, patch it or call the guy

Started by Chuck Weaver · · 1 reply
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Had a gust come through last week off the gulf and now I've got one panel on the cage flapping loose at the top corner, maybe eight inches of it pulled away from the frame. Rest of the screen's fine, this is the only spot.

I'm handy enough but I've never messed with rescreening anything, and I keep going back and forth on whether this is a ten dollar spline roller job or something where I just call the screen guy and eat the cost. Worried if I botch it the whole panel lets go next storm.

Anybody patched a corner like this themselves, or is it one of those jobs that looks simple till you're up on the ladder fighting the spline. Trying to get ahead of it before rainy season really kicks in down here. Good luck with it, whatever you all decide on yours.

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no cage or screen enclosure here so cant speak to the spline side, but eight inches loose at a corner sounds like exactly the kind of thing that seems fine until wind gets under it wrong and takes the whole panel. if you're already debating calling the guy that's usually your gut telling you something, i'd rather eat the cost than be up a ladder mid storm season finding out the hard way.