Durham Window Pros provides professional window screens and rescreening in Durham, NC for residential and commercial properties across Durham County and the northern Triangle. Screens are the smallest job on this list and one of the more useful ones. We take it. A house full of torn or missing screens is a house where nobody opens a window in April, which in Durham is the best month for it.
Rescreening an existing frame is usually the whole answer. If the aluminum or roll-formed frame is straight and the corner keys are intact, we pull the old spline, stretch new mesh and roll fresh spline in, and the screen is as good as it ever was for a small fraction of a new one. Bring us six and we will do them in an afternoon.
Mesh choice is worth thirty seconds of thought. Standard charcoal fiberglass is the default: it disappears visually better than silver, it flexes instead of creasing, and it is cheap. Aluminum mesh holds its shape better and resists a cat, but it dents permanently and shows every knock. For a ground-floor opening with animals or children, the heavier polyester pet mesh is the practical answer.
Two specialist meshes come up here often enough to mention. Fine no-see-um mesh keeps out the smallest insects and, in exchange, cuts airflow noticeably; on a screened porch that is often worth it, on a bedroom window it usually is not. Solar screen fabric blocks a large share of incoming solar energy on a west elevation and darkens the room in proportion.
That solar screen point deserves an honest caveat, because it gets oversold. On an old single-glazed or clear double-glazed window on a hot Durham west wall, a solar screen makes a genuine difference and costs very little. On a modern low-E unit that is already rejecting most of the gain, it mostly makes the room dim. Ask what your glass is before buying screens to fix it.
Frames themselves are cheap to replace when they are past rescreening. We cut and key new frames to the actual opening rather than to a nominal size, which matters on the older Durham houses where no two openings on the same elevation are the same. Half screens for double-hungs, full screens, and roll-formed frames for casements that fit inside the interior stop.
Casement and awning screens are different animals and are frequently missing altogether, because they mount on the interior and get taken down and lost. They also need clearance for the operator arm to pass, so a generic frame will not do. We measure off the sash hardware, not the opening, and fit them so the crank still turns cleanly.
None of this is a big enough job to make a quarter. We do it because the same customers call us later about glass, and because a company that will not take a screen job is telling you something about the jobs it will take. Ask us for screens and we will price them properly and turn up.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — polyamide strut thermal breaks, steel lintels and relieving angles, through-wall flashing and weep tubes, pultruded composite sash sections, warm-edge stainless spacers, laminated acoustic interlayers — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Durham and nearby communities including Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough, Efland.
What We Handle
Everything our window screens and rescreening in Durham covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of window screens and rescreening work in Durham, NC. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- window screens Durham NC
- screen repair Durham County
- rescreening windows Durham
- custom window screen fabrication NC
- aluminum screen frame replacement
- fiberglass screen mesh charcoal
- pet resistant screen mesh Durham
- solar screen fabric windows
- no see um screen mesh
- screen door repair Durham NC
- half screen double hung
- casement screen replacement Durham
- screen spline replacement
- pollen season screens Durham
- porch screen panel replacement
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Durham services.
Materials, equipment and how we do window screens and rescreening
The difference between window screens and rescreening that lasts and window screens and rescreening that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with polyamide strut thermal breaks, steel lintels and relieving angles, through-wall flashing and weep tubes, pultruded composite sash sections, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Durham job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. Years of window work in Durham County and the northern Triangle means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do window screens and rescreening outside Durham
Durham Window Pros covers Durham and the surrounding communities of Durham County and the northern Triangle. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Window Screens and Rescreening in Chapel Hill, NC — Orange County, population 61,960 at the 2020 census
- Window Screens and Rescreening in Carrboro, NC — Orange County, population 21,295 at the 2020 census
- Window Screens and Rescreening in Hillsborough, NC — Orange County, population 9,660 at the 2020 census
- Window Screens and Rescreening in Efland, NC — Orange County, population 852 at the 2020 census
- Window Screens and Rescreening in Gorman, NC — Durham County, population 1,104 at the 2020 census
- Window Screens and Rescreening in Rougemont, NC — Durham County, population 1,001 at the 2020 census
Start on the Durham Window Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Durham Chooses Durham Window Pros
- ✓We identify the wall before we name a product. A punched opening in a brick bearing wall takes a different unit, a different anchor and a different water detail than a stud wall, and the quote says which one you have.
- ✓North Carolina exempts window and door replacement from the building permit below forty thousand dollars, which means no inspector ever looks at it. We put the flashing sequence and the anchor spacing in the written proposal so there is a record.
- ✓Openings are measured at head, centre and sill and checked on both diagonals. In converted mill and warehouse buildings the difference across one opening is routinely more than the tolerance a stock unit allows for.
- ✓We quote laminated glass for noise and forced entry rather than impact packages for a debris region Durham is not in. If you want the acoustic benefit we will price the interlayer; we will not price a hazard you do not have.
The standards behind window screens and rescreening
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The window screens and rescreening work we do in Durham follows published industry standards: NFRC sets the U-factor and SHGC ratings on every window label, and ENERGY STAR defines the efficiency thresholds by climate zone. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.
Every window screens and rescreening project in Durham gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (844) 511-2320 for a free window screens and rescreening free estimate in Durham, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.